Comparison

TR vs Chess Peace

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

Head to head
About

TR

Uncover a WWII-era mystery by navigating a vast archive of obscure texts. Communicate with a handler through an interactive audio drama to find a stolen book and unravel the secrets of the machine's creators before it's too late.

Highlights
  • Narrative deduction gameplay
  • Interactive audio drama
  • Archive exploration
  • Link obscure texts
  • Uncover creator secrets
  • Dynamic dialogue system
Features
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A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out. The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working. Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Destroy the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late. NARRATIVE DEDUCTION - Deduce links through the archive to locate hidden sources. - Unravel the stories and unearth the secrets of the books’ authors and the machine's creators. - Map the archive and find the book that will rewrite the world. INTERACTIVE AUDIO DRAMA - Talk with your handler at any time, creating a dynamic audio drama that responds as you explore. - Featuring the voices of Rebekah McLoughlin (The SCP Archives, Eternal Threads), Paul Warren (A Highland Song, Viewfinder, The Séance of Blake Manor) and Phillipe Bosher (Baldur's Gate 3, Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). - Original soundtrack by Laurence Chapman (A Highland Song, Heaven's Vault, The Mask of the Rose). INSPIRATIONS TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like The Roottrees are Dead and The Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA. Written and created by the award-winning team behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song.

About

Chess Peace

Engage in a peaceful chess puzzle experience offline, with no ads or account required. It offers thousands of challenges suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to grandmasters, with daily puzzles and extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Offline play
  • No ads or account required
  • Thousands of puzzles
  • Daily Puzzle feature
  • Extensive customization
  • Progress syncing via iCloud
  • Accessibility options
Features
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• A peaceful chess puzzle, played offline with no ads or account • No chess knowledge required — a new challenge for grandmasters and beginners alike • Thousands of puzzles plus a free Daily Puzzle every day • Available on iPhone, iPad & Mac, with your progress & settings synced via iCloud With over 26,500 unique puzzles across three difficulties and five different puzzle types, and a new Daily Puzzle every day, you play with just the board and six piece types — King, Queen, Rook (Castle), Bishop, Knight and Pawn — to find each satisfying solution. -- Daily Puzzles -- Build your streak by playing a new Daily Puzzle every day, share with other players via our Wordle-style solve grid, as well as a customised image showing the puzzle alongside the stats of your solve. -- Five Unique Puzzle Modes -- • Classic: One of each piece, one board, no captures. • Multiples: Some pieces are copies of each other. Same rule applies: no captures, only peace. • Two-Colour: White and black pieces share the board. Pieces only threaten the opposing colour. • Islands: Two boards, one puzzle. Only the Knight can jump the gap. • Presets: Some positions are revealed, but the pieces remain unknown. -- Find Your Zen through endless customisation -- Unprecedented personal customisation of the gameplay screen and menus, including subtly animated backgrounds, on/off toggles for nearly every visual element, and three distinct sets of gameplay sounds. Find your own Chess Peace in every puzzle, with customisation synced across devices. Also choose from many app-wide colour themes, board styles, and over 30 alternate app icons. -- Great chess learning tool, with no experience required -- If you're not a chess player, don't worry — Chess Peace teaches you everything you need to know, with a quick refresher on hand whenever you need it, as well as an optional possible moves system that shows every move possible by any piece on the board. -- Complete play history & in-depth statistics -- Replay your every solve move-by-move, and track your progress with granular statistics. Not your thing? Hide them using Zen and never seem them again. -- No data connection or account -- Everything is stored inside the app, with no connection required and no data collected. Your progress is synced via iCloud, available only to you. -- Home & Lock Screen Widgets -- Add some Chess Peace to your home and lock screens and jump straight into your next puzzle, or keep up your Daily Puzzle streak. -- Accessibility -- As well as supporting iOS Accessibility options, several additional accessibility features make Chess Peace as inclusive as possible, including colourblind mode, high contrast, bold icons, letters instead of piece icons, large text, reduced motion, and adaptable controls that can be brought to the top or bottom of the screen.

Screenshots

TR4 screens
Chess Peace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chess Peace at Free against TR's $6.99. Chess Peace also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (89% vs 67%). TR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On 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

Chess Peace is free to download; TR costs $6.99 up front. Chess Peace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. TR asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess Peace holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 139 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of TR's written reviews are positive against 89% of Chess Peace's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TR ships an update every 6 days, Chess Peace fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
TR versus Chess Peace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTRChess Peace
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (37 ratings)4.9 (139 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews89.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37139 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size527 MB186 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperinkleSam Shepherd

Customer experience

TR

All ratings37 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

Chess Peace

All ratings139 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive89.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.9%

In-app purchases

None

TR

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chess Peace

One-time2
  • Premium Unlock$8.99
  • Premium Unlock$11.99

Questions

Is TR free?
TR costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Peace free?
Chess Peace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TR or Chess Peace?
Chess Peace is rated higher. TR averages 4.5 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Chess Peace averages 4.9 from 139 ratings.
Do TR or Chess Peace have ads?
Neither TR nor Chess Peace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TR or Chess Peace?
TR ships an update every 6 days, and Chess Peace fortnightly. Most recently, TR was updated on October 24, 2026 and Chess Peace on October 24, 2026.

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