ChessCraft vs ORVORA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChessCraft
Explore a chess sandbox where you can customize boards, rules, and pieces. Create unique chess variants, play against an AI, or challenge friends online. Discover and share your custom chess creations with a global community.
- Customizable chess boards and pieces
- AI computer opponent
- Online multiplayer with friends
- Adventure mode with built-in boards
- Chess variant database
- Create new pieces and tile rules
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Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customize chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft is also the world's largest chess variant database. https://www.chesscraft.ca Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent. Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you. When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this: https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1 Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!
ORVORA
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ORVORA is a deterministic strategy game played across three rotating rings. Each turn you move one stone, then turn a ring — and the whole board changes. Guide your stones through your own gate into the golden Nexus. The first player to land three stones in the centre wins. WHAT YOU PLAY • Four bot levels, from a relaxed beginner to a long-thinking master • Two players passing a single device • Private online matches with a short friend code and live clocks • Four interactive lessons that teach every rule on the real board • Three tactical puzzles using the official rules • Post-match analysis: the turning point is free; candidate moves and the evaluation graph unlock with ORVORA Plus ORVORA PLUS A one-time purchase. It removes all advertising and unlocks the candidate-move list and the evaluation graph in match analysis. It never changes the rules, the clocks or the scoring. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ahmetmvural.com.tr/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ORVORA at Free against ChessCraft's $5.99. ORVORA also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). ChessCraft's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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
ORVORA is free to download; ChessCraft costs $5.99 up front. ORVORA sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChessCraft asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | ChessCraft | ORVORA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #90 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stuart Spence | Ahmet Muhammet Vural (AN) |
In-app purchases
ChessCraft
No in-app purchases
ORVORA
- ORVORA Plus$2.99









