Zero Hour Assault vs Chess Meets Necromancy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zero Hour Assault
An audio-only first-person shooter designed for blind and visually impaired players. Experience intense online combat, diverse game modes, and tactical gameplay entirely through sound. Features include a persistent open-world PvP map, base building, and an extensive arsenal of weapons and gadgets.
- Audio-only gameplay
- Diverse game modes (Battle Royale, Zombie Survival, Knife Fight)
- Persistent open-world PvP
- Base building and defense
- Tactical combat mechanics
- Extensive arsenal and gadgets
- Integrated voice chat
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IMPORTANT: THIS IS AN AUDIOGAME Zero Hour Assault is played entirely by sound and is designed for the blind and visually impaired community. Everything is spoken by the game's own voice or through VoiceOver, so you never need to look at the screen. It works with VoiceOver on or off; with VoiceOver on, your gestures go straight to the game. The screen shows menus and messages in large text, and during play the gestures that work at that moment as a map of the screen, your map, your hands and the last spoken message. Please put on headphones for the best experience. Dive into intense, non-stop combat in Zero Hour Assault, an online first-person shooter where strategy, skill and teamwork are the keys to survival, whether you hunt alone or with your team. Fight on your terms: drop into a battle royale where the safe zone keeps shrinking, plant or defuse the spike in Search and Destroy, survive zombie hordes with your team, or prove yourself in duels with only snipers, swords or your bare fists. Key Features: 22 Match Modes: Nine new modes (Battle Royale, Search and Destroy, Team Deathmatch, Kill Confirmed, Hardpoint, Gun Game, Infected, Blackout and Squad Rounds), where everyone gets the same equipment, plus thirteen classic modes such as Capture the Flag, Zombie Survival and Knife Fight. Bots can fill empty seats in most modes. Freedom Fight in Brackenford: Parachute into Brackenford, an open city where the fight never stops. Enter about 60 buildings, climb stairs to the roofs, shatter windows, loot chests, and race for airdrops, control points and helicopter extractions while red zones push you around the map. Build and Defend Your Base: Form a group with friends, get a walled base on the freedom fight map, store loot in its chests, and defend your turf from rival players. If all the bases of your group are destroyed, your group is gone forever! Deep Tactical Gameplay: Aim up and down, land headshots and leg shots, carry a weapon in each hand, fit a silencer, and use a weapon melee attack to disarm and down your foes. Walls stop every bullet. In freedom fight and several modes a fallen fighter is knocked down instead of killed, and friends or teammates can lift them back up before they bleed out. Extensive Arsenal & Gadgets: Rifles, shotguns, pistols, sniper rifles, knives, swords and explosives, plus motors and bikes. Become invisible with the Invisibility Shield, lay traps with TM62 mines, create cover with deployable Barricades, or track your enemies with the Spatial Amplifier. Fair Progression & Rewards: Earn zero tokens by playing and spend them in the store. Every character has the same health, speed and damage; your character is your voice and identity. Climb the rankings and the season pass, unlock titles and cosmetics, complete missions and daily events, and spend event points in the event store. Free to Play: Optional in-app purchases offer zero token packs, a paid account, character voices, cosmetics and other extras. A paid account adds comfort and cosmetics, never combat power. All purchases are made inside the app. Integrated Voice Chat: Coordinate with your team using positional audio to hear nearby allies, or use community voice chat to talk with your whole community across the game, regardless of distance. Your Language: Play in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese or Turkish, with more languages translated by players. Chat has 27 language channels and can translate messages. Made for Touch: On iPhone and iPad you play with touch gestures, and "View touch screen gestures" in the main menu explains every one. iPhone and iPad use the mobile server, built for touch play. Windows players have a separate server on purpose, to keep the game fair for touch players; choose it with "choose server" in the main menu if you want to face them. The battlefield is calling. Gear up, pick your character, and prove your worth. Are you ready for Zero Hour Assault?
Chess Meets Necromancy
Experience a unique turn-based roguelike on a chessboard where you capture enemies to raise them as your own army. Strategize through waves, collect relics, and upgrade your forces to defeat powerful bosses. Offers deep replayability with distinct heroes and persistent traits.
- Turn-based roguelike gameplay
- Raise captured enemies as an army
- Strategic piece movement and combat
- Collect relics and lasting traits
- Multiple heroes with unique abilities
- Offline play and controller support
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Chess you already know. An army you have to raise. Chess Meets Necromancy is a turn-based roguelike played on a real chessboard with real chess movement. Your hero is one piece. Everything you capture is a corpse you can raise. THE RUN Twenty waves across four acts. Enemies move like the pieces they are - grunts step like pawns, lancers leap like knights, imp matrons slide like queens. Clear the board, take a relic, spend your gold, march on. Die and the run is over. RAISE AN ARMY Spend souls next to your hero to raise Skeletons, Bone Knights, Wraiths, Bone Golems and Seraphs. Every summon moves as a chess piece. Give them a stance - Hunt, Hold or Guard - and they act after you, every turn. Army slots are limited, so choose what you bring. RELICS AND TRAITS Nineteen relics, each with levels that stack across a run. Seventeen lasting traits bought in the town between waves: extra turns before a wave lands, fewer enemies per wave, a free summon every wave, bank interest, a doubled army cap. No two runs build the same. BOSSES Ten bosses with real HP bars, from the Ogre Warchief to the Lich King, the Stone Titan and the Brood Queen. Act IV stops sending one king and starts sending a court - the final board holds three at once. THE TOWN Between waves, spend gold. Buy traits, promote your King into a Warlord, hire a new champion, or put gold in the bank and let it earn interest. FOUR HEROES Necromancer, Death Knight, Priestess, Ranger. Each moves differently, starts differently, and each has a relic only they can find. TAP ANYTHING Tap any piece to see its name, movement, attack and health. Gold squares preview where it steps, red squares preview what it can take. Learn the board before you commit. - Plays entirely offline, no required account - No ads, no timers, no energy system - Optional Game Center leaderboards and achievements - No in-app purchases; everything is earned in-run - Game controller support - iPhone and iPad - Pixel art and haptics If you can play chess, you can start. Whether you finish is another question.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chess Meets Necromancy at 5.0 against Zero Hour Assault's 4.1. Chess Meets Necromancy also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 20) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). Zero Hour Assault's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Zero Hour Assault sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Chess Meets Necromancy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Meets Necromancy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zero Hour Assault has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Zero Hour Assault ships an update weekly, Chess Meets Necromancy daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zero Hour Assault | Chess Meets Necromancy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | NBM DIGITAL LTD | Aleksandr Myasoedov |
Customer experience
Zero Hour Assault
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In-app purchases
Zero Hour Assault
- Experience boost, 1 hour$0.99
- Title pack: Veteran$1.49
- 50 event points$2.49
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- backpacks level3$3.99
- 100 event points$4.99
- Gold token pack$5.99
- KelTecP318$6.99
- 250 event points$11.99
- platinum token pack$12.99
- All four character voices$14.99
- paid account 1 month$14.99
- 500 event points$23.99
- hex$24.99
- supreme$24.99
- Master token pack$25.99
- paid account 3 month$44.95
- 1000 event points$47.99
- lord$59.99
- paid account 6 month$89.90
- paid account 12 month$179.00
Chess Meets Necromancy
No in-app purchases
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