Grid Ranger vs Maze Mice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grid Ranger
Experience a high-speed synthwave shooter with a unique blend of racing, arcade, and bullet hell gameplay. Master increasingly challenging levels and modes, enhanced by an 80s vector display aesthetic and original soundtrack.
- Synthwave shmuplike gameplay
- Vector-scan display emulation
- Racing, arcade, and bullet hell zones
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Infinite mode
- Original synthwave soundtrack
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A heart-pounding laser-powered synthwave shmuplike. Level up your finger dexterity and see what lies beyond the grid... Each level starts with a high-speed racing zone, followed by a slower arcade zone, and ends with a powerful bullet hell boss. - Uses the V99 vector engine that emulates classic vector-scan displays of the early 80's - 3 levels total, each increasing in difficulty, to reach insane levels of intensity by the very end - 2 modes of difficulty: Normal and Hardcore - Infinite mode: a never ending level that gets increasingly fast and difficult, unlocked after level 1 is completed - 8 original tracks by Miles Tilmann, composer for NOVA DRIFT Created by Pixeljam and Datassette. https://www.pixeljam.com https://discord.gg/pixeljam
Maze Mice
Navigate challenging mazes in this roguelike survival game where time progresses only when you move. Collect power-ups, choose upgrades, and evade enemies to survive. Unlock new characters and discover a vast array of enhancements.
- Time moves only when you move
- Collect dots and level up
- Choose from tons of upgrades
- Unlock multiple cute characters
- Bullet heaven roguelite gameplay
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Maze Mice is a bullet heaven roguelite where time only moves when you move. Collect dots, level up, choose upgrades, and avoid cats. All at your own pace. Features: Gameplay designed by the same solo developer who brought you Luck be a Landlord. A fantastic soundtrack from the same composer as Luck be a Landlord. Multiple cute characters to unlock and play as. Tons of upgrades to unlock and pick from.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Maze Mice at 4.5 against Grid Ranger's 3.5. Maze Mice also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Grid Ranger's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 40%) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On update cadence, 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
Grid Ranger costs $2.99 and Maze Mice $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Maze Mice holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maze Mice has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Grid Ranger's written reviews are positive against 40% of Maze Mice's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Grid Ranger ships an update weekly, Maze Mice daily. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grid Ranger | Maze Mice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #196 | #186 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Akupara Games | TrampolineTales |
Customer experience
Grid Ranger
Maze Mice
In-app purchases
Grid Ranger
No in-app purchases
Maze Mice
No in-app purchases
