MouseBot vs Run Sausage Run!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MouseBot
Navigate a robotic mouse through treacherous mazes filled with mechanical traps and obstacles. Collect cheese to unlock new customizations and abilities in this fast-paced platforming adventure.
- 88 challenging mazes
- Hilarious cartoon destruction
- Unlock new abilities
- Collect cheese
- Customize MouseBot with skins
- Eye-popping cartoon visuals
- Multiple control options
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Guide MouseBot through mazes of fantastical mechanical mouse traps created by the cat scientists of CatLab. Dodge giant metal Kitty Krushers, leap over mouse-grinding Roller Graters, evade scary Mines and Lasers, and platform your way across pools of bot-melting Acid on an epic quest for cheese and freedom. Conquer 88 challenging platform-style levels as you delve deeper into the mysterious laboratories of CatLab and uncover the cats' nefarious plans. Collect epic piles of cheese, and transmogrify that cheese into new skins and accessories for your robotic mouse. MouseBot: Escape from CatLab is a zany and exciting platforming game that will test your reflexes, skills, timing, and love of cheese! GAME FEATURES • 88 challenging mazes filled with traps and obstacles. • Hilarious cartoon destruction! Try not to get crushed, stomped, zapped or blown to bits. • Unlock new abilities! Run, jump and transform for land and water! • Collect epic piles of cheese! • Win new skins and accessories to customize MouseBot! • Eye-popping cartoon visuals on iPhone, iPad and AppleTV • Control options include touch screen, simple and extended gamepads (and Siri remote on AppleTV.) • Earn achievements with Game Center, and stay synced with iCloud. CUSTOMER SUPPORT If you encounter a problem running the game, please visit us at: www.vectorunit.com/support STAY IN TOUCH Be the first to hear about updates, download custom images, and interact with the developers! Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VectorUnit Follow us on Twitter @vectorunit Visit our web page at www.vectorunit.com MouseBot is free to play but there are optional in-app purchases available.
Run Sausage Run!
Guide a sausage through an endless, hazardous kitchen environment. Avoid being sliced, chopped, burned, or smashed while collecting coins to unlock power-ups and new sausage skins. Enjoy a fast-paced, humorous escape experience.
- Endless running gameplay
- Multiple sausage characters
- Hazardous kitchen obstacles
- Coin collection for power-ups
- Unlockable sausage skins
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Run, Sausage, run! Hot diggity dog, that’s a fine lookin’ hot dog! You never sausage a sausage! (Get it? Saw such… sausage? Anyone?) Stop punning and start running! Play as the tasty sausage of your choice. Weisswurst or blutwurst, bacon or chocolate… even plumber or cowboy! Run through an endless path as you flex that hot-dog body and avoid getting sliced, chopped, burned or smashed! Tons of juicy sausages to choose from, tons of hot dog skins. Collect coins as you run for your sweet (or spicy) life to buy buns of steel and other cool powerups. To opt out of CrazyLabs sales of personal information as a California resident, please visit the settings page within this app. For more information visit our privacy policy: https://crazylabs.com/app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Run Sausage Run! at none against MouseBot's 13. Run Sausage Run! also leads on ratings volume (66K vs 1.2K) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. MouseBot sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Run Sausage Run! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Run Sausage Run! holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Run Sausage Run! has 66K ratings behind it against 1.2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of MouseBot's written reviews are positive against 80% of Run Sausage Run!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MouseBot ships an update every 4 months, Run Sausage Run! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MouseBot | Run Sausage Run! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (1.2K ratings) | 4.5 (66K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.7% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K | 66K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vector Unit | Crazy Labs |
Customer experience
MouseBot
Run Sausage Run!
User reviews
MouseBot
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 🎨 Charming graphics and visuals
- 🐁 Nostalgic and engaging mouse-themed experience
- 🔓 Fair monetization with no forced in-app purchases
Room to improve
- 🔁 Duplicate gear obtained from cheese purchases
- ⏱️ Limited lives system can be frustrating
- 🔍 Lack of new levels and content updates
- 🔧 Occasional bugs and glitches
Run Sausage Run!
From 66K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive
- 👍 Variety of skins and characters
- 👍 Challenging but enjoyable
- 👍 Good graphics and visuals
- 👍 Easy to pick up and play
Room to improve
- 🔍 Too many ads
- 🐛 Glitches and performance issues
- 🤔 Unbalanced difficulty progression
- 🤔 Limited game modes and content
- 🤔 Certain obstacles feel unfair
Bugs and requests
MouseBot
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress resets or disappears
- Unresponsive controls and inputs
- Crashes and freezes on certain devices
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and chapters
- Level editor and sharing functionality
- Customizable controls and button placement
- Infinite lives or reduced wait times
Run Sausage Run!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing and crashing on certain devices
- Inconsistent obstacle behavior and detection
- Achievements and progress not tracking properly
Requested features
5 requests- More game modes and levels
- Ability to customize obstacles
- Multiplayer or leaderboard features
- Reduce ads or add paid ad-free option
- Improve difficulty scaling and balancing
In-app purchases
MouseBot
- Cyber Skin Special$0.99
- Jet Pack Special$0.99
- A Pile of Power Tokens$1.99
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- Cyber Skin$1.99
- Red Fire Skin$1.99
- Jet Pack$1.99
- Angel Wings Special$1.99
- X-Ray Skin$1.99
- Arcade Mode$3.99
- Stacks of Power Tokens$4.99
- Go Premium$4.99
- Buckets of Power Tokens$9.99
- ACME Special! Crates of Power Tokens$19.99
Run Sausage Run!
No in-app purchases
