Comparison

Ball Maze vs Threadbreaker

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

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About

Ball Maze

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Roll. Collect. Escape. Ball Maze is a cozy pixel-art maze game. Roll your ball through 30 hand-built mazes across 6 floating worlds — Forest, Desert, Ocean, Volcano, Winter, and Ruins. Collect every coin to reveal a hidden golden key, then slip through a secret door to the next stage. Beat the clock for up to 3 stars, and dodge spikes, bombs, and shifting barriers along the way. Made by a 9-year-old This whole game was designed and built by a 9-year-old (3rd grade) using an AI coding assistant — every world, every maze, and every hidden door. A real game, made by a real kid. FEATURES - 6 themed worlds, 30 hand-built mazes - Hidden keys and secret doors - Beat-the-clock star ratings - Simple one-hand on-screen joystick - Swipe between floating islands - Works fully offline — no account, no sign-up FAIR & FAMILY-FRIENDLY - No ads. Ever. - No subscription — the Forest world is free, and one small one-time purchase unlocks all 6 worlds. - Rated 4+ — no data collection, no chat, safe for kids. Roll on!

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Threadbreaker

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The Loom writes impossible patterns. You break them. Threadbreaker is a precision bullet-hell action roguelite built around a promise procedural games usually break: fresh challenges that stay readable, fair, and worth mastering. Play on iPhone Duo with an adaptive arena, controls, and menus. Changing displays pauses your run so you can adjust your grip and resume the same run. Every 42-room Revision chooses three shifting sectors from five before entering the Prime Line, drawing eight arena looks from a world of twelve. A deterministic Choreography Engine recombines curated attack phrases, enemy roles, arena shells, and guardian phases while preserving gold telegraphs, recovery beats, and real escape lanes. Every run changes. The rules do not. Read the warning. Find the opening. Step through danger. Graze enemy fire to charge Thread. Then Sever stitched bullets and cut your own path through the pattern. Choose one of twelve cosmic Breakers, each built around the same honest collision core. Combine four Frames and six Weapon Cores with thirty upgrade Knots. Discover named synergies. Push a build far enough to transform its Core into a run-defining capstone. Eight enemy archetypes move and attack differently. Six guardians change body, movement, and pattern language across three readable phases. An original reactive score rises with telegraphs, low Integrity, Sever readiness, and guardian transformations. And when the run ends, it becomes something you can study. Run History preserves the build, room scores, damage sources, grazes, biggest Sever, and cause of defeat. Loom Theater recreates the performance in Cinema mode or overlays honest, moment-by-moment Coaching—without changing the recorded result. ALSO INCLUDED • Daily Score with a shared deterministic seed • Guardian Archive rehearsals and Endless Margin • Earn-only Remnants for permanent gameplay breadth, cosmetics, and prestige • Optional one-time Ad-Free and Full Loom purchases; no subscription • Touch and extended-controller support • Story, Standard, Sharp, and Impossible difficulty • Wider lanes, extra Integrity, automatic Sever, reduced effects, high contrast, left-handed controls, and more • Offline-capable core play with graceful network-service fallbacks • A voiced live How to Play demonstration that teaches by showing Fresh should not mean arbitrary. Hard should not mean cheap. Learn the pattern. Find the thread. Break it.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ball Maze at none against Threadbreaker's 3. Ball Maze also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Threadbreaker's advantage is device support. On price 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. Threadbreaker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Ball Maze asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Ball Maze versus Threadbreaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBall MazeThreadbreaker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Monthly
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size270 MB105 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSoyeon NohRob Rightmyer

In-app purchases

None

Ball Maze

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Threadbreaker

One-time3
  • Upgrade to Full Loom$2.99
  • Ad-Free Threadbreaker$3.99
  • Full Loom Unlock$6.99

Questions

Is Ball Maze free?
Ball Maze is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Threadbreaker free?
Threadbreaker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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