Chess Remix vs CombatChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Remix
Explore diverse chess variants and abstract board games from around the world. Create and share your own unique game rules, or challenge others online. Learn new strategies with guided levels and AI opponents.
- Online competitive play
- Create custom board games
- Learn with guided levels
- Play against AI
- Discover community creations
- Play global chess variants
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A new way to play the world's oldest game Love chess but tired of memorising openings? Our competitive online play is focused on thinking fast not learning patterns. Challenge yourself to overcome opponents in a randomly selected Chess Remix. The games all use the standard chess pieces with alternate rules. Can you think quickly and find new ways to win? The whole world's Chess in one place Chess Remix contains Chess games from around the world. You can try Shogi (Japanese Chess), Xiangqui (Chinese Chess), Janggi (Korean Chess), Makruk (Thai Chess) and more. These games have all been styled to look like the Chess you are used to, making it easier to learn for beginners. A journey through the history of Chess Travel back to where it all began, 6th century India, and try Chaturanga, the original Chess. See the games it developed into as it spread across the globe. Play Courier Chess like a 12th century European or test your skills at Tamerlane Chess. Delve into ancient Shogi and experience the progression through different eras of Japanese history. Enjoy a marathon game of the massive Dai Shogi or a quick game of Mini-Shogi. You can even play Hnefatafl, the Chess of the Vikings. Chess 2.0 Chess Remix lets you change the rules and make your own game. Will you invent the next Chess? It's your game play by your rules. You could win by losing the game, start in random places or just have En Passant be a forced move. Don't like casting? You can turn it off. Want a Rook that also moves like a Knight? You got it. There are limitless possibilities (okay technically there is a limit, but there are so many options you could never play all of them). Not just Chess We have so many options to customise your Chess game you can even play Checkers. The app comes pre loaded with a variety of Checkers games from around the world and some ancient versions of the game. You can even play some other abstract board games like Three Men's Morris or even Tic-Tac-Toe. Become more than a Chess Master A standard Chess game has 6 pieces. Chess Remix starts with more than 100. To help you learn them we have hand designed levels to help you understand and use every piece in Chess history and the new rules you might encounter. Unleash your creativity Have you created the next great board game? Or just something cool you would like to show off. Share your creations with the Remix community. Want to play unique games? Need some inspiration? Check out our discover section to see what other players have made. Features: - Competitive online play - Create your own original board games - Levels to help you learn and master Chess - Play against ai - Highly customisable app that reflects your style - Share your creations or play other people games
CombatChess
Experience chess with a twist: captures lead to real-time pixel brawls where the winner claims the square. Manage action cards strategically to win fights and defend your pieces. Features a robust chess engine and arcade-style combat mechanics.
- Real-time pixel brawls for captures
- Action cards for strategic combat
- Persistent damage on pieces
- Six-button arcade combat system
- King can fight to avoid checkmate
- Full-rule chess engine (Stockfish)
- Turn-based online multiplayer
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It's chess. With fists. Combat Chess is real, full-rules chess until a capture is contested. Then both pieces drop into a real-time brawl, and the winner keeps the square. No piece goes quietly. Not even the king. ACTION CARDS: FIGHT FOR THE SQUARE You start every match with 3 Action Cards. When your piece is captured, spend one to force a fight instead of just losing it. Win the brawl and the capture is repelled your piece holds the square and the attacker is removed. Cards are spent win or lose and never refill mid-match, so card management is a whole extra layer of strategy. Run dry, and captures land like ordinary chess. FIGHTS THAT MATTER - Fighting power scales with chess value: pawns brawl at 75 HP, knights and bishops at 125, rooks at 175, queens at a monstrous 275, kings at 300. - Damage persists for the ENTIRE match. Wound the queen now, hunt her down later a health bar follows every piece that has fought. - A pawn can topple a queen. It just takes near-flawless play. SIX-BUTTON ARCADE COMBAT - Left punch (fast jab) and right punch (slow, heavy cross). - Side-matched blocking read the tell and guard the correct side to absorb 80% of the hit. - Timed dodges perfect timing negates all damage and charges your meter. - A stamina system that punishes button-mashing. Burn out and you're exhausted: unable to act and taking 1.5x damage. - Land perfect dodges to unlock the SUPER a single power shot worth 2.5x a heavy punch. Spam loses. Reads win. THE KING NEVER FALLS QUIETLY - In check, you can move out of danger or spend a card to send your king to fight the checking piece directly. - Checkmate isn't automatically the end. It triggers a mandatory final fight: your king duels the mating piece at 300 HP, no card needed. Win the last stand and the mate is broken. This cuts both ways: to beat you, your opponent must finish the job in the ring. A REAL CHESS ENGINE UNDERNEATH - Complete standard chess: castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, and every standard draw rule. - Powered by the Stockfish engine, tunable from 600 to 3190 Elo - friendly beginner to superhuman, with a strength slider for every difficulty in Settings. - Single-player works fully offline. Sound and haptics are yours to toggle. CHALLENGE FRIENDS ONLINE - Turn-based multiplayer through Game Center: invite friends, run several matches at once, and take your time. - Get notified when an opponent moves, captures, or starts a fight with daily reminders before the 4-day forfeit window closes a stalled match. - Built for turn-based play: when you contest a capture, the fight resolves instantly on your own device against a computer-controlled version of your opponent's piece fighting with its true HP and power, including damage it already carries. No waiting around, and your opponent sees a full recap on their turn. EVERY MATCH ON RECORD - Match history with wins, losses, draws, win rate, streaks, per-difficulty records, fight stats, and your biggest upset.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CombatChess at 5.0 against Chess Remix's 4.4. CombatChess also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). Chess Remix's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 5) and device support (4 vs 1). On price 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. Chess Remix sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. CombatChess asks for nothing beyond the download.
CombatChess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Remix has 114 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Chess Remix's written reviews are positive against 100% of CombatChess's.
Chess Remix ships an update monthly, CombatChess every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Remix | CombatChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (114 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Alexander Everett | PUNCHMAN, LLC |
Customer experience
Chess Remix
CombatChess
In-app purchases
Chess Remix
- Remix Royalty$0.991 Month
- Remix Royalty$2.996 Months
- Remix Royalty$4.991 Year
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- Remix Royalty7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Remix Royalty$14.99
CombatChess
No in-app purchases









