Chess vs 3D Chess Game
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.
3D Chess Game
Experience chess in a realistic 3D environment with customizable boards and sets. Challenge yourself with 25 difficulty levels, analyze games move-by-move, and track your progress with detailed statistics. Perfect for both beginners and experienced players.
- Realistic 3D graphics and animations
- 25 adjustable AI difficulty levels
- Customizable chess sets and boards
- Game analysis and editing
- Detailed player statistics
- Tournament mode
- Position editor
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Play Chess against the computer, in 3D! It feels like playing on a real chessboard and supports human vs computer, computer vs computer, human vs human. - 25 different levels carefully tweaked to challenge you gradually while you progress - Or just pit different A.I. levels against each other and watch! - Realistic 3D models, animations and sound effects - Customizable chess set and chessboard colors (including metal effect!), with 12 presets - Examine any game back and forth, move by move! Edit, resume etc. - Timed and untimed modes with no-penalty undo/redo option - Track your progress from every angle with detailed statistics - Tournament mode with untimed matches against simulated opponents that are calibrated to your skills, are always available, move immediately and never cheat! - Ability to manually edit and play any position, including unusual ones like all knight pieces, multiple kings, no kings etc! - Option to hide valid moves markers, last move trail markers and thinking A.I. markers - Never played Chess before? Quick start tutorial included! - No in-app purchases, not a demo, no locked options!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 3D Chess Game at 4.6 against Chess's 3.2. 3D Chess Game also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 21 months) and review sentiment (76% vs 49%). Chess's advantage is iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 12.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
3D Chess Game holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3D Chess Game has 3.5K ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Chess's written reviews are positive against 76% of 3D Chess Game's.
Chess ships an update every 21 months, 3D Chess Game every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess | 3D Chess Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (73 ratings) | 4.6 (3.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.6% of reviews | 76.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 | 3.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 5.1.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 况 郭 | A Trillion Games Ltd |
Customer experience
Chess
3D Chess Game
Bugs and requests
Chess
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
3D Chess Game
Reported bugs
4 issues- AI makes multiple moves in a single turn
- Game incorrectly declares checkmate or draw
- Crashes and resets after certain actions
- Piece movement issues and inability to make valid moves
Requested features
5 requests- Add online multiplayer mode
- Implement move history and game analysis
- Allow pawn promotion to other pieces
- Improve castling functionality
- Add background music option
In-app purchases
Chess
No in-app purchases
3D Chess Game
No in-app purchases
