Comparison

Shotgun King vs Ninefall

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

Head to head
About

Shotgun King

Experience a unique twist on chess where you command a king armed with a shotgun. Fight your way through enemy pieces, strategically reload, and upgrade your abilities to reclaim your kingdom. This roguelike chess adventure offers challenging gameplay and extensive replayability.

Highlights
  • Chess with a shotgun mechanic
  • Roguelike progression with upgrades
  • 15 difficulty ranks
  • Unlockable cards
  • Over 100 achievements
  • Endless and chase modes
Features
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Chess, but all your army has gone over to the white side, leaving you with nothing but your royal shotgun and your wounded pride. Carried by your dark folly, you decide it's time to teach those white pieces to fear the Shotgun King. Every turn, you may either move your king or shoot at enemy pieces, after what you'll need to move again to reload your shotgun. Avoid checkmate and kill the enemy king to complete the floor. After each floor, you may choose between two random combinations of one upgrade for you and one upgrade for the other side. Choose wisely and keep on winning floors and you just may get your kingdom back. Runs may take ~20 minutes to complete. The game features 15 ranks of difficulty, unlockable cards, over 100 achievements to complete, an endless mode, and now a chase mode where you get continually assailed from all sides!

About

Ninefall

Features
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FREE TO START The first two worlds and the Daily Flip are free. One purchase unlocks everything else, forever: six more worlds, every secret, the full One-Shot ladder and the Sandbox. No ads, no tracking, no account. Every tile holds a number. Play one of yours onto it: the values add, the tile flips, and every lower-numbered neighbor topples after it, domino-chaining across the board. The catch: past 9, numbers roll over. 6 + 6 = 2. The goal: clear it all with a handful of numbers. That one rule hides the depth. Greed has a price, nines are fortresses, zeros are scalpels. And one perfect placement can flip the whole board in a single, glorious GRAND CASCADE. A JOURNEY OF EIGHT WORLDS 96 hand-calibrated levels teach the game by play, never by text. Stones block, seals lock, ice cracks, bombs level everything beside them, traps must never flip, wormholes carry your cascade across the board, and shifter tiles grow with every move you make. Collect a world's gems and its secret level appears. EVERY LEVEL CERTIFIED FAIR Each puzzle ships machine-verified: always solvable, par always exact, never cheap. Unlimited undo and a solver-powered hint are built in. Thinky, never punishing. THE DAILY FLIP One board, the whole world, every day. Keep your streak (one automatic repair a month, because life happens), and share your result without spoilers. FLOURISHES, NOT STARS Every level carries one optional master-goal: clear it in a single placement, never roll over, end on a 9. No grinding, no ratings, just elegance. MADE LIKE A TOY Chunky ceramic tiles that flip with real weight, synthesized marimba cascades that climb as your chain grows, haptics choreographed to every topple, Day and Night themes, Home Screen widgets for your streak, and in the large sizes today's Daily board and your numbers (extra-large on iOS 27). PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no tracking, no account. Playable offline.

Screenshots

Shotgun King4 screens
Ninefall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ninefall at Free against Shotgun King's $6.99. Shotgun King's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and chart position (#97 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Ninefall is free to download; Shotgun King costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shotgun King ships an update every 5 days, Ninefall fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Shotgun King versus Ninefall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShotgun KingNinefall
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (709 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings709 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#97 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size468 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPlug In DigitalThomas Sobstyl

In-app purchases

None

Shotgun King

No in-app purchases

None

Ninefall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shotgun King free?
Shotgun King costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ninefall free?
Ninefall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shotgun King or Ninefall have ads?
Neither Shotgun King nor Ninefall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shotgun King or Ninefall?
Shotgun King ships an update every 5 days, and Ninefall fortnightly. Most recently, Shotgun King was updated on October 18, 2026 and Ninefall on September 20, 2026.

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