Backrooms Race vs Play Dead
Play Dead currently leads with 282 concurrent players against 116, a 2.4× advantage. On all-time peak the record belongs to Play Dead at 386 concurrent players, versus 292. Momentum favours Backrooms Race: -4.4% week over week versus -27.0% for Play Dead. Lifetime, Backrooms Race has more visits (130.8M vs 5.5M). Full side-by-side history for Backrooms Race and Play Dead is charted above.
🏆 Backrooms Race
116
playing now
292 24h peak · 130.8M visits
VS
[💀] Play Dead
282
playing now
386 24h peak · 5.5M visits
Player count history
Backrooms RacePlay Dead
Head to head
| Metric | Backrooms Race | Play Dead | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playing now | 116 | 282 | 166 (2.4×) |
| 24h peak | 292 | 386 | 94 |
| 24h average | 159 | 220 | 61 |
| 7-day peak | 292 | 386 | 94 |
| 7-day average | 129 | 168 | 39 |
| 30-day peak | 292 | 386 | 94 |
| All-time peak | 292 | 386 | 94 |
| 24h change | ▲ 39.5% | ▲ 83.3% | — |
| 7d change | ▼ 4.4% | ▼ 27.0% | — |
| Total visits | 130.8M | 5.5M | 125.2M (23.6×) |
| Visits (24h) | 23.6K | 29.7K | 6.1K |
| Visits (7d) | 132.8K | 187.6K | 54.8K |
| Favorites | 258.3K | 25.3K | 233K (10.2×) |
| Rating | 92.6% | 86.7% | — |
| Global rank (players) | #3,765 | #2,853 | of 7,866 |
| Trending score | 43.4 | 63.6 | — |
| Created | May 16, 2022 | May 25, 2026 | — |
| Genre | Simulation | Survival | — |
Other comparisons
Both games are sampled on the same schedule and plotted on a shared time axis, so the comparison is like for like. Peaks, averages and growth come from RoVitals's own recorded history — 11 days for Backrooms Race, 10 for Play Dead.