Comparison

Maiman's Dream vs Slackwire

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

Head to head
About

Maiman's Dream

Features
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nter Maiman’s Dream, a handcrafted puzzle game built around light, color, and clever optical machinery. Move and rotate mirrors, prisms, beam splitters, filters, color changers, and other components to guide laser beams across the board. Mix red, green, and blue light to create new colors, activate every target, and avoid dangerous obstacles. Each puzzle introduces new possibilities. A simple reflection can become a carefully engineered network of split beams, color transformations, and precisely timed connections. Features: • Handcrafted laser puzzles across multiple chapters • Additive RGB color mixing • Mirrors, prisms, splitters, filters, benders, and more • Intuitive tap, hold, and drag controls • Undo and redo support • Progressive level unlocking • Portrait and landscape play • Distinctive hand-drawn laboratory style • Atmospheric music and sound effects Study the board, experiment with the available pieces, and discover the path that brings every target to life.

About

Slackwire

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Slackwire is a puzzle about joining cables into loops. Every loop plays music. The board is a panel of cut cables bolted to a plate. Tap a piece of cable and it swings. Bring two cut ends together and they join. Close a whole run and a spark sets off around it, playing one note for every cell it crosses. A loop's shape decides its melody. Where it sits decides how high it sounds, and the number of cells it covers is the length of its phrase. Two loops of different lengths drift against each other and come back together. While you work, the loose ends crackle on their own, in the key of the room you're in. Close a loop and the notes that were already sounding fall into rhythm. WHAT'S IN IT Eight rooms. Each has its own scale, reverb, cable colors and set of four instruments. You move to a new one every few panels. Panels that grow. The first is a single ring of four pieces. Later ones tangle, and once the plain board is familiar, cables start to cross over each other. No score, no timer, no way to lose. No notifications and no streaks. Put it down in the middle of a panel and nothing is spoiled. No account, no analytics, no internet. It works on a plane. PRICE Slackwire is free, with no ads and nothing locked.

Screenshots

Maiman's Dream4 screens
Slackwire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Slackwire at none against Maiman's Dream's shown. Slackwire also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Maiman's Dream's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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

Maiman's Dream ships an update weekly, Slackwire daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Maiman's Dream versus Slackwire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaiman's DreamSlackwire
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVincent Tze Ee NgKevin Spence

In-app purchases

None

Maiman's Dream

No in-app purchases

None

Slackwire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maiman's Dream free?
Maiman's Dream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slackwire free?
Slackwire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Maiman's Dream or Slackwire have ads?
Maiman's Dream shows ads; Slackwire does not.
Which is updated more often, Maiman's Dream or Slackwire?
Maiman's Dream ships an update weekly, and Slackwire daily. Most recently, Maiman's Dream was updated on October 6, 2026 and Slackwire on October 13, 2026.

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