Shock Maze vs Hello, Mario!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shock Maze
Guide a steel rod through an electric maze to reach the goal. Avoid touching the electrified walls to prevent electrocution and game over. A fun and challenging puzzle game for all ages.
- Navigate a steel rod
- Avoid electric walls
- Reach the goal
- Simple drag controls
- Challenging obstacles
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Let him avoid electrocution by electric walls to the goal. [About this Game] Your goal is to navigate a steel rod to avoid electric walls. If you touch the wall, you'll be electrocuted! [How to Play] Drag your finger on the screen to move the rod. Try to reach the goal while avoiding electric obstacles. If you touch, the game is over! This game is good for; - wasting some spare time - satisfying your desire to get a little achievement - family fun time - kids of all ages
Hello, Mario!
Engage with Mario's face by pulling, stretching, and poking him to create various expressions. Add iconic items and characters from the Mushroom Kingdom to the scene. Enjoy interactive play with a built-in feature that encourages screen time breaks.
- Manipulate Mario's face
- Add game items and characters
- Play peekaboo with Mario
- Built-in screen time breaks
- Offline play
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"Hello, Mario!" Are you ready to play? With this free application from the little-kid-friendly My Mario brand, you and your kiddo can play with Mario's face and delight in all his various expressions. ■Make Silly Faces Team up with your kiddo to see how silly Mario can get when you pull and stretch his face or take turns poking and spinning him around. Tap on the ? Block in the top-left corner of the screen and select an icon to make items—like a Super Mushroom, a Super Star, or pipes—and even enemies appear alongside Mario. ■Peekaboo! Invite Mario to play peekaboo by tapping on the leftmost icon in the ? Block menu. Boo may even make a guest appearance! ■Built-In Breaks Good night, Mario! Mario gets tuckered out after playing for a while and will fall fast asleep. At that point no amount of poking can wake him up! This is a great opportunity to take a break and help parents limit their child's screen time. If you want to keep the fun going, you can turn off this feature by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts. ■Play Offline There's no need to be connected to the internet to play this application. After you download it, you're good to go! Operation is not guaranteed for all devices that meet the operating conditions. It may not work properly depending on the device's performance and specifications, device-specific application usage conditions, etc. Please be sure to read the Health and Safety information provided in the application settings before you start playing. Settings can be accessed by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts to access the menu. ©Nintendo
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hello, Mario! at none against Shock Maze's shown. Hello, Mario! also leads on ratings volume (326 vs 31) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Shock Maze's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Shock Maze against 4.6 for Hello, Mario!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello, Mario! has 326 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Shock Maze's written reviews are positive against 90% of Hello, Mario!'s.
Shock Maze ships an update fortnightly, Hello, Mario! every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shock Maze | Hello, Mario! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31 ratings) | 4.6 (326 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.0% of reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 326 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OTOUCH INC. | Nintendo Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Shock Maze
Hello, Mario!
In-app purchases
Shock Maze
No in-app purchases
Hello, Mario!
No in-app purchases
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