Mouse About vs Tricky Pipes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mouse About
Guide a hungry mouse through randomly generated food puzzles against a timer. Eat all the food to advance, but be quick to avoid losing lives. Enjoy endless replayability with unpredictable challenges.
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Timed gameplay
- Collect food to progress
- Multiple lives system
- Fast-paced challenges
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Mouse About is a super fun, fast paced puzzler where all the puzzles are randomly generated, so nothing is ever predictable! Each puzzle is played against a timer, so be quick or you'll lose a life. Help Marv eat lots of yummy food. Solve all the food puzzles by guiding Marv the hungry mouse from one piece of food to another. Eat all the food to progress to the next level. More Discover more amazing Cobra Mobile games at www.cobramobile.com Support Having problems? Visit http://www.cobramobile.com/support/ to see if we can help you.
Tricky Pipes
Navigate a challenging world filled with randomly generated traps. Control your character with simple arrow keys to move and jump through 30 perilous pipes. Your goal is to reach Princess Bird and escape the treacherous environment.
- Randomly generated traps
- 30 challenging pipes
- Simple arrow controls
- Jump and move mechanics
- Reach Princess Bird
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The world of Tricky Pipes is full of traps! Each time you die new traps are randomly generated. You need to pass 30 pipes to reach princess Bird! Can you do it? [Controls] Use left and right arrows to move. Use up arrow to jump.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tricky Pipes at Free against Mouse About's $0.99. Tricky Pipes also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 13 months). Mouse About's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (83% vs 63%). On ratings volume, 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
Tricky Pipes is free to download; Mouse About costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tricky Pipes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 208 and 312 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Mouse About's written reviews are positive against 63% of Tricky Pipes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mouse About ships an update every 13 months, Tricky Pipes every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mouse About | Tricky Pipes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (208 ratings) | 4.6 (312 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 63.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 208 | 312 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 151 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Cobra Mobile Limited | Dan-ionut Chis |
Customer experience
Mouse About
Tricky Pipes
User reviews
Mouse About
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Stunning graphics and visual polish
- 🎵 Excellent music and sound design
- 🎮 Addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Intuitive and responsive controls
- 🧩 Well-designed puzzle mechanics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- ⏱️ Difficulty spikes too quickly
- 😤 Frustrating time pressure mechanics
- 🔄 No ability to retry failed levels
- 🎵 Cannot play own music while gaming
Tricky Pipes
From 312 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😂 Hilarious and funny game
- 👍 Addictive and fun gameplay
- 💡 Random stages keep it fresh
- 🏆 Good concept for challenge
- 🚀 Great alternative to Syobon Action
Room to improve
- 😠 Extremely difficult and impossible levels
- 🐛 Numerous bugs and glitches
- 👎 Controls need improvement
- 💥 Unfair obstacles and traps
- 📺 Too much advertising
Bugs and requests
Mouse About
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes when resuming saved games
- Crashes when searching for app in search function
- Game freezes and closes unexpectedly
- Save game names causing resume failures
- Mouse commits suicide when pausing/unpausing
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- App won't open or run at all
- Crashes on newer iOS versions and iPhone 5+
- Resume function sends mouse off-screen
- Loading screens cause extended delays
- Game crashes when selecting 'New Game' or 'Continue'
Requested features
14 requests- Relaxation/puzzle mode without timer or cat
- Easy, medium, hard difficulty modes
- Ability to retry failed levels
- Time bonuses or more generous time limits
- Pause function that works correctly
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- Ability to listen to own music while playing
- More lives or easier ways to earn lives
- Multiplayer or competitive modes
- Time attack mode
- Community leaderboards
- Additional levels and scenes
- Save game functionality improvements
- Status bar visibility for time and battery
- More variety in food types
Tricky Pipes
Reported bugs
6 issues- Controls are not right
- Random stages can make progress impossible
- Textures block movement at level start
- Levels are impossible to beat
- Game has innumerable bugs
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- Glitch skips throughout every level
Requested features
5 requests- Add a timer for speedruns
- Way to save last game for speedruns
- Add a scoreboard for competition
- Create an easier mode
- Make more games like this, maybe with a dog
In-app purchases
Mouse About
No in-app purchases
Tricky Pipes
No in-app purchases
