MAZE vs Block Craze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MAZE
Engage your strategic thinking with a unique puzzle experience that combines tile placement and path building. Insert tiles to create paths, guide a character through labyrinths, and collect treasures. This game offers a progressive challenge with handcrafted puzzles and no time pressure.
- Strategic tile insertion
- Path building gameplay
- Treasure collection
- Progressive challenge
- Offline play
- No time pressure
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Ready to challenge your strategic thinking? MAZE combines tile placement with path building in a unique puzzle experience where every move matters. STRATEGIC TILE INSERTION Unlike traditional puzzles, MAZE gives you direct control over the labyrinth. Insert tiles strategically to create paths, guide Jules through the maze, and collect treasures. Each level starts with no valid path—your job is to build one! INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY - Drag and drop tiles directly into the 4x4 grid - Watch the maze transform as you insert new paths - Plan your moves carefully—each tile placement changes everything - Smooth animations and satisfying haptic feedback COLLECT TREASURES Navigate through increasingly complex labyrinths to collect gems of every color. Each level presents a unique puzzle that requires creative spatial thinking and strategic planning. PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE - Tutorial levels ease you into the mechanics - 20+ handcrafted puzzles with increasing difficulty - New mechanics introduced gradually - Lives system—play at your own pace (regenerate every 20 minutes) PERFECT FOR Fans of strategic puzzle games like Monument Valley and The Room or the famous Labyrinth board game. If you enjoy spatial reasoning challenges and thinking games with depth, MAZE is for you. KEY FEATURES - 6x6 or 8x8 labyrinth grid with direct tile insertion - Path building strategy gameplay - Multiple treasure types to collect - Automatic character movement - No time pressure—think and plan - Offline play—no internet required MAZE isn't just about solving puzzles—it's about building them as you go. Every tile you insert reshapes the labyrinth, creating new possibilities. Can you master strategic tile placement? Download MAZE now and start building your path to victory!
Block Craze
This block puzzle game offers endless strategic fun with no timers or lives. Drag and drop shapes to clear rows and columns, with evolving board layouts and new pieces to master. Earn in-game currency or watch ads for helpful power-ups.
- Drag and drop shape placement
- Row and column clearing
- No timer or lives
- Offline gameplay
- Themed block packs
- Daily challenges
- Power-ups for assistance
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Block Craze is a block puzzle you can pick up in ten seconds and still be playing six months later. Drag shapes onto the grid. Fill a row or a column and it blasts. Tap a piece to turn it if it's facing the wrong way. There's no timer and no lives, so you can think as long as you like, and the whole game runs offline. THEME PACKS Change the look of every block on the board. Halloween is free for everyone until Nov 15: animated mummies, zombies, ghosts, skulls, pumpkins and eyeballs, with haunted backdrops in Endless and the Daily Challenge. Brick Blocks is free too. Wood, Flowers, Fruity, Bedazzled and Cozy unlock with coins you earn playing. Preview any pack on a live board first, and switch back to classic blocks anytime. HOW IT PLAYS Three pieces at a time. Place them all and three more arrive. Leave yourself no room and the run ends. The rule takes five seconds to learn, and then every drop is a decision about the drop after it. THE PIECES KEEP COMING You start with squares and lines. By the time you're deep in you're fitting plus signs, U-blocks, W-staggers and long diagonals into gaps that look too small for them. New shapes are still showing up past level 60. THE BOARD DOESN'T STAY A SQUARE From level 5, the grid starts losing pieces of itself: clipped corners, staircases, side bites, octagons, diamonds, hourglasses, arrows. There's one hollow-centre vault you'll meet exactly once. Later on, gem blocks and coin blocks appear on the board, and ice that takes more than one clear to break. WHEN YOU GET STUCK Bombs blow a hole through the middle. Lasers fire straight down a line. Hammers take out one stubborn tile. You earn them with combos, buy them with coins you've won, or watch an ad and take one. CHAINS AND FRENZY Clear two or more lines in one drop and the FRENZY meter charges. Fill it and the board goes into FRENZY, where scores climb and the screen stops behaving. Finish the level while it's running and you get paid for it. Empty the board completely and you get an ALL CLEAR bonus on top, which is the best feeling in the game. WORLD AFTER WORLD Start in Lagoon, then work through Pirate Cove, Neon City, Dinoland, Volcano and beyond, with more worlds on the way. Each world has its own painting and its own step up in difficulty, and later worlds each bring a signature rule of their own. Past level 32 the score target stops being the only thing you're chasing: clear so many lines, collect so many gems, hit a combo, wipe out the blocks you started with. ENDLESS One board, no target, nothing to reach. Waves escalate as your score climbs and the board creeps toward full, so every run has an ending waiting for it. Your five best are saved on your device. A NEW BOARD EVERY DAY The Daily Challenge is tuned to how far you've come. Keep the streak alive and it pays better. THINGS TO COLLECT Every shape, arena and special block you play gets added to an album, and the ones you haven't found sit there as silhouettes. Thirty achievements pay out coins when you claim them. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT Free to play Works fully offline, no wifi required No account, no sign-up, no email Progress saved on your device Fine for two minutes, fine for an hour Bright art, big effects, and music worth leaving on
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MAZE at none against Block Craze's 5. MAZE also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Block Craze's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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. Block Craze sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. MAZE asks for nothing beyond the download.
MAZE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Block Craze has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MAZE ships an update weekly, Block Craze every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MAZE | Block Craze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emotion Studio, Inc | Box of Otters, LLC |
Customer experience
MAZE
Block Craze
In-app purchases
MAZE
No in-app purchases
Block Craze
- Handful of Coins$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Stack of Coins$4.99
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- Chest of Coins$9.99
- Vault of Coins$19.99









