Comparison

HexaWarPlus vs Grandmaster Match 3 Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

HexaWarPlus

Features
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Turn based game allow playing against computer or with friends

About

Grandmaster Match 3 Chess

This puzzle game combines match-3 mechanics with chess piece movements. As your chess understanding grows, the game's complexity and possibilities expand, offering a deeply rewarding experience that evolves with your skill.

Highlights
  • Match-3 gameplay with chess piece movements
  • Progressive complexity based on chess understanding
  • Strategic board vision development
  • Satisfying cascade combos
  • Head-to-head multiplayer mode
  • Chess clock for timed matches
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A match-3 puzzle game with a secret. The better you get, the deeper it goes. Most puzzle games get harder by taking something away — fewer moves, tighter timers, more obstacles. Grandmaster Match 3 Chess works differently. The rules never change. The board never turns against you. But as your understanding of chess movement grows, the game you're playing transforms completely — opening up layers of complexity and possibility that were invisible to you when you started. Day one, you're finding matches. Month one, you're engineering cascades. A year in, you're reading the entire board three moves ahead and setting up combinations that feel like pure genius. The game didn't change. You did. That's the real genius of Grandmaster Match 3 Chess. And once you feel it, you'll spend a lifetime chasing what's next. HOW IT PLAYS Every tile on the board carries a chess piece, and to make a match you move it the way that piece actually moves in chess. Bishops slide diagonally. Knights leap in their signature L-shape. Rooks cut straight across rows and columns. Queens command the board from anywhere they can reach. Tap a tile, watch your legal moves light up, and land on a matching color to make your match. New tiles cascade in from above. Combos chain into each other in deeply satisfying sequences. And when a cascade really gets going, you'll hear it — a run of addictive sound effects that make every chain feel completely earned. It's the kind of feedback that gets under your skin and keeps you coming back for one more game. THE GAME THAT GROWS WITH YOU Here's what separates Grandmaster Match 3 Chess from every other puzzle game on the market: there is no ceiling. A beginner sees one move. An intermediate player sees three. An advanced player sees the whole board as a living system of possibilities — pieces setting up other pieces, cascades planned two turns before they happen, patterns emerging from what looked like chaos. Every level of understanding reveals a deeper level waiting beneath it. You don't need to know chess to start. The highlight system shows your legal moves the moment you tap a tile. The early game is immediately accessible and genuinely fun. But the chess movement rules you're learning aren't just game mechanics — they're a lens, and the more fluent you become, the more the board reveals. A Knight that seemed limited becomes a pivot point. A Bishop's diagonal becomes a cascade engine. A Queen becomes a combination waiting to be unleashed. This is what it feels like to actually get better at something. Not to grind through levels — to grow. HEAD-TO-HEAD MULTIPLAYER When you're ready to test your board vision against a real opponent, multiplayer puts everything on the line. Each player commands one side — White or Black — with a chess clock running. Only your pieces move. The cascade potential is the same, but now another mind is working to outread you in real time. Choose your time control. Play fast and instinctive or slow and surgical. Win or lose, you'll come away seeing the board differently. A GAME WORTH MASTERING Great puzzle games give you a satisfying session. Grandmaster Match 3 Chess gives you something rarer — a game with genuine, bottomless depth that rewards every hour you put into it. The players who pick this up today and stick with it will be playing a fundamentally different, richer game a year from now. Not because the app updated. Because they did. Easy to learn. Endlessly deep. A true Grandmaster challenge. FEATURES Unique match-3 gameplay built on real chess piece movement rules Depth that expands the better you understand the board Satisfying cascade combos with addictive, rewarding sound design Visual highlight system — welcoming for beginners, powerful for experts Live head-to-head multiplayer with chess clocks and multiple time controls A game genuinely worth the time it takes to master

Screenshots

HexaWarPlus3 screens
Grandmaster Match 3 Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HexaWarPlus at none against Grandmaster Match 3 Chess's 1. HexaWarPlus also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grandmaster Match 3 Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HexaWarPlus asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
HexaWarPlus versus Grandmaster Match 3 Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHexaWarPlusGrandmaster Match 3 Chess
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB11 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperElutagBlueWEB Media, Inc

In-app purchases

None

HexaWarPlus

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Grandmaster Match 3 Chess

One-time1
  • Unlock Multiplayer$2.99

Questions

Is HexaWarPlus free?
HexaWarPlus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grandmaster Match 3 Chess free?
Grandmaster Match 3 Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HexaWarPlus or Grandmaster Match 3 Chess have ads?
Neither HexaWarPlus nor Grandmaster Match 3 Chess shows ads.

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