Comparison

Maze Crusade vs Case Closed

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

Head to head
About

Maze Crusade

Embark on a perilous maze adventure as a knight tasked with defeating evil creatures. Solve puzzles by matching items to unlock powerful spells, weapons, and defenses while evading a relentless rolling wall of spikes. Upgrade your arsenal and build towers to overcome your enemies and fulfill your king's quest.

Highlights
  • Maze navigation and puzzle solving
  • Item matching for rewards
  • Spell casting for abilities
  • Tower building for defense
  • Weapon upgrades
  • Combat against various enemies
Features
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Chosen by Apple for Best New Games! Thy King has chosen YOU, young Knight, to go on a Maze Crusade! Match wits with evil gnomes, henchmen, gargoyles, ghosts, and sorcerers as you are being chased by a rolling wall of SPIKES through the treacherous maze! Solve the puzzles in the maze by matching items to earn bombs, spells, towers, and magical rewards! Cast spells to ride a magic horse, become invisible, freeze the maze, earn magic armor and more! Get awesome weapons upgrades like a mace and the Super Pulse! Build towers to hurl arrows and fireballs at your foes! Make thy King proud! Maze Crusade is free to play with in-app purchases. To disable in-app purchases on your device, visit the Settings app.

About

Case Closed

Engage in a spy-themed puzzle adventure without time limits or in-app purchases. Guide your hero through challenging missions to collect points and close dossiers, ensuring global safety. The game offers a progressive difficulty curve with tutorials for new elements.

Highlights
  • Addictive puzzle gameplay
  • No time stress or lives system
  • Completely free with no ads
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Tutorials for new items
  • Walkthrough videos accessible
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Case Closed is an addictive puzzle game from 2020, designed to play in waiting rooms and other places, without any time stress or 'out of lives' messages or having to spend money on power-ups. The game is completely free with no advertisements, no banners, nothing. Our hero Casey, having completed 'Spy School' (see Case Open) is now a spy on a mission. His objective is to solve puzzles and close each dossier to help the world stay safe. He will encounter many difficulties and sometime these seem impossible to solve. Whereas in 'Spy School' the problems were static (no moving objects), in real life there are all sorts of things to interact with, and the mission space is often larger than the classroom settings from before. Goal: Solve 20 dossiers with each a number of missions In each mission guide Casey to the exit by collecting all required points. The game starts with easy levels and builds up to much more difficult levels. Every time a new item is introduced you'll get some tutorial missions. If you register you get 5 skip options which allows you to skip 5 missions of your choice, when you solve a previously skipped mission, you regain the skip. There are several walkthrough videos available on our website, accessable directly from the app by using the pause screen (click on the exit button in the right top when playing a mission). Every mission has been fully tested and can be solved, we guarantee it. We hope you enjoy the game, Jake Solutions

Screenshots

Maze Crusade4 screens
Case Closed3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Case Closed at 5.0 against Maze Crusade's 4.5. Case Closed also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Maze Crusade's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 11.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Maze Crusade sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Case Closed asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Case Closed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maze Crusade has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Maze Crusade's written reviews are positive against 100% of Case Closed's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Maze Crusade versus Case Closed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaze CrusadeCase Closed
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (39 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB52 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMy Evil TwinCornelis Aerts

Customer experience

Maze Crusade

All ratings39 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral10.3%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews320 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral13.4%
Negative14.7%

Case Closed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Maze Crusade

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Game crashes on launch for some users
  • Controls become unresponsive during intense moments
  • Graphical glitches and visual bugs
  • Inventory and upgrade systems not functioning properly
  • Compatibility issues with certain iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • More diverse and customizable maze environments
  • Ability to create and share custom mazes
  • Expanded arsenal of weapons and abilities
  • Improved save/load functionality to avoid progress loss
  • Better optimization for older devices

Case Closed

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Maze Crusade

One-time10
  • Herd of Goats$0.99
  • A Few Holy Grails$0.99
  • Remove Ads$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Pack of 5 Spins$0.99
  • Squire's Pack$2.99
  • Goat Doubler$4.99
  • Band of Goats$4.99
  • Box of Grails$4.99
  • Crowd of Goats$9.99
  • Hutch of Grails$14.99
None

Case Closed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maze Crusade free?
Maze Crusade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Case Closed free?
Case Closed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Maze Crusade or Case Closed?
Case Closed is rated higher. Maze Crusade averages 4.5 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Case Closed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Maze Crusade or Case Closed have ads?
Neither Maze Crusade nor Case Closed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maze Crusade or Case Closed?
Maze Crusade ships an update every 2 weeks, and Case Closed every 2 weeks. Most recently, Maze Crusade was updated on October 20, 2026 and Case Closed on October 10, 2026.

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