Comparison

Starchess vs Anamorph

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

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Anamorph

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Stack blocks until their shadows line up. Every level shows you outlines on the walls — the shadows your finished shape will cast. Build the solid that fits all of them at once. Match every wall and the level is done. The catch: one unbroken line. Your first block goes anywhere on the floor. After that you can only grow from the face of the block you placed last. Touching the rest of your shape is fine — branching is not. And you get an exact number of blocks. Not one more, not one less. Two walls to begin with. Later, a third shadow falls from above. NO WORDS NEEDED The first six levels teach every control without a single line of text. Watch, copy, and you are playing. ENDLESS The board grows, the block count climbs, the shadows multiply. There is no last level. TIME ATTACK One, three, or five minutes. Solve as many as you can before the clock runs out. SEEDS Every puzzle comes from a seed. Same seed, same settings, same puzzles in the same order — on any device. Trade seeds with a friend and race on identical boards. MAKE YOUR OWN Paint a shadow and the game builds a solid that casts it. Share what you make as a short code. QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No accounts. No sign-up. No internet connection at all. Nothing is collected, because nothing ever leaves your phone. Each block rings a note a step higher than the last, and the Taptic Engine answers every placement. Five color themes. Hints when you want them, never in the way. English, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어.

Screenshots

Starchess4 screens
Anamorph3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Starchess at 4 against Anamorph's 1. Starchess also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Starchess versus Anamorph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarchessAnamorph
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathan Lanefutoshi akiba

In-app purchases

None

Starchess

No in-app purchases

None

Anamorph

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Starchess free?
Starchess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anamorph free?
Anamorph is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Starchess or Anamorph have ads?
Neither Starchess nor Anamorph shows ads.

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