Comparison

War.app vs Fantastic Chess

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

Head to head
About

War.app

Engage in strategic turn-based warfare on thousands of community-created maps. Enjoy fair play with no pay-to-win mechanics, and compete against players worldwide or tackle challenging single-player levels. Customize your experience with flexible settings and a variety of in-game cards.

Highlights
  • No pay-to-win
  • Single-player and multi-player modes
  • Cross-platform play
  • Asynchronous games
  • Customizable game settings
  • Thousands of community maps
  • Clans and tournaments
Features
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If you like Hasbro's RISK® game, you'll love War.app! War.app (previously known as Warzone) is a deep, skill-based online strategy game inspired by classic board games but built for modern multiplayer. Fair, Skill-Based Gameplay • No pay-to-win, ever. All games are equally fair for all players. • Luck-free: By default, War.app games are determined entirely by your skill. Single-Player & Multiplayer • Active community: Over 10,000 multi-player games are played every day. • Cross-platform: You can play from your phone, tablet, or computer. You can play against other players no matter what platform they're on. All for free! • Join a clan and compete in clan wars! • Games can be up to 400 players, and can be free-for-alls, teams, co-op, and more! Endless Maps & Customization • War.app has a very flexible engine. When creating games, you have hundreds of settings you can tweak to create anything from a minor variant to a whole new experience. • There are thousands of maps to choose from, all made by the community. Or you can design your own! Maps range from small brawls to epic conquests with 4000 territories. • Play against real people, or play any of the thousands of single-player levels against the computer. Both are 100% free. • Community levels: Play single-player levels from the community, or make your own level and watch replays of other players defeating it. • Cards: War.app has a variety of cards with varying effects, like the Diplomacy Card, Spy Card, Airlift Card, Blockade Card, and more! • Mods allow extending the game engine. No installation required. Play at Your Own Pace • Faster games: All players can take their turn at the same time. Your friends don't need to be all be online at the same time to play with them. Take your turns when it's convenient and War.app will wait for you. Competitive Play • Compete in tournaments, ladders, clan wars, quickmatch. War.app has a highly active competitive community. • Quickmatch: QM makes it easy to jump into multi-player by matching you with players of equal skill on templates you like playing. • Open Games: If Quickmatch isn't to your liking, you can always browse through a list of games made by other players, or make your own! Truly Independent • War.app is an indie game in the truest sense of the word, as the entire game is made by a single person known as Fizzer, who has been developing the game since 2008. • Fizzer hopes to continue developing this game for the rest of his life. Terms of service: https://war.app/TermsOfService RISK® is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc. War.app is not affiliated with Hasbro, Inc.

About

Fantastic Chess

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Chess, exactly as you know it — until your opponent's queen turns into a dragon. Fantastic Chess is real chess with a twist: before every match you pick three magic cards. Freeze a piece for two turns. Teleport a knight across the board. Bury a hidden bomb. Take a free extra turn. Every rule of chess still applies. You just have three ways to break someone's plan. WIN WITH CHESS. WIN WITH MAGIC. Cards don't replace the chess — they raise the stakes on it. A card spent badly costs you tempo you'll never get back. A card held one move too long is a card you never played. Knowing when is the whole game. 19 SPELLS. 39 CARDS. Dragon burns a path across the ranks. Ice freezes a piece where it stands. Warp teleports. Bulwark drops an immovable stone. Phoenix brings a fallen piece back. Bomb, Curse, Shield, Swap, Summon, Bayonet, Rewind, Royal Pardon and more — many in three escalating tiers. Earn packs by playing; there's no wall between you and a full collection. PLAY REAL PEOPLE Quick match pairs you with someone at your rating in seconds. Play a friend with a room code. Climb four independent ranked ladders — Rapid, Bullet, Chess 960 and Variants — because they're four different games. Rematch instantly with colours swapped, and see your head-to-head record against anyone you've faced before. SIX BOARDS, ONE GAME Standard 8x8. Chess 960 with its 960 starting positions. And four compact variants — 5x5 Gardner, 6x6 Los Alamos, 7x7, and a layered 10x10 where pawns open up to three squares and en passant applies to every square they skip. Same cards. Completely different geometry. A CAMPAIGN WORTH FINISHING Six named opponents, each with a signature card and a deck built around it. Sir Gareth turtles behind Bulwark. Mira freezes you out. Erebus opens with Dragon III. Beat one and you keep their signature card. A new Boss arrives every week with a global leaderboard. GET BETTER, NOT JUST LUCKIER Every finished game is analysed move by move — accuracy score, blunders, brilliant moves, and an estimated rating for how you actually played. Scrub back through any position mid-match. Replay any archived game. Puzzle Rush trains the tactics; the review screen tells you what to fix. PLAY YOUR WAY Portrait, one-handed, on any phone. Bots from complete beginner to roughly 2000 Elo. Clocks from 1+1 bullet to 10-minute rapid. No ads, ever. Full offline play against bots. English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Nederlands and Italiano. Free to play. Free to finish. Card packs and gems are optional. Chess has been the same game for 500 years. This is what happens when you give both players a spellbook.

Screenshots

War.app4 screens
Fantastic Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

War.app and Fantastic Chess are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. War.app sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Fantastic Chess sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
War.app versus Fantastic Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWar.appFantastic Chess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB257 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRandy FickerKIS Consultancy B.V.

Bugs and requests

War.app

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when playing cards
  • Progress loss after updates
  • Unresponsive controls
  • Map loading issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved map editor on mobile
  • Pass and play local multiplayer
  • Clan/team features on mobile
  • Difficulty settings

Fantastic Chess

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

War.app

Subscriptions2
  • Membership$3.991 Month
  • Idle Premium$8.991 Month
One-time8
  • Mother's Day Sale$3.99
  • 500 Coins$5.99
  • 1,000 Coins$9.99
Show 5 more
  • Super Camp$9.99
  • 2,500 Coins$23.99
  • Halloween Bundle$29.99
  • 5,000 Coins$46.99
  • 10,000 Coins$89.99
5 purchases

Fantastic Chess

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 250 Gems$1.99
  • 600 Gems$3.99
Show 2 more
  • 1500 Gems$7.99
  • 5000 Gems$17.99

Questions

Is War.app free?
War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fantastic Chess free?
Fantastic Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do War.app or Fantastic Chess have ads?
Neither War.app nor Fantastic Chess shows ads.

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