Area Maze vs Slide Puzzle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Area Maze
A logic puzzle app where you calculate unknown areas or lengths within a maze of calculations. It requires only elementary school math skills and is designed to boost imagination and thinking abilities. Solve puzzles to unlock new levels and daily challenges.
- Calculate unknown areas and lengths
- Maze of calculations
- Elementary school math level
- Boosts imagination and thinking
- Unlock new levels
- Daily puzzle addition
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This is a brand new logical puzzle app that has been created by Japanese puzzle designers in collaboration with specialist mathematics and science schools. It has been designed to increase your imagination and thinking abilities to the max! This puzzle features a maze of calculations and the aim is to calculate the unknown area or length as shown by the question mark by using the other measurements which are provided. As there are no decimals or fractions involved, the player only needs an elementary school level of mathematics to have a go; specifically, knowing how to determine the area of a rectangle (length × width = area). Sounds simple enough, right? Well, have a go at finding out the correct answer which the creators have hidden within each of the levels! Even if you come across a level that looks difficult, by sharpening your thinking skills you will surely be able to solve it. And there is nothing like that feeling of accomplishment when you finally solve that difficult puzzle! In order to prevent puzzles from being solved just by looking at the diagram without performing any calculations, the scale of some of the puzzle diagrams has been adjusted to differ from the actual length or area. Clear the number of levels shown to unlock more puzzles! A new puzzle level will be added each day if you meet the conditions. Conditions ・You have completed the beginner and intermediate puzzles. ・You have also completed the new puzzle. ・A new puzzle will be added once per day when you start the app. However, you will not receive all the new levels for previous days in which you didn’t start the app.
Slide Puzzle
This classic puzzle game challenges you to slide numbered blocks into their correct order. Progress through increasingly difficult levels with more blocks and steps. Save your progress at any time to resume later.
- Slide numbered blocks
- Increasing difficulty levels
- Constant save function
- Interrupt and resume gameplay
- Addictive puzzle mechanics
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A classic puzzle game where you slide blocks to rearrange them in numerical order. The higher the level, the more blocks and the number of steps, and the more difficult it becomes. Since it is a constant save function, you can interrupt and resume at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Slide Puzzle at 100% against Area Maze's 51%. Slide Puzzle also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.2). Area Maze's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Slide Puzzle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Area Maze's written reviews are positive against 100% of Slide Puzzle's.
Area Maze ships an update every 6 months, Slide Puzzle every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Area Maze | Slide Puzzle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (5 ratings) | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 5.1.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Happymeal Inc. | Hirokazu Uno |
Customer experience
Area Maze
Slide Puzzle
In-app purchases
Area Maze
No in-app purchases
Slide Puzzle
No in-app purchases
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