Comparison

Starchess vs Illusion Corridor

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.

About

Illusion Corridor

This isometric puzzle game challenges players to manipulate perspective and mechanisms to create impossible paths. Explore seven chapters with 65 handcrafted levels, featuring rotating bridges, sliding platforms, and more. Enjoy a quiet, offline experience with no ads or in-app purchases after the initial unlock.

Highlights
  • Isometric perspective puzzles
  • Manipulate mechanisms and platforms
  • 65 handcrafted levels
  • Offline play
  • No ads or subscriptions
  • Multiple languages supported
Features
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Illusion Corridor is a quiet isometric puzzle game about perspective. Height and distance cannot always be trusted. Rotate golden mechanisms, slide platforms, raise towers, and align paths that should never meet. When the eye believes, an impossible road appears. Seven chapters and 65 handcrafted levels: - A measured journey from intuitive puzzles to concealed mechanisms, linked axes, and three-character cooperation - Rotating bridges, sliding platforms, lifts, hidden doors, crumbling tiles, and night watchers - No ads, energy systems, loot boxes, or subscriptions - Play all 10 levels of Chapter One plus four later chapter previews for free - One purchase permanently unlocks the remaining 51 levels - Fully offline, with no personal data collection - English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese Enter the lone tower, cross the court of mechanisms, and walk through the long night until every impossible path becomes one.

Screenshots

Starchess4 screens
Illusion Corridor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Starchess at none against Illusion Corridor's 1. Starchess also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Illusion Corridor's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Illusion Corridor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Starchess asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Starchess against 5.0 for Illusion Corridor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Starchess ships an update every 4 months, Illusion Corridor every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Starchess versus Illusion Corridor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarchessIllusion Corridor
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathan LaneQingyu Chen

Customer experience

Starchess

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Illusion Corridor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Starchess

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Illusion Corridor

One-time1
  • Full Game$2.99

Questions

Is Starchess free?
Starchess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Illusion Corridor free?
Illusion Corridor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Starchess or Illusion Corridor?
Starchess and Illusion Corridor are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Starchess or Illusion Corridor have ads?
Neither Starchess nor Illusion Corridor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Starchess or Illusion Corridor?
Starchess ships an update every 4 months, and Illusion Corridor every 2 days. Most recently, Starchess was updated on October 13, 2026 and Illusion Corridor on October 1, 2026.

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