Chness vs Heretic Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chness
Engage in unique chess experiences with a novel multiplayer chess variant and other board customizations. Play with any number of participants in these innovative chess games.
- Novel many-player chess generalization
- Circle chess variant
- Other board variants
- Play with any number of people
- Unique chess experiences
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Chness allows you to play chess variants with any number of people. It includes a novel many-player generalization of chess as well as circle chess and other board variants.
Heretic Chess
Experience chess with a twist where you customize your army by earning coins to buy modifier cards. These cards grant your pieces unique movement abilities, allowing you to create powerful fairy chess pieces and challenge the AI with an ever-evolving army. Play, earn, upgrade, and retry to build your ultimate force.
- Build custom armies with modifier cards
- Grant pieces new movement abilities
- Create fairy chess pieces like Chancellor and Archbishop
- Earn coins through gameplay, win or lose
- Stack upgrades for powerful piece combinations
- No ads, wait timers, or energy systems
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Chess, but you build your own army. Start with normal pieces. Lose. Earn coins. Buy modifier cards that give your pieces new movement abilities - a Rook that leaps like a Knight becomes a Chancellor. A Bishop that slides like a Rook becomes a Queen. Stack enough upgrades and your pieces become monsters the AI never saw coming. PLAY → EARN → UPGRADE → RETRY Every game earns currency, win or lose. Losing is part of the plan. Spend coins on modifier cards between games, equip them on up to 5 pieces, and go again with a stronger army. The loop is addictive. The power fantasy is real. 10 MODIFIER CARDS • +Knight - give any piece the Knight's L-shaped leap • +Bishop - add diagonal sliding to a Rook or Knight • +Rook - add straight-line power to a Bishop or Knight • +Camel - the Knight's weird cousin: a (3,1) leap • +Knight & Bishop - create an Archbishop • +Knight & Rook - create a Chancellor • +Rook & Bishop - create a Queen from scratch • And more. Stack them. Break things. FAIRY CHESS PIECES Chancellor. Archbishop. Amazon. Centaur. Names you've seen on Wikipedia at 2am. Now they're in your army, doing absurd things on an 8×8 board. Every upgrade is a real fairy chess piece with movement rules that have existed for centuries, we just put them in your hands. NO ADS. NO WAIT TIMERS. NO ENERGY SYSTEM. Play as much as you want. Progress is real. Every coin you earn stays. Every card you buy is permanent on your save slot. Built with a custom fairy chess engine. Runs entirely on-device. No internet required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chness at none against Heretic Chess's 1. Chness also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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
Both are free to download. Heretic Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chness asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chness against 5.0 for Heretic Chess. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Chness | Heretic Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emma Weaver | Fatma Esra Ugurca |
In-app purchases
Chness
No in-app purchases
Heretic Chess
- Supporter Pack$4.99








