Comparison

Chess TD vs Random Royale

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

Head to head
About

Chess TD

Engage in a strategic tower defense experience where you merge and upgrade hero cards to build powerful combinations. Defend your stronghold against an invading army through various game modes, including campaign, PvP battles, and dungeons.

Highlights
  • Merge and upgrade hero cards
  • Strategic tower defense gameplay
  • Campaign mode with daily missions
  • PvP Battle Mode
  • Dungeon escape system
  • Card collection and hero diversity
  • Guild and clan battles
Features
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Chess TD is a story about Toad Stool – The Mighty Wind, a kindness guy with an endless journey to prevent the Dark Lord and his army. During the journey, Toad Stool makes friends with a lot of strong characters and they have the same goal that saving the world. Chess TD will redefine the Tower Defend series with a lot of daily missions, weekly missions, monthly missions. Especially, a brand new campaign mode with a lot of features are waiting for you. Chess TD also have battle mode, where you can challenge and defeat other players Mix and create your most powerful deck combination to defend your stronghold. Collect cards and level up to upgrade your hero. Through battles to find the new card and combine to create a new hero. Endless journey in the big world. Dual with your partner and conquer the dungeon. Complete your collection with diversity cards hero. - Mix and match various kind of hero cards to create a combination that will help you winning other players in Battle Mode - Merge and level up your card hero and play with your partner to get through the dungeon in Dual Mode. - Player will create a new combination with a lot of heroes to defend and against the Dark Lord and his army in Campaign mode - Defend the stronghold from attacks of Dark Lord - Easy to get acquainted - Diverse hero system - Smart upgrade system - Global ranking system - Dungeon escape system - attractive tower climbing - Card collection - Customize tactics - Special PvP system - Diverse mission system with a lot of reward from hero card to gold - Special campaign system - Searching for resources has never been so easy in Chess TD - Many attractive gifts received - Create a guild and build up your empire - Clan battle and world battle - Communicate with players around the world - The difficulty increases with the progress of the game - New Feature like Dual Dungeon will be coming soon - Complete your collection and collect more cards. - Play Dungeon and finding your own cards hero - Free to Play Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/chesstdofficial Discord: https://discord.gg/FY8aBCujWD

About

Random Royale

Engage in real-time PvP defense battles by building a powerful deck of cards. Strategize to acquire new skills, merge powers, and overcome enemies and bosses in diverse environments. Play solo or with friends in this exciting strategy game.

Highlights
  • Real-time PvP defense battles
  • Deck building and card merging
  • Acquire new skills
  • Diverse battle environments
  • Play with friends or random opponents
  • Boss battles
Features
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Random Royale - A new and exciting PvP game experience! Build up a defense better, stronger, fiercer than everything you have experienced in random dice and card games before. How long can you hold out against all the enemies coming for you? Explore and fight your way through slimy forests, great deserts, caribbean beaches, frozen lands, and enchanted castles. Alone or PvP style. Draw cards, acquire new skills, and make your deck invincible. Do enjoy battle mode or are you ready for a party? Play your style only and meet random opponents to compete with. But careful, it's not over until it's over. Are you ready to meet the boss? What makes Random Royale - Kingdom Defense Strategy Game so amazing: Friends: Play and party with your friends or random opponents. Skills: Powerful and fun skills to make you the winner in this clash of cards and build up a great defense! Extras: Free chests, events, clans and more to make this game experience simply amazing! Build a powerful deck of cards, form strategies and theories on how to merge and improve your powers, play with friends, and get straight into powerful battle waves to fight enemies and bosses. Random Royale will have you and your friends come back for more!

Screenshots

Chess TD4 screens
Random Royale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Random Royale at 65% against Chess TD's 23%. Random Royale also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). Chess TD's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Chess TD sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Random Royale sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess TD holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 854 and 471 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 23% of Chess TD's written reviews are positive against 65% of Random Royale's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess TD ships an update every 6 weeks, Random Royale every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chess TD versus Random Royale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess TDRandom Royale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (854 ratings) — better4.3 (471 ratings)
Positive reviews22.8% of reviews65.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings854 — better471
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size491 MB434 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopervmogaNSTAGE Inc.

Customer experience

Chess TD

All ratings854 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive22.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative71.9%

Random Royale

All ratings471 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral11.4%
Negative23.6%

User reviews

Chess TD

From 854 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Awesome game
  • 👍 Interesting gameplay
  • 💡 Unique character design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Login/name input issues
  • 🐛 Game crashes/black screens
  • 🔋 Excessive ads

Random Royale

From 471 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast gameplay
  • 💡 Unique card mechanics
  • 👍 Easy progression for F2P players
  • 🎨 Great art and animations

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • ⚠️ Lack of updates and support
  • 💰 Pay-to-win elements
  • 🕰️ Slow progression for F2P players

Bugs and requests

Chess TD

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Can't type in name on login screen
  • Game crashes on startup
  • Matchmaking with AI players instead of real people

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more slots for characters
  • Improve online multiplayer experience
  • Introduce solo survival mode

Random Royale

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Infinite loading screens
  • Inability to upgrade towers during battles
  • Account sync and login issues
  • Ads and in-app purchases not working

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more cards and game modes
  • Improve matchmaking and party mode
  • Implement a friends system
  • Allow merging of duplicate legendary cards

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Chess TD

One-time14
  • Pile of Diamonds$0.99
  • Wood Offer$0.99
  • Patron Pack$1.99
Show 11 more
  • Beginner Pack Sale$2.99
  • Scoop of Diamonds$4.99
  • Beginner Pack$4.99
  • Silver Offer$4.99
  • Heap of Diamonds$9.99
  • VIP Pass$9.99
  • Gold Offer$9.99
  • Seasonal Battle Pass$9.99
  • Pocket of Diamonds$19.99
  • Sapphire Offer$24.99
  • Bucket of Diamonds$49.99
14 purchases

Random Royale

One-time14
  • Starter Package$1.99
  • Revenge Package$2.99
  • Daily Util Card Package$3.99
Show 11 more
  • Daily Attack Card Package$3.99
  • Double Jewel Pack 1$4.99
  • Jewel 525$4.99
  • Event Jewel Pack 1$4.99
  • Revenge Package 3$7.99
  • Jewel 1,100$9.99
  • Remove Advertising Package$9.99
  • Bronze Tier Package$9.99
  • Growth package 1$11.99
  • VIP Level Pass$19.99
  • Legend Rapid Growth Package$29.99

Questions

Is Chess TD free?
Chess TD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Random Royale free?
Random Royale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess TD or Random Royale?
Chess TD is rated higher. Chess TD averages 4.7 out of 5 from 854 ratings, while Random Royale averages 4.3 from 471 ratings.
Do Chess TD or Random Royale have ads?
Both Chess TD and Random Royale show ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess TD or Random Royale?
Chess TD ships an update every 6 weeks, and Random Royale every 8 days. Most recently, Chess TD was updated on October 15, 2026 and Random Royale on October 14, 2026.

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