Comparison

Shadow Path vs ECHO

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

Head to head
About

Shadow Path

Features
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Memorize the maze. Escape in the dark. Shadow Path: Memory Maze is a challenging memory puzzle where every second counts. Study the maze while the lights are on, memorize the correct path, then navigate through the darkness and reach the exit before time runs out. HOW TO PLAY โ€ข Memorize the maze before the lights go out โ€ข Navigate using only your memory โ€ข Reach the exit before time runs out โ€ข Complete levels and earn stars โ€ข Use hints when you get stuck โ€ข Improve your times and climb the rankings 120 CHALLENGING LEVELS Explore 120 handcrafted maze levels that become increasingly difficult. Each level challenges your memory, focus, and navigation skills. UNLOCK UNIQUE CHARACTERS Collect diamonds and unlock different characters. Choose your favorite hero and make your journey through the darkness your own. COMPETE FOR THE BEST TIMES Complete levels as quickly as possible, collect stars, and compare your performance with players around the world. NEED HELP? Use Map, Light, and Hint abilities when a maze becomes too challenging. FEATURES โ€ข 120 handcrafted maze levels โ€ข Memory-based puzzle gameplay โ€ข Increasing difficulty โ€ข Unique unlockable characters โ€ข Stars and global rankings โ€ข Map, Light, and Hint abilities โ€ข Clean neon visual style โ€ข Quick sessions perfect for mobile Can you memorize the path before the darkness takes over? Download Shadow Path: Memory Maze and test your memory.

About

ECHO

Navigate a maze using only sound and touch. Your voice creates echoes that reveal the environment, but also attract unseen dangers. Choose your vocalizations wisely to progress through challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Sound-based navigation
  • Voice-controlled echoes
  • Risk-reward mechanics
  • Atmospheric sound design
  • Taptic Engine integration
  • Seventy challenging levels
Features
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A maze with no light in it. You are the only light there is. Touch the screen and your voice goes out as a ring. Walls flare where it passes, then fade back into nothing. What you saw, you have to remember โ€” the dark does not keep it for you. TWO VOICES, AND A PRICE A whisper is cheap and shows you almost nothing: a small circle of the world, close to you. A call carries across a room. It charges the resonators that open sealed doors โ€” and it wakes whatever else is down here, listening. A hundred levels are built on that one choice: how much light is worth how much risk. TWELVE ACTS, DEEPENING The first ones teach you your own voice. Then something that sleeps in the dark learns it too. It cannot hear a whisper. A call, it hears. Later the world stops answering at all, and you cross whole rooms from memory while more than one thing follows the sound of you. FELT, NOT ONLY HEARD Every echo fans out under your palm through the Taptic Engine, in time with the sound. Nothing here is a recording: the soundscape is generated live โ€” a calm pad breathing over near-silence, thinning as the dread rises to take its place. Headphones, if you have them. A dark room, if you can. WHAT IT COSTS Levels 1 to 20 are free. That is the whole hunt: both voices, sealed doors, zones of silence, and four acts spent beside things that come for the sound you make. One purchase opens the other eighty and everything in them: the pack that learns your habits, silence laid over whole maps, and the abyss โ€” which is not the bottom. There is nothing else to buy, ever. No advertising. No subscription. No accounts, no sign-in, and no permissions to grant. ACCESSIBILITY Reduce Motion โ€” from iOS or from the game's own settings โ€” stills the camera shake, the parallax and the pulsing. The echo itself stays: it is the game. Sound and haptics have their own separate controls, and the menus and in-game controls are labelled for VoiceOver. iPhone, held either way. Best alone.

Screenshots

Shadow Path4 screens
ECHO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ECHO at none against Shadow Path's shown. ECHO also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Shadow Path's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Shadow Path sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ECHO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shadow Path ships an update every 3 weeks, ECHO every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 4 level
Shadow Path versus ECHO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadow PathECHO
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size61 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGokberk KARSLIOGLUDashchynski Dzianis

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Shadow Path

Subscriptions2
  • Remove Ads$2.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time3
  • 50 Diamonds$0.99
  • 150 Diamonds$2.99
  • 400 Diamonds$6.99
1 purchases

ECHO

One-time1
  • The Full Campaign$4.99

Questions

Is Shadow Path free?
Shadow Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ECHO free?
ECHO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shadow Path or ECHO have ads?
Shadow Path shows ads; ECHO does not.
Which is updated more often, Shadow Path or ECHO?
Shadow Path ships an update every 3 weeks, and ECHO every 2 days. Most recently, Shadow Path was updated on October 10, 2026 and ECHO on October 25, 2026.

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