Hook Chain vs Flood Maze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hook Chain
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Pull matching cubes, create satisfying chains, and clear every colorful pattern! Plan each move carefully, keep your slots open, and find the best order to clear the board. New challenges appear as you progress, including mystery cubes, giant blocks, locks and keys, wheel barriers, cube cannons, and more. Think ahead, master every mechanic, and complete increasingly challenging levels!
Flood Maze
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Break the wall. Release the color. Watch the maze come alive. Welcome to Flood Maze: Let It Flow! - a relaxing color-flow puzzle built around one simple pleasure: breaking a tiny wall and watching water spread beautifully across the board. Every Swipe can open a new route. Crack through a barrier, release a stream of color, and watch it pour through narrow passages, turn corners, fill empty spaces, overlap with other water, and activate its matching Shrine. The controls are simple. The flow is satisfying. The puzzle is all about choosing the right opening. SATISFYING WATER ASMR The heart of the experience is the flow. Watch colorful water rush into newly opened paths, splash around corners, spread across large connected spaces, and slowly transform a dry maze into a vibrant flooded board. Every action is designed to feel rewarding: • Walls crack and break apart • Water bursts through the opening • Color spreads smoothly through the maze • Streams overlap and blend visually across the board • Shrines glow when the correct water arrives • Successful routes end with a satisfying completion effect Sometimes one small break can trigger a huge flood across the maze. Swipe. Crack. Splash. Flow. Then enjoy the result. MATCH EACH COLOR Every board contains multiple colored water sources and matching Shrines. Your goal is to guide each color to the Shrine that belongs to it. When the correct water reaches its matching Shrine, the Shrine lights up, completes, and disappears. Clear every Shrine to finish the puzzle. THINK BEFORE YOU BREAK Water reacts instantly when a wall is removed. Before you Swipe, look carefully at the maze and imagine what will happen next. Which color will be released? Where will it spread? Which paths will become connected? Will it reach the correct Shrine? Could it accidentally touch another one? The deeper you go, the more each wall matters. 3 HEARTS Water colors are free to cross and overlap. Blue can flow through an area already covered by purple. Red can pass through the same corridors as yellow. That is completely safe. But if water touches a Shrine of the wrong color, you lose a heart. You have 3 hearts to complete the level. Read the topology, choose your openings carefully, and release the colors in the right order. ONE Swipe, BIG REACTION There are no complicated controls. Just: Look → Think → Swipe → Watch It Flow A single Swipe can: Open a tiny passage Release an entire water source Connect distant parts of the maze Complete a Shrine Trigger a large chain reaction Flood a huge section of the board Small action. Big visual payoff. RELAXING TO WATCH, SATISFYING TO SOLVE Enjoy the contrast between quiet thinking and sudden movement. Study the board at your own pace, then break the wall and watch the maze transform. The combination of flowing water, colorful spreading, soft splashes, breaking walls, glowing Shrines, and large flood reactions creates a calming, satisfying rhythm from puzzle to puzzle. SIMPLE RULES, DEEPER PUZZLES Early levels are easy to understand. As the mazes grow, you will face: • More water colors • More Shrines • Larger connected areas • Tricky wall choices • Multiple possible routes • Release-order puzzles • Risky shortcuts • Bigger flood reactions The interaction never changes - only the decisions become more interesting. Find the right wall. Release the right color. Watch the water spread. And enjoy that perfect moment when the entire maze begins to flow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flood Maze at none against Hook Chain's 10. Hook Chain's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Hook Chain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Flood Maze asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Hook Chain | Flood Maze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 336 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CLOUDPOP | Nguyen Thanh Cao |
In-app purchases
Hook Chain
- Fail Offer$5.99
- No Ads$7.99
- Small Bundle$9.99
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- No Ads Bundle$11.99
- Coin Pack 03$14.99
- Medium Bundle$19.99
- Coin Pack 04$29.99
- Ultra Bundle$34.99
- Coin Pack 05$54.99
- Coin Pack 06$99.99
Flood Maze
No in-app purchases









