Comparison

School Maze vs SAKURA School Simulator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

School Maze

Navigate a massive gymnasium maze to find a key and reach the exit within a time limit. Interact with classmates to earn bonus points and achieve the goal together. A thrilling challenge awaits!

Highlights
  • Navigate a huge gymnasium maze
  • Find the key to unlock the exit
  • Race against the time limit
  • Interact with classmates for bonus points
  • Aim for the podium on the stage
Features
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Run through a huge maze in the gym! First find the key, let's head to the exit in a hurry. A Huge maze appeared in the gymnasium. Please aim the podium on the stage ran through a huge maze within the time limit. In order to open the gate of the maze exit, you must have the key that has fallen into the maze. First find the key, let's head to the exit in a hurry. Classmates also aim to escape the huge maze. Bonus points if the goal together call out to them. Let's call out as many of classmates. Ready for the huge maze?

About

SAKURA School Simulator

Experience simulated Japanese high school life in a fictional town. Interact with students, attend classes, and engage in various activities. The game blends realistic daily routines with fantastical elements, allowing for open-ended play with no set ending.

Highlights
  • Simulated Japanese high school life
  • Open fictional world
  • Character customization
  • Interactive NPCs
  • Attend school lessons
  • Earn in-game currency
  • Drive vehicles
Currently charting
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This game is a "school simulator game" which is made in Japan. The game is played in the small open fictional world "Sakura-town". We designed the game situations as if it is in a mixture world, that is the both of the situations in the real high school daily life in Japan and the situations which is shown in Japanese animations that sometimes contain very fantasistic elements. The half things you might see in this game will be really shown in japanese high school. In that sense, in this game, you can experience the simulated high school daily life in Japan as a student. This game is not an action and shooting game and so on but a simulator. Although we made violent actions and elements valid, but there are no descriptions of blood in the game. The people in the game world will be only fainted but will not be die. The concept of death does not exist in this game so that the fainted people will wake up next day, and they will hate you. You can do the actions below in the game. You can, control and change 4 players in the same stage (The two are valid after watching ADS.) choose avator cloths talk to students and other people choose the sentense for talking make friends and lovers through simulations attend the school lessons buy something and use by yourself or give it to other eat in sushi-bar earn money at car restore shop(a ADS. is shown.) drive a car untill be broken ride the atractions in the amusement park and so on. The above actions that you did will affect and simulate your playing in the various situations. There are no end in this game. Please make the situations as you like, and find favorite way for playing. We hope you will enjoy the game. The contents of this game will be added when we made the new game elements. The additional contents will be shown as a "new" context in this page. *NOTIFICATION Although we used the charactor models of AOI and TAICHI in this game, AOI is a NOT-FREE asset and TAICHI is a FREE asset. Everyone who want to make a game contents and so on can use these assets.

Screenshots

School Maze4 screens
SAKURA School Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SAKURA School Simulator at 84% against School Maze's 40%. SAKURA School Simulator also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). School Maze's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SAKURA School Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SAKURA School Simulator has 26K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of School Maze's written reviews are positive against 84% of SAKURA School Simulator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Maze ships an update every 3 months, SAKURA School Simulator weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 29, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
School Maze versus SAKURA School Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool MazeSAKURA School Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)4.3 (26K ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews84.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings226K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#188 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB353 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMASAHIRO MIZUTANIGARUSOFT K.K.

Customer experience

School Maze

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

SAKURA School Simulator

All ratings25,500 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews1,631 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral7.1%
Negative8.6%

Bugs and requests

School Maze

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SAKURA School Simulator

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Character customization reset after saving
  • Vehicles and characters glitching through walls
  • Inconsistent police and NPC reactions
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add multiplayer mode
  • Implement marriage and family features
  • Expand NPC behaviors and relationships
  • Introduce more buildings and locations
  • Allow customization of children characters
Show 3 more
  • Add skin tone and hair type options
  • Implement a phone system with texting
  • Introduce clubs, jobs, and school activities

In-app purchases

None

School Maze

No in-app purchases

None

SAKURA School Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Maze free?
School Maze is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SAKURA School Simulator free?
SAKURA School Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, School Maze or SAKURA School Simulator?
SAKURA School Simulator is rated higher. School Maze averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while SAKURA School Simulator averages 4.3 from 26K ratings.
Do School Maze or SAKURA School Simulator have ads?
Both School Maze and SAKURA School Simulator show ads.
Which is updated more often, School Maze or SAKURA School Simulator?
School Maze ships an update every 3 months, and SAKURA School Simulator weekly. Most recently, School Maze was updated on July 29, 2026 and SAKURA School Simulator on September 26, 2026.

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