Puzzles Reloaded vs Hedgemaze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puzzles Reloaded
Enjoy a vast collection of classic logic puzzles, including Sudoku, Minesweeper, and Nonograms. This ad-free application works entirely offline, ensuring privacy as no user data is collected.
- Offline play
- Ad-free experience
- Sudoku
- Minesweeper
- Nonograms
- Slitherlink
- KenKen
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Puzzles Reloaded is powered by the Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle collection and other contributors. This app is ad-free and works totally offline. No data or statistics are collected from you. Play our versions of Sudoku, Slitherlink, Minesweeper, Nonograms, KenKen, and many more!
Hedgemaze
A relaxing logic puzzle game where you use grid clues to create a single path through various serene environments. It offers over 2,000 puzzles with increasing difficulty and a daily challenge mode with leaderboards. Enjoy a pure puzzle experience with no ads or timers.
- Logic-based grid puzzles
- Build a single perfect path
- 2,000+ puzzles
- Four difficulty levels
- Daily challenges with leaderboards
- No ads or timers
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Hedgemaze is a relaxing logic puzzle inspired by nonograms, picross, and traditional paper puzzles. Use row and column clues to build a single perfect path through flowers, zen gardens, torii gates, and winding rivers. Each puzzle challenges you to determine exactly which cells become hedge and which become path. Every puzzle has one unique solution and can be solved with logic alone. No guessing required. Play 2,000+ puzzles across four difficulties. Start with 6×6 Easy grids and work your way up to challenging 12×12 Expert puzzles with rivers, bridges, and new twists to master. Take on a new Daily Challenge every day. Solve three puzzles that reset at midnight, compete on global leaderboards for the fastest times, and track your streaks and best solves while earning achievements. No ads. No energy timers. Just puzzles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Puzzles Reloaded at none against Hedgemaze's 1. Hedgemaze's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Hedgemaze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Puzzles Reloaded asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hedgemaze holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Puzzles Reloaded's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hedgemaze's.
Puzzles Reloaded ships an update every 2 weeks, Hedgemaze every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puzzles Reloaded | Hedgemaze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Swarner | Drew Koontz |
Customer experience
Puzzles Reloaded
Hedgemaze
In-app purchases
Puzzles Reloaded
No in-app purchases
Hedgemaze
- Hedgemaze Pro$4.99
