Run a Maze vs Simple Marble Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Run a Maze
Navigate challenging mazes with a canine companion, utilizing power-ups to overcome obstacles and outsmart guard dogs. Compete for top scores on global leaderboards or strive to beat your personal best.
- Hundreds of unique mazes
- Power-ups like 'reveal key' and 'dog whistle'
- Compete on global leaderboards
- Beat personal best times
- Encounter guard dogs like Greta
- Distract guard dogs with treats
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Run a Maze is the most addictive maze running game out there! With 100s of unique mazes and amazing power-ups such as "reveal key", "mini map", "dog whistle" and "doggy treat", Run a Maze will have you running mazes for hours! Get your alias on the Run a Maze leader board by beating the top scores and displaying it on the world leader board for Run a Maze at runamaze.app! Or, of course, just beat your own personal best! That'll also be fun! Help Run a Maze's Tucker to run and reveal a maze, to find a hidden key and to escape in record time! In Run a Maze you have the option of using power-ups to help Tucker get through the maze! Watch out! In the harder levels of Run a Maze, Greta, the German Shepard will attack anybody that tries to pass her. In the "insane" level of Run a Maze, she will even sniff you out if you don't outsmart her! Oh, and did I mention... the harder the level, the more Gretas there are! Don't worry, though! Run a Maze has power-ups like "Doggy Treat" that would have all the Gretas distracted for a short period of time and allow Tucker to pass any of them. The "Dog Whistle" would make all the Gretas obedient for a short period of time, but don't let that fool you, though, you still won’t be able to pass her! Don't miss out! Get Run a Maze right now and don't forget to leave a review, we know you'd like it!
Simple Marble Run
Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.
- Customizable marble courses
- Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
- Marble throwing mechanic
- Truck collection and departure cycle
- Adjustable camera viewpoints
- Soothing ASMR-like experience
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Marble Run at 4.4 against Run a Maze's 3.0. Simple Marble Run also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 26 months) and ratings volume (263 vs 2). Run a Maze's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Marble Run holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Marble Run has 263 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Run a Maze ships an update every 26 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Run a Maze | Simple Marble Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.4 (263 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 263 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johnsonwalters (Pty) Ltd | monois Inc. |
Customer experience
Run a Maze
Simple Marble Run
In-app purchases
Run a Maze
No in-app purchases
Simple Marble Run
No in-app purchases
Questions
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