PALINGENESIS vs BackCheckers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PALINGENESIS
Experience an album as an interactive music video game. Explore animated worlds, each tied to a song, and uncover a developing narrative through your journey. This unique application blends hand-crafted animation with interactive gameplay.
- Interactive animated worlds
- Music-driven environments
- Unfolding narrative
- Hand-crafted animation
- Visual sequences
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PALINGENESIS is a music video game. The album by GRIGS unfolds as a series of interactive animated worlds, with each environment built around a different song. Created entirely by animator and musician John Paul Grigsby, PALINGENESIS brings together hand-crafted animation, interactive environments, and visual sequences that appear as you move through each world. As you progress through the album, a larger story begins to take shape through the environments and the moments you come across along the way. Listen to PALINGENESIS by GRIGS wherever you stream music. www.johngrigsby.com
BackCheckers
A fast-paced, turn-based hockey strategy board game for two players. It combines dice rolling and strategic movement with real hockey-inspired gameplay for quick, intense matches. Play solo against the CPU or locally with a friend.
- Turn-based hockey gameplay
- Dice rolling with strategic movement
- 2-player local pass-and-play
- CPU opponent mode
- Built-in stat tracking
- Matches 5-20 minutes
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BackCheckers is a fast-paced dice strategy game for hockey lovers and board game fans. Built for two players, it combines dice rolling, strategic movement, and real hockey-inspired play in quick, intense matches. Play a friend across the table, take on the CPU, or use it as a live scoreboard for the physical BackCheckers board game. Every move matters. TWO GAMES IN ONE BackCheckers — turn-based hockey on the rink. Roll, move, shoot and backcheck. Shots, saves, takeaways, breakaways and penalty shots all play out on the board. Odd Man Rush — a hockey-themed checkers variant. Jump your opponent, promote defenders into forwards, and break away one-on-one against the goalie. FOR THE PHYSICAL BOARD GAME A full digital scoreboard for playing BackCheckers on a real table. Game clock, periods, shots, saves, takeaways, breakaways, faceoffs and possession, all tracked live while you play. Log the final score when you're done and it goes straight into your career stats. SHARE YOUR GAMES Send a finished game to whoever you played and it lands in their stats too, once they confirm it. Send it by AirDrop, Messages, or any app you like — and it works whether or not they have BackCheckers yet. STATS THAT LAST Career records across every mode League standings for everyone you play Full box scores, goal by goal Wins, shooting percentage, save records and more PLAY YOUR WAY Pass-and-play locally with a friend Solo against the CPU Digital scoreboard for the physical board game Adjustable rink size, period length, and first-to-five or three-period matches No internet required Matches average 3-15 minutes. Easy to learn, but every decision counts. PRIVACY FIRST No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No data collected. BackCheckers works entirely offline and your stats live on your device. When you share a game, it travels inside the link itself — there's no server holding your record of it. Bring the intensity of hockey to your fingertips. Download BackCheckers and start competing today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BackCheckers at every 3 days against PALINGENESIS's every 9 days. PALINGENESIS's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
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 — 4.9 for PALINGENESIS against 5.0 for BackCheckers. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PALINGENESIS ships an update every 9 days, BackCheckers every 3 days. Both last shipped on September 13, 2026.
| Parameter | PALINGENESIS | BackCheckers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 741 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Paul Grigsby | Real Weird World LLC |
Customer experience
PALINGENESIS
BackCheckers
In-app purchases
PALINGENESIS
No in-app purchases
BackCheckers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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