Chess Puzzles vs Maze Rails
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Puzzles
Enhance your chess tactics with over 100,000 offline puzzles. Train anytime, anywhere, regardless of internet access. Features adaptive difficulty, detailed stats, and various puzzle themes for all skill levels.
- 100K+ chess tactics and puzzles
- Fully offline functionality
- Adaptive difficulty adjustment
- Detailed progress tracking
- Multiple puzzle themes
- Smart hint system
- Customizable board themes
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Sharpen your chess skills Offline with 100,000+ chess puzzles! No Wi-Fi needed, train tactics anytime, anywhere. Perfect for beginners to masters! OffChess offers a massive collection of 100K+ offline chess puzzles designed to challenge and improve your tactical play. Features of OffChess: 1. 100K+ Chess Tactics & Chess Puzzles – Endless tactical challenges, from beginner to master level. 2. Fully Offline – No Wi-Fi? No problem! Solve puzzles anywhere. 3. Adaptive Difficulty – Chess puzzles adjust to your skill level as you improve. 4. Detailed Stats – Track your chess progress, puzzle streaks, and success rate. 5. Multiple Modes – Practice puzzles with specific themes like Checkmate, Mate in 1 chess puzzles, Mate in 2 puzzles, Mate in 3 puzzles, openings, tactics (forks, pins, sacrifices, pawn promotions, zugzwang), and more. 6. Smart Hints – Stuck? Get a nudge in the right direction. 7. Beautiful Themes – Customize your chess board for a personalized experience. 8. Real Chess Games – All chess puzzles are taken from real chess games that you can browse up to move one. 9. Openings - Get chess puzzles that occur in real chess games with the opening you choose like French, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez etc. 10. No ads & privacy friendly chess app 11. Rating - Get your chess rating up by solving puzzles, check stats on how many puzzles you have solved and what's the longest streak you have made. Chess is one of the most popular board and strategy game in the world and you can train chess offline on offChess app with so many puzzles to pick from. For All Levels – Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned chess player, there’s always a new chess tactic for you to try. Train smarter, play better with offline and free chess puzzles on OffChess — rush and download today!
Maze Rails
Guide a ball through intricate maze puzzles by strategically using tracks and movement. This game offers a relaxing experience with no timers or pressure, focusing on thoughtful solutions. Each level presents a unique challenge that gradually introduces new mechanics.
- Handcrafted maze puzzles
- Track and movement mechanics
- Calm and relaxing experience
- No timers or pressure
- Gradually introduced mechanics
- Rewarding challenges
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Guide the ball through beautifully crafted maze puzzles where every path matters. Use tracks, movement, and clever thinking to discover satisfying solutions in a calm and relaxing puzzle experience. Starting simple and gradually introducing new mechanics, each level offers a rewarding challenge without timers or pressure. Take your time, think ahead, and find the perfect way forward.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chess Puzzles at Free against Maze Rails's $0.99. Chess Puzzles also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (39 vs 1). Maze Rails's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On update cadence, 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
Chess Puzzles is free to download; Maze Rails costs $0.99 up front. Chess Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Maze Rails asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Puzzles has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Chess Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 100% of Maze Rails's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chess Puzzles ships an update weekly, Maze Rails fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles | Maze Rails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (39 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Avadhesh Bhunwaliya | NuFrame |
Customer experience
Chess Puzzles
Maze Rails
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles
- OffChess Unlimited$3.99
Maze Rails
No in-app purchases
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