Simple Marble Run vs 3DMaze Tsukuler
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Marble Run
Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.
- Customizable marble courses
- Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
- Marble throwing mechanic
- Truck collection and departure cycle
- Adjustable camera viewpoints
- Soothing ASMR-like experience
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.
3DMaze Tsukuler
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Build your own maze, then race through it in first-person 3D — a 60-second time attack! 3DMaze Tsukuler is a build-and-play maze game: draw a maze on a 2D grid and turn it into a real 3D dungeon you can run through. Sketch the walls with your finger, place the goal and gimmicks, and hit Start. The flat maze you were just looking at from above instantly becomes a first-person 3D maze right in front of you. ■ BUILD - Drag across the grid to place walls — they take on the look of your chosen theme in 3D. - Put the goal anywhere you like. - Tap "Random" to auto-generate a maze instantly — then tweak it freely. - Pinch to zoom in for detailed editing. Sizes: 8x8 / 10x10 / 15x15 / 20x20. - Undo any change, and share a maze with a friend as a short code. ■ PLAY - Start converts your maze into a first-person 3D dungeon. - It stays paused until you tap "Go!" — so you can hand the device to someone first. - Choose your time limit: 45 / 60 / 90 seconds (60 by default). Race to the glowing goal! - Move with the stick (bottom-left), drag to look around. Simple controls. ■ GIMMICKS, TOO (on 15x15 / 20x20) - Recovery points: step on one for +15 seconds. - Warps: teleport instantly between two spots. ■ FIVE ENVIRONMENT THEMES (all free) - Ancient Temple: blue sky, sandstone, turquoise friezes, hanging vines. - Sci-Fi City: white panels, glowing strips, windows onto space, glossy floors. - Mossy Ruins: light filtering through the canopy, moss-covered stone, ferns and white flowers. - Underground Labyrinth: vaulted ceilings, flickering torches, wet reflective floors, a glowing portal. - White Hall: a clean corridor of white tile and luminous ceilings. ■ MORE FEATURES - Five original background tracks, with optional random playback. - Full portrait and landscape support. - Bilingual UI (Japanese / English). ■ EVERYTHING IS FREE There are no in-app purchases. You get all of this at no cost: - Maze sizes 8x8 / 10x10 / 15x15 / 20x20 - All five environment themes - Gimmicks (recovery, warp) - All five BGM tracks plus random playback - Save and load up to 20 mazes, and share codes No ads. No data collection. Everything runs on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Marble Run at none against 3DMaze Tsukuler's 1. Simple Marble Run also leads on device support (3 vs 1). 3DMaze Tsukuler's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price and iOS requirement 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. 3DMaze Tsukuler sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Marble Run asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Marble Run ships an update every 6 weeks, 3DMaze Tsukuler every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Marble Run | 3DMaze Tsukuler |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (260 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 260 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | monois Inc. | seiji honda |
In-app purchases
Simple Marble Run
No in-app purchases
3DMaze Tsukuler
- Unlock All Features$0.49
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