Comparison

Forest vs Marek

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Forest

Guide a swift fox through a beautifully crafted premium runner. Jump, soar, and dash through a living woodland filled with challenges and collectibles. Enjoy a complete game experience with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Precision jump controls
  • Dynamic day-night cycle
  • Weather systems
  • Power-up pickups
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Living forest environment
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FOREST RUN - Premium Endless Runner Guide a swift fox through an endless forest in this beautifully crafted premium runner. Jump, soar, and dash through a living woodland filled with challenges, collectibles, and stunning effects. PREMIUM EXPERIENCE One price. Complete game. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just pure, uninterrupted gameplay. FEATURES Precision Controls Master the variable jump system - tap briefly for short hops, hold longer for powerful leaps. Every jump is exactly what you make it. Premium Polish • Particle effects that bring the forest to life • Dynamic day-night cycle • Weather systems including rain • Smooth animations and screen effects • Professional sound design Game Center Integration Compete globally on leaderboards and track your personal best. How far can you run? Power-Up Pickups Discover shields, magnets, and jetpacks scattered throughout the forest to extend your run and boost your score. Living Forest Navigate a beautiful forest environment with parallax scrolling, animated trees, and atmospheric effects. Simple to Learn, Hard to Master Easy one-touch controls make Forest Run accessible to everyone, but mastering the timing takes skill and practice. WHAT MAKES FOREST RUN SPECIAL Unlike free-to-play runners cluttered with ads and paywalls, Forest Run is designed as a pure gaming experience. Every aspect has been polished for maximum enjoyment. This is endless runner gameplay at its finest. Perfect for quick sessions or extended runs. Compete with friends, chase high scores, and enjoy a premium mobile game the way it should be. Download Forest Run today and discover how far you can go!

About

Marek

Features
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Marek just wants to reach the door at the top. Gravity, hazards, and his own appetite have other plans. It's a retro-inspired, one-screen climbing platformer: ladders, moving platforms, rolling kegs, bouncing sausages, and fire vents stand between our hero and the top of each level. Clear it and the next round of chaos starts immediately - no rest for the weary. There's a real mystery behind the chaos, too. Someone's launching illegal flying sausages and runaway kegs out of hidden hatches across the country, and only one man is thirsty enough to investigate. Follow the trail level by level, with a bigger comic-panel reveal every few rounds. Forty rounds across eight escalating chapters, each stranger than the last - a taproom, a kitchen, a cellar, a lift shaft, a rooftop, a hilltop monastery, a grand festival, and places even weirder than that. Run out of lives mid-chapter and you bounce back to that chapter's start, not all the way to square one. Clear all forty and Endless mode keeps things going for as long as you can survive it. Controls are simple on purpose: touch anywhere and drag to move, hold still or tap to hop, tap twice quickly for a bigger hop. Prefer a dedicated jump button instead? Switch to two-thumb mode in Settings and the screen splits into a move side and a jump side, either hand. No fiddly on-screen buttons in the default mode, no combos, no menus mid-run. A few things are worth grabbing on the way up. A gold pan makes you briefly hazard-proof. A glowing bottle is a free life, no questions asked. A glowing pretzel is pure bonus points, and frankly, a fine snack. Every level is built for a two-to-three-minute burst, so it's as at home in a waiting room as on a couch. No ads, no analytics, no tracking - Marek works entirely offline, and your best score never leaves your device. Play in English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Czech, Slovak, or Portuguese - switch anytime from Settings. A love letter to the one-screen arcade platformers of old, reskinned with an original, cheerfully chaotic festival theme. Climb fast, dodge the chaos, reach the top.

Screenshots

Forest4 screens
Marek4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Marek at every 2 days against Forest's every 10 months. Marek also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Forest ships an update every 10 months, Marek every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Forest versus Marek: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForestMarek
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB159 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJoel BreckerMatteo Limardo

In-app purchases

None

Forest

No in-app purchases

None

Marek

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forest free?
Forest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Marek free?
Marek is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Forest or Marek have ads?
Neither Forest nor Marek shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Forest or Marek?
Forest ships an update every 10 months, and Marek every 2 days. Most recently, Forest was updated on November 5, 2026 and Marek on November 10, 2026.

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