Starchess vs Fifteent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Starchess
Experience chess with a unique twist on a three-dimensional board. Pieces gain new movement capabilities, allowing for strategic plays in up, down, and diagonal directions. Enjoy a fresh challenge to your chess skills.
- Three-dimensional chess board
- Traditional chess rules
- Expanded piece movement (up, down, diagonal)
- Unique strategic gameplay
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Starchess has all of the same rules as traditional chess but now on a three-dimensional board. Pieces can move up, down and diagonally.
Fifteent
This sliding tile puzzle offers a more complex challenge than the classic Fifteen Puzzle, incorporating orientation mechanics for advanced problem-solving. It provides a variety of puzzles that require strategic thinking to complete.
- Generalization of the Fifteen Puzzle
- Includes orientation mechanics
- Offers added variety
- Requires subtler techniques
- Challenging gameplay
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Fifteent is a generalization of the classic Fifteen Puzzle, closer in difficulty to a Rubik's Cube, with lots of added variety. This sliding tile puzzle adds orientation to the mix, necessitating subtler techniques to solve.
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Verdict
Starchess and Fifteent are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Starchess against 5.0 for Fifteent. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Starchess ships an update every 4 months, Fifteent every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Starchess | Fifteent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Lane | Emma Weaver |
Customer experience
Starchess
Fifteent
In-app purchases
Starchess
No in-app purchases
Fifteent
No in-app purchases
