Comparison

maddness. vs Four Rooms

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

Head to head
About

maddness.

Embark on a role-playing adventure on a real-world map, engaging with NPCs and other players. Join one of five factions vying for global dominance each week, with leaderboards tracking top performers. Explore a vast world and master strategic tricks to aid your faction's success.

Highlights
  • Real-world map gameplay
  • NPC and player interactions
  • Faction-based competition
  • Weekly global conquest
  • Leaderboards for top players
  • Exploration and strategy
Features
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Maddness — Location-Based Murder Mystery A new case every week. Your city is the crime scene. Step into a noir world where real streets become crime scenes and every stranger might be a suspect. Maddness is a location-based murder mystery game that turns your neighborhood into an interactive detective story. Each week, a new victim. A new killer. A trail of clues scattered across real places near you — the coffee shop on the corner, the park down the street, the library you pass every day. Walk there. Investigate. Interrogate AI-powered suspects who lie, deflect, and slip up under pressure. HOW IT PLAYS • A mystery unfolds at real locations around you • Travel to each scene to collect clues and meet NPCs • Interrogate suspects — they respond dynamically with AI • Piece together the motive and accuse the killer • Team up with friends to cover more ground faster • Compete on the leaderboard to solve it first WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • No two conversations with an NPC are the same — they're AI-powered characters with secrets to keep • The story adapts to YOUR city — same mystery, different real-world locations for every player • Text-based atmosphere meets real-world exploration • Weekly episodes — fresh case every Monday • Play solo or form a team across different neighborhoods "You overhear a whispered conversation at the café nearby. A name you recognize. A motive you didn't expect. The pieces are falling into place — but so is the clock."

About

Four Rooms

Guide a princess through a minimalist roguelike tower, collecting daggers and throwing potions to overcome monsters and uncover mysteries. Each level presents a unique challenge in the princess's ever-changing environment.

Highlights
  • Minimalist roguelike gameplay
  • Collect daggers for defense
  • Throw potions to alter environment
  • Procedurally generated tower levels
  • Uncover mysteries
Features
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Help the princess reach the golden throne in this seemingly minimalistic roguelike game. Collect daggers to protect yourself from monsters. Throw potions to change the world around you. There will be many dangers along the way, and many mysteries to uncover in the princess's ever-changing tower.

Screenshots

maddness.4 screens
Four Rooms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: maddness. at none against Four Rooms's 1. maddness. also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). Four Rooms's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.5). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Four Rooms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. maddness. asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for maddness. against 5.0 for Four Rooms. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

maddness. ships an update every 6 months, Four Rooms every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
maddness. versus Four Rooms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametermaddness.Four Rooms
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB73 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperSiliconHouse, LLCCody Mace

Customer experience

maddness.

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Four Rooms

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

maddness.

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Four Rooms

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$1.99

Questions

Is maddness. free?
maddness. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Four Rooms free?
Four Rooms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, maddness. or Four Rooms?
maddness. and Four Rooms are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do maddness. or Four Rooms have ads?
Neither maddness. nor Four Rooms shows ads.
Which is updated more often, maddness. or Four Rooms?
maddness. ships an update every 6 months, and Four Rooms every 3 weeks. Most recently, maddness. was updated on November 3, 2026 and Four Rooms on October 31, 2026.

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