Comparison

Case Closed vs Maze Slash

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

Head to head
About

Case Closed

Engage in a spy-themed puzzle adventure without time limits or in-app purchases. Guide your hero through challenging missions to collect points and close dossiers, ensuring global safety. The game offers a progressive difficulty curve with tutorials for new elements.

Highlights
  • Addictive puzzle gameplay
  • No time stress or lives system
  • Completely free with no ads
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Tutorials for new items
  • Walkthrough videos accessible
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Case Closed is an addictive puzzle game from 2020, designed to play in waiting rooms and other places, without any time stress or 'out of lives' messages or having to spend money on power-ups. The game is completely free with no advertisements, no banners, nothing. Our hero Casey, having completed 'Spy School' (see Case Open) is now a spy on a mission. His objective is to solve puzzles and close each dossier to help the world stay safe. He will encounter many difficulties and sometime these seem impossible to solve. Whereas in 'Spy School' the problems were static (no moving objects), in real life there are all sorts of things to interact with, and the mission space is often larger than the classroom settings from before. Goal: Solve 20 dossiers with each a number of missions In each mission guide Casey to the exit by collecting all required points. The game starts with easy levels and builds up to much more difficult levels. Every time a new item is introduced you'll get some tutorial missions. If you register you get 5 skip options which allows you to skip 5 missions of your choice, when you solve a previously skipped mission, you regain the skip. There are several walkthrough videos available on our website, accessable directly from the app by using the pause screen (click on the exit button in the right top when playing a mission). Every mission has been fully tested and can be solved, we guarantee it. We hope you enjoy the game, Jake Solutions

About

Maze Slash

Features
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Maze Slash is a tactical swipe puzzle — simple to pick up, hard to master. Each swipe sends your hero dashing in a straight line until a wall stops them, slashing every monster on the path. Solve 50+ handcrafted pixel-art dungeons, find the perfect order of slashes, and beat the boss — all offline, no wifi needed. Order matters. Direction matters. Every move counts. One wasted swipe and the room locks you in. WHAT YOU GET • 50+ handcrafted dungeon puzzles + a multi-HP boss to close Dungeon 1 • One-finger controls — swipe, dash, slash, repeat • Pure puzzle design: no random, no grind, just the right move • Undo button for the brave (and the over-confident) • Crisp pixel art with a CRT-style filter • Portrait, one hand, perfect for a 30-second break or a long session • 100% offline — no wifi, no ads tracking you MECHANICS Switches that open doors. Floor traps that punish lazy swipes. Shielded enemies you only kill from behind. A boss who jumps across the grid. Each level is a clean little brain teaser disguised as an action game. A dungeon crawler for puzzle players, an action game for tacticians. Start swiping.

Screenshots

Case Closed3 screens
Maze Slash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Case Closed at none against Maze Slash's 1. Case Closed also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence 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. Maze Slash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Case Closed asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Case Closed ships an update every 2 weeks, Maze Slash every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Case Closed versus Maze Slash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCase ClosedMaze Slash
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB258 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCornelis AertsLecoutre Ayrton

In-app purchases

None

Case Closed

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Maze Slash

One-time1
  • No ads$0.99

Questions

Is Case Closed free?
Case Closed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maze Slash free?
Maze Slash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Case Closed or Maze Slash have ads?
Maze Slash shows ads; Case Closed does not.
Which is updated more often, Case Closed or Maze Slash?
Case Closed ships an update every 2 weeks, and Maze Slash every 9 days. Most recently, Case Closed was updated on October 10, 2026 and Maze Slash on October 11, 2026.

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