Comparison

Maze HyperCube Lite vs Polychoron Explorer

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

Head to head
About

Maze HyperCube Lite

Explore a variety of multidimensional mazes, from simple lines to complex 4-dimensional tesseracts. This free game offers customizable maze sizes and optional aids like showing the best move. Upgrade to unlock a vast library of mazes.

Highlights
  • Multiple dimensions (1D, 2D, 3D, 4D)
  • Customizable maze sizes
  • Optional 'Show Best Move'
  • Optional 'Porous Walls'
  • Moves remaining indicator
  • Portal visualization
Features
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A free multidimensional maze game for the both iPhone and iPad. Many different sizes - Squares, Cubes, 4-dimensional Tesseracts, and mazes with any size sides like 5x2x7x3 or a double stacked square - 10x10x2. 1 dimensional lines 2 dimensional squares - up to 40x40 on the iPad, 20x20 on the iPhone 3 dimensional cubes - up to 40x40x40 on the iPad, 20x20x20 on the iPhone 4 dimensional tesseracts - up to 20x40x40x20 on the iPad, 10x20x20x10 on the iPhone Optional: Show Best Move, Make Best Move Optional: Porous Walls, Moves remaining indicator, Show Portals Combines Kramer&Kramer Apps MazeLine, MazeSquare, MazeCube and MazeTesseract into one App. And much much larger mazes can be selected on an iPad. Prior to upgrade, this free version allows 2 mazes of each size and complexity level (e.g. 4 mazes 17x17, 4 mazes 5x2x7x3, 4 mazes, 4 mazes 8x11x2x2, etc.). After upgrade there are 100 mazes of each size and complexity level. Screenshots: 1) a small 2-D maze 2) a large 2-D maze 3) a 3-D maze 4) a 4-D maze (4x3x2x2) 5) Select Maze screen

About

Polychoron Explorer

Features
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Introducing Magic Manycell - a puzzle game inspired by Magic Cube but in 4D. Rotate 4D slices of a Tesseract or 16-Cell to match colors. Comprehend and feel 4D space by watching 4D objects projected into 3D by brand new 4D projection-based rendering engine. Magic Manycell puzzle can be played on 3 different 4D figures -- Tesseract with its Cells divided into 8 cubes 2*2*2, tesseract with cells divided into 3*3*3=27 smaller cubes each, and a 16-cell, which is a regular polychoron with 16 tetrahedral cells, where you have to match colors in 4 cells aligned together. If Magic Manycell puzzle seems too hard at first, you can adjust difficulty by selecting amount of moves (called shuffles) that game creates from the state with all colors perfectly aligned. So as you master elementary 1, 2 and 3 shuffles, you can move on to more challenging puzzles. In addition to starting with less shuffles, with Tesseract based figures players can select to utilize rotations that affects less cells that actual rotation would which makes this puzzle playable to even most casual players (this is the default mode - for only "realistic" rotations select "IRON AN" mode). In addition to Magic Manycell, this game contains Explorer mode without game goal where you can take your time to explore all 6 regular 4D polytopes (called polychorons). You can also customize how polychoron looks by selecting colors for each Cell of it. In Premium version, you can even create your own polychorons by scanning and splitting existing ones into 2 parts. Even though right now there're only 2 modes, more fun games on the same engine are planned to be added in the future into this same app. Game uses Freemium model where free (Demo) functionality is limited. Full functionality is unlockable with one-time purchases, only one for each mode. Demo mode is indicated by watermark so you know that there are some limitations to be expected. However in each mode there is a fully unlocked free functionality - for Magic Manycell, this is 2*2*2 tesseract board, for Explorer it's the 5-cell and Tesseract.

Screenshots

Maze HyperCube Lite4 screens
Polychoron Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Polychoron Explorer at every 3 weeks against Maze HyperCube Lite's every 14 months. Maze HyperCube Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Maze HyperCube Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Polychoron Explorer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maze HyperCube Lite ships an update every 14 months, Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Maze HyperCube Lite versus Polychoron Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaze HyperCube LitePolychoron Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter KramerOLEG LESHCHEV

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Maze HyperCube Lite

One-time1
  • package of mazes - 100 for each size and complexity level -$1.99
3 purchases

Polychoron Explorer

One-time3
  • Unlock Explorer$4.99
  • Unlock Magic Manycell$4.99
  • Full Lifetime Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is Maze HyperCube Lite free?
Maze HyperCube Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Polychoron Explorer free?
Polychoron Explorer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Maze HyperCube Lite or Polychoron Explorer have ads?
Neither Maze HyperCube Lite nor Polychoron Explorer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maze HyperCube Lite or Polychoron Explorer?
Maze HyperCube Lite ships an update every 14 months, and Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Maze HyperCube Lite was updated on October 2, 2026 and Polychoron Explorer on October 5, 2026.

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