Chess vs Gaia Project
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess
Engage in classic chess with a feature-rich application. Play against AI across ten difficulty levels, challenge friends locally or online, and hone your skills with thousands of puzzles. Customize your experience with various board and piece styles.
- Play against AI or friends
- 10 difficulty levels
- Online and LAN multiplayer
- 38,000+ chess puzzles
- Customizable boards and pieces
- Load/save games (PGN)
- Thousands of classic games
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A well designed chess app with a lot of powerful features. Features: - Play as white or black, against the computer or a friend. - 10 difficulty levels, from novice to grandmaster. - Support online gameplay. - Support LAN game via bluetooth/Wi-Fi. - Include more than 38000 chess puzzles, divided into 13 collections. - Computer hint and unlimited undo for beginners. - Changeable chessboards and piece sets, 2D/3D piece styles. - Load and save games to PGN files. - Autosaving your current game. - Setup position, intelligent validity check. - Randomly go to any point in the current game. - Provide thousands of classic chess games to download, such as grandmaster games, world championship games. - More functions: handicap, view move list, automatic move playback, etc.
Gaia Project
Embark on a strategic journey to colonize the galaxy by mastering terraforming. Each of the 14 unique factions has distinct environmental needs, driving the need to adapt planets for survival. This is the official digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game.
- 14 unique factions
- Peaceful galactic colonization
- Terraforming mechanics
- Adaptable environmental needs
- Official digital board game adaptation
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In Gaia Project, each player controls one of 14 factions striving to peacefully colonize the Terra Mystica galaxy. Each faction has different environmental needs to survive on a planet. These needs have led the factions to master terraforming, enabling them to make different planet types habitable for themselves. This is the official digital version of the board game Gaia Project by Feuerland Verlag. Minimum RAM: 3 GB Recommended RAM: 4 GB Gaia Project is a graphics-heavy board game with advanced AI opponents. Your gameplay speed and AI strength may be limited with older devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chess at Free against Gaia Project's $9.99. Chess also leads on iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 14.0). Gaia Project's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.2) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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
Chess is free to download; Gaia Project costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gaia Project holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 75 and 38 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Chess's written reviews are positive against 59% of Gaia Project's.
Chess ships an update every 21 months, Gaia Project monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess | Gaia Project |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.2 (75 ratings) | 4.0 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.6% of reviews | 59.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 75 — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #124 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 5.1.1 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 371 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 况 郭 | DIGIDICED |
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Chess
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In-app purchases
Chess
No in-app purchases
Gaia Project
No in-app purchases
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