Comparison

Forest Runner vs Hello, Mario!

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

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About

Forest Runner

Navigate a procedurally generated 3D forest, overcoming hurdles with unique abilities like double jump and time manipulation. Collect coins to upgrade your skills and test your agility as the game's speed and difficulty increase.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated 3D forest
  • Double jump ability
  • Time slowdown ability
  • Shrink ability
  • Coin collection for upgrades
  • Increasing difficulty and speed
Features
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**No Ads or micro-transactions, just fun** Forest Runner is a 3D endless procedurally-generated runner game where you control a character who runs through a forest full of hurdles. You can use three different abilities to overcome the obstacles: double jump, clock slow down, and small pill. Double jump lets you leap higher and farther, clock slow down slows down time and makes the hurdles easier to dodge, and small pill shrinks you to fit under low barriers. You can collect coins along the way and use them to upgrade your abilities. The game gets faster and harder as you run, so you have to be quick and agile. How far can you run into the forest?

About

Hello, Mario!

Engage with Mario's face by pulling, stretching, and poking him to create various expressions. Add iconic items and characters from the Mushroom Kingdom to the scene. Enjoy interactive play with a built-in feature that encourages screen time breaks.

Highlights
  • Manipulate Mario's face
  • Add game items and characters
  • Play peekaboo with Mario
  • Built-in screen time breaks
  • Offline play
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"Hello, Mario!" Are you ready to play? With this free application from the little-kid-friendly My Mario brand, you and your kiddo can play with Mario's face and delight in all his various expressions. ■Make Silly Faces Team up with your kiddo to see how silly Mario can get when you pull and stretch his face or take turns poking and spinning him around. Tap on the ? Block in the top-left corner of the screen and select an icon to make items—like a Super Mushroom, a Super Star, or pipes—and even enemies appear alongside Mario. ■Peekaboo! Invite Mario to play peekaboo by tapping on the leftmost icon in the ? Block menu. Boo may even make a guest appearance! ■Built-In Breaks Good night, Mario! Mario gets tuckered out after playing for a while and will fall fast asleep. At that point no amount of poking can wake him up! This is a great opportunity to take a break and help parents limit their child's screen time. If you want to keep the fun going, you can turn off this feature by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts. ■Play Offline There's no need to be connected to the internet to play this application. After you download it, you're good to go! Operation is not guaranteed for all devices that meet the operating conditions. It may not work properly depending on the device's performance and specifications, device-specific application usage conditions, etc. Please be sure to read the Health and Safety information provided in the application settings before you start playing. Settings can be accessed by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts to access the menu. ©Nintendo

Screenshots

Forest Runner4 screens
Hello, Mario!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Forest Runner at 100% against Hello, Mario!'s 90%. Forest Runner also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Forest Runner versus Hello, Mario!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForest RunnerHello, Mario!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (326 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better89.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—326 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB137 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperBENJAMIN STIRLING BICKNELLNintendo Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Forest Runner

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hello, Mario!

All ratings279 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral3.9%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews156 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative6.4%

In-app purchases

None

Forest Runner

No in-app purchases

None

Hello, Mario!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forest Runner free?
Forest Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hello, Mario! free?
Hello, Mario! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Forest Runner or Hello, Mario! have ads?
Neither Forest Runner nor Hello, Mario! shows ads.

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