Starchess vs Illusion Corridor
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.
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.
- Isometric perspective puzzles
- Manipulate mechanisms and platforms
- 65 handcrafted levels
- Offline play
- No ads or subscriptions
- Multiple languages supported
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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.
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Verdict
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.
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Both are free to download. Illusion Corridor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Starchess asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Starchess | Illusion Corridor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Lane | Qingyu Chen |
Customer experience
Starchess
Illusion Corridor
In-app purchases
Starchess
No in-app purchases
Illusion Corridor
- Full Game$2.99
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