Maze vs HexShift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maze
Engage your mind with a classic maze puzzle game. Navigate a green ball through intricate mazes to reach the destination. Offers over 1000 levels of varying difficulty to test your logic and spatial reasoning skills.
- Classic maze gameplay
- Brain and logic training
- Intuitive 2D view
- Swipe screen controls
- 1000+ mazes
- Multiple difficulty levels
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Guide the ball through thousands of mazes with simple swipe controls. Enjoy classic puzzles, explore large labyrinths in Real mode, or find your way with limited visibility in Darkness. FEATURES • 2,600+ handcrafted maze puzzles Explore thousands of carefully designed challenges with increasing difficulty. • Smooth and satisfying controls Enjoy responsive swipes, fluid movement, and a polished gameplay experience. • Multiple ways to play Choose from classic mazes, Real mode with large-scale exploration, and Darkness mode with limited visibility. • Challenge yourself Improve your solving skills, complete levels with fewer moves, and track your progress. • Simple and relaxing design A clean puzzle experience with no unnecessary distractions. Perfect for fans of: • Maze puzzles • Brain games • Logic puzzles • Offline games • Relaxing challenges Start your maze journey today!
HexShift
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HexShift is a hex grid puzzle game that rewards smart thinking and fast instincts. Rotate tiles, build chains, and shatter clusters before the board collapses around you. Easy to learn. Impossible to master. Three ways to play: — Classic: Build chains, manage bombs, and survive the pressure as the board gets harder the longer you last — Timed: Score attack against the clock — every cluster you shatter buys you more time — Hardcore: One miss ends your run. The board shrinks every 10 moves. No mercy. Features: — Satisfying chain combo system with up to 6x multipliers — Special tiles including bombs, locked tiles, mystery tiles, prisms and more — Daily challenges with a streak system — Global leaderboards via Game Center — 9 colours that unlock as your score climbs — Clean neon aesthetic with full sound design Free to play. One optional purchase to remove ads forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HexShift at daily against Maze's every 3 weeks. Maze's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.1). 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
Both are free to download. Maze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HexShift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Maze ships an update every 3 weeks, HexShift daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maze | HexShift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (569 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 569 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Gude Aipu Technology Co., Ltd | KURT MICHAEL JENKINS |
In-app purchases
Maze
- Remove Ads$4.99
HexShift
- Ad Free$0.99









