Maglev Metro vs Hondo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maglev Metro
Build and manage a futuristic metropolitan rail system using magnetic levitation technology. Transport workers and robots efficiently beneath the city, upgrading your system to ensure passengers arrive quickly. This tile-laying, engine-building game transforms the board into a vibrant subway map.
- Magnetic levitation rail system construction
- Pick-up-and-deliver gameplay
- Tile-laying mechanics
- Engine-building elements
- Passenger and robot transport
- Route overlapping
- Robot-based upgrades
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In Maglev Metro, utilize state-of-the-art magnetic levitation technology to build a metropolitan rail system, transporting workers and robots beneath the city. Replace aging Manhattan and Berlin subway systems with newer, faster, quieter technology. Enhance your rail system's abilities so that your passengers arrive at their destinations first. Efficiency is your key to success in this pick-up-and-deliver, tile-laying, engine-building game. Transparent tiles allow your route to overlap your opponents' tracks, winding you along from station to station. Robots efficiently upgrade and adjust your abilities, leveraging unique goals to maximize points. By the end of the game, the game board has morphed into a modern subway map, with brightly-colored routes connecting stations all over the city.
Hondo
Guess back-to-back code words to score 100 points. Manage your energy meter, as each guess depletes it, but correct guesses restore it. Utilize special abilities like shuffling words or skipping to gain an advantage, but be mindful of their energy cost.
- Back-to-back word guessing
- Energy meter management
- Special abilities
- Word shuffling
- Skip word option
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Hondo is a Wordle-like word guessing game, where the goal is to guess back-to-back code words in an attempt to score a Hondo (100 points, that is). Watch your energy meter! Every guess drains energy, but correct guesses replenish it instead. Need help? Use special abilities to shuffle the words on the board, or skip the current code word to tilt the odds in your favor. But beware—these abilities also cost energy, so use them wisely!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hondo at Free against Maglev Metro's $4.99. Hondo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). Maglev Metro's advantage is ratings volume (42 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Hondo is free to download; Maglev Metro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hondo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maglev Metro has 42 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Maglev Metro ships an update every 5 weeks, Hondo every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maglev Metro | Hondo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 324 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Bezier Games, Inc. | Josh Collinsworth |
Customer experience
Maglev Metro
Hondo
In-app purchases
Maglev Metro
No in-app purchases
Hondo
No in-app purchases
