Swipe War vs ChessTiles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swipe War
Engage in strategic army battles inspired by a classic paper war game. Deploy your forces with unique units and abilities, then swipe to attack your opponent. Compete in ranked matches over the cloud or play against your device.
- Army deployment and unit customization
- Strategic swipe-to-attack gameplay
- Pass and play mode
- Play against AI
- Cloud-based ranked matches
- Inspired by 1970s paper war game
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Swipe War is a battlefield, army vs army strategy game; Swipe War is loosely based on a paper war game played with a pencil by children from the 1970s. To start, players purchase and deploy an army with 40 points. Units have varied costs and abilities, so arrange your army on the battlefield as desired. The player’s army is positioned on the bottom half of the battlefield and they will always swipe up at the enemy army, which is deployed at the top of the battlefield. Play types include pass and play, play against your phone, and the main game: "Ranked Wars" is played over the cloud.
ChessTiles
A unique puzzle game where players clear layered tiles by strategically moving chess-inspired pieces. Each piece has specific movement rules, with a special piece revealed to unlock advanced board traversal.
- Layered tile elimination gameplay
- Chess piece movement mechanics
- Strategic piece placement
- Special piece unlockable
- Single-player puzzle challenges
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Welcome to Chess Tiles! The goal of the game is to clear all the pieces, three layers in all. You can play it on your own or get some help from the brain! Each piece has rules about which locations can be used next. The number pieces reach locations exactly that number of squares away in any row, column, or diagonal. The chess pieces behave like in chess but, other than the knight, they must move all the way to the edge. There is one special piece that is discovered when you clear all pieces in the game past a layer. That special piece can reach any location on the board.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ChessTiles at none against Swipe War's shown. Swipe War's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Swipe War sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and ChessTiles sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Swipe War against 5.0 for ChessTiles. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Swipe War ships an update weekly, ChessTiles every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swipe War | ChessTiles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Markham Enterprises Inc | Serendipity Systems LLC |
Customer experience
Swipe War
ChessTiles
In-app purchases
Swipe War
- 3 Bazookas$0.99
- 3 Trenches$0.99
- 3 Walls$0.99
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- Tri-Pack$0.99
- 3 Reserves$1.99
- 3 Cavalry$2.99
- Remove Ads$4.99
ChessTiles
- Neuron Bundle$3.99
- Large Neuron Bundle$24.99
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