Starchess vs Wormy
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.
Wormy
Navigate a gravity-bound grid world as a segment-based worm. Solve logic puzzles by pushing rocks, activating mechanisms, and collecting items to find the exit. Beware of obstacles that can divide your worm, requiring coordinated control of multiple segments.
- Logic puzzle gameplay
- Physics and gravity mechanics
- Interactive level elements (buttons, gates, eggs)
- Level editor for custom challenges
- Hand-crafted levels
- Minimalist art style
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Wormy is a clever logic puzzle game that challenges your spatial awareness and problem-solving skills in a gravity-bound grid world. Navigate through narrow underground burrows, gather apples, and find your way to the exit. Guide your segment-based worm through increasingly complex mazes where physics dictate every move. Push heavy rocks out of the way, step on buttons to open locked gates, and safely deliver fragile eggs to their nests. Watch out for sharp scissors that can cut your worm segment by segment, dividing your body into multiple worms that you must coordinate and control. Features: - Hand-Crafted Levels: Progress through a series of unique, logic-driven puzzle challenges. - Interactive Mechanics: Leverage buttons, gates, keys, locks, spikes, and nesting eggs to clear your path. - Physics & Gravity: Move rocks and eggs carefully, keeping in mind that unsupported objects will fall. - Built-in Level Editor: Design your own custom levels, playtest them instantly, and export them. - Premium Art Style: Enjoy a minimalist, beautifully themed hand-drawn earth aesthetic. Can you wiggle your way out?
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Verdict
Starchess and Wormy both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Starchess's written reviews are positive against 0% of Wormy's. Starchess also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Wormy's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Starchess against 5.0 for Wormy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Starchess's written reviews are positive against 0% of Wormy's.
Starchess ships an update every 4 months, Wormy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Starchess | Wormy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Lane | Michel Morcos |
Customer experience
Starchess
Wormy
In-app purchases
Starchess
No in-app purchases
Wormy
No in-app purchases
