Comparison

Maze HyperCube Lite vs Tidegate

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

Tidegate

Explore a hand-painted island mystery where the tide is your only control. Manipulate water levels to uncover hidden paths, solve environmental puzzles, and piece together the story of vanished island keepers. Enjoy a no-pressure, offline experience with a unique cross-scene reasoning mechanic.

Highlights
  • Tidal control mechanic
  • Hand-painted 2.5D dioramas
  • Environmental puzzles
  • No combat or timers
  • In-game hint journal
  • Offline play
Features
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Tidegate is a quiet, hand-painted island mystery you play with one strange control: the tide. You wash ashore on Brenn Hollow, a tidal island whose keepers vanished mid-ritual. The moon no longer moves the water — a great brass orrery in the lighthouse does, and it is jammed between phases. Turn it, and the whole island re-floods or drains at once. Low tide and high tide are two different islands sharing one map. A TIDE YOU CONTROL Five tide stops reshape every scene at the same time. Dead low bares the causeway and the mud flat; spring high floats rafts and barrels along the old channels and drowns the paths you knew. Some clues read only at exactly the middle stop. You stop thinking scene-by-scene and start reading the island as one great machine — that cross-scene reasoning is the whole feeling this game is built around. HAND-PAINTED 2.5D DIORAMAS Each scene is a set of painted planes at real depth in front of a moving camera, so the world has parallax and weight. The water is a true plane that slides into the scene as the tide rises, swallowing the deeper ground first — the signature mechanic is legible at a glance. POINT-AND-CLICK, NO PRESSURE No combat. No death. No timers. Just observation, memory and a handful of genuinely clever puzzles: a drowned carillon whose bells only sing at the waterline, a message walked into the mud years ago that you read by lantern-light at the right tide, a barrel-post you route by setting four sluice gates along the water-road, and a cove that runs backwards. In the tradition of classic point-and-click and Myst-like island mysteries. THE KEEPER'S ALMANAC A journal that quietly collects the letters and tide-charts you find, and writes gentle, in-fiction hints in its margins once you have been stuck a while — never spoilers before then. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT - Play all of District 1 (Harrow Reach) free, including lighting its beacon. - Invite a friend from the title screen and you both get promo credits toward unlocking the island. - Plays in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, Nederlands, Polski and Português. - 100% offline. No account, no sign-up, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. The whole island lives on your device. UNLOCK TIDEGATE (OPTIONAL) One unlock opens the rest of Brenn Hollow: Cannery Rows, the drowned Chapel Shoals, Lighthouse Point, the Tidegate finale, and the Almanac's plain-spoken hint tier. It is one-time and permanent — no subscription, nothing renews — and restores on a new device. The free reach stays free, forever. Terms of Service: https://adelyons.com/apps/tidegate/terms.html EULA: https://adelyons.com/apps/tidegate/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://adelyons.com/apps/tidegate/privacy.html Wash ashore, and set the tide right. Questions or ideas? dev@adelyons.com

Screenshots

Maze HyperCube Lite4 screens
Tidegate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tidegate at every 10 days against Maze HyperCube Lite's every 14 months. Maze HyperCube Lite's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 Tidegate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Maze HyperCube Lite against 5.0 for Tidegate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maze HyperCube Lite ships an update every 14 months, Tidegate every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Maze HyperCube Lite versus Tidegate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaze HyperCube LiteTidegate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter KramerAdelyons Software LLC

Customer experience

Maze HyperCube Lite

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

Tidegate

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Maze HyperCube Lite

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

Tidegate

One-time1
  • Unlock Tidegate$9.99

Questions

Is Maze HyperCube Lite free?
Maze HyperCube Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tidegate free?
Tidegate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Maze HyperCube Lite or Tidegate?
Maze HyperCube Lite and Tidegate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Maze HyperCube Lite or Tidegate have ads?
Neither Maze HyperCube Lite nor Tidegate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maze HyperCube Lite or Tidegate?
Maze HyperCube Lite ships an update every 14 months, and Tidegate every 10 days. Most recently, Maze HyperCube Lite was updated on October 2, 2026 and Tidegate on October 8, 2026.

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