Do a Maze vs Melldows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Do a Maze
Easily play and create your own maze games. Navigate a red ball to a green one by tilting your device, avoiding enemies. Design mazes with your finger and set enemy paths. Share your creations with friends.
- Tilt to move ball
- Avoid enemies
- Create mazes with finger
- Place game pieces
- Set enemy paths
- Track best times
- Share games
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Do A Maze is an easy way to play and create games. While playing, tilt your device to move the red ball to the green ball while avoiding all the enemies. Games can be found on the internet or included as attachments you might send or receive in emails or texts. To create a game all you have to do is draw a maze with your finger, place game pieces where they should start and choose paths for the enemy pieces to follow. Do A Maze even keeps up with your best times for each game. If you are sharing your games, your friends will need to get Do A Maze to play them. It costs nothing to play and create games and Do A Maze has no ads. Do A Maze comes with some games we made with the app. So go ahead and give them a try. Then, let your creative juices flow by creating your very own games to play and share!
Melldows
Design and color your own miniature world in this relaxing sandbox game. Spread forests, create paths, and add structures in a goal-less, creative experience.
- Creative land design
- Goal-less sandbox experience
- Forest and path creation
- Place tents and ruins
- Cozy and carefree gameplay
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Melldows is a tiny, cozy world-building toy with no goals, scores, or pressure. Shape a small piece of land into your own peaceful place. Sculpt the terrain, grow forests and flowers, draw winding paths, and build a quiet little village. Watch the world come alive with changing light, gentle wildlife, and seasonal colors. There is nothing to win and no correct way to play. Create a wild garden, a hidden settlement, or simply relax and see where your ideas take you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Do a Maze at Free against Melldows's $1.99. Do a Maze also leads on iOS requirement (13 vs 26.0). Melldows's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 15 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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
Do a Maze is free to download; Melldows costs $1.99 up front. Do a Maze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Melldows asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Do a Maze against 5.0 for Melldows. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Do a Maze ships an update every 15 months, Melldows every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Do a Maze | Melldows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lone Human, LLC | Łukasz Cichecki |
Customer experience
Do a Maze
Melldows
In-app purchases
Do a Maze
- More Enemies$0.99
Melldows
No in-app purchases
