Die Trying vs State Mapper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Die Trying
Navigate treacherous levels filled with unexpected traps, moving spikes, and falling ceilings. Test your reflexes and precision to avoid game over and reach your goal. This challenging game demands focus and patience.
- Challenging levels
- Unexpected traps
- Moving obstacles
- Precision gameplay
- Multiple stages
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Will you overcome the challenge to reach the gates of heaven or will you fall into the gates of hell??? Traps can show up out of nowhere, spikes can move unexpectedly and ceilings can fall down on you as you make your way through the many different levels. One wrong step and it's game over. Don't get angry, haha... Good luck!!!
State Mapper
Test your knowledge of U.S. geography with this interactive game. Guess states based on directional clues and aim for the fewest attempts to identify the randomly selected state.
- U.S. geography testing
- Random state selection
- Directional guessing clues
- Minimize guess count
- Interactive gameplay
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State Mapper is an app that allows you to test your knowledge of United States geography. Each game a state is randomly selected. As you type in a State name, you're shown the direction from your guessed state to the randomly selected state. The goal is to use the arrows provided after each guess to figure out the randomly selected state in as few guesses as possible. Good Luck!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: State Mapper at none against Die Trying's shown. State Mapper also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 days) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Die Trying's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
State Mapper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Die Trying has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Die Trying ships an update every 6 days, State Mapper daily. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Die Trying | State Mapper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 206 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pham Duc Long | Jonathan Hesler |
Customer experience
Die Trying
State Mapper
In-app purchases
Die Trying
No in-app purchases
State Mapper
No in-app purchases
