Comparison

Heretic Chess vs Dice2Roll

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

Head to head
About

Heretic Chess

Experience chess with a twist where you customize your army by earning coins to buy modifier cards. These cards grant your pieces unique movement abilities, allowing you to create powerful fairy chess pieces and challenge the AI with an ever-evolving army. Play, earn, upgrade, and retry to build your ultimate force.

Highlights
  • Build custom armies with modifier cards
  • Grant pieces new movement abilities
  • Create fairy chess pieces like Chancellor and Archbishop
  • Earn coins through gameplay, win or lose
  • Stack upgrades for powerful piece combinations
  • No ads, wait timers, or energy systems
Features
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Chess, but you build your own army. Start with normal pieces. Lose. Earn coins. Buy modifier cards that give your pieces new movement abilities - a Rook that leaps like a Knight becomes a Chancellor. A Bishop that slides like a Rook becomes a Queen. Stack enough upgrades and your pieces become monsters the AI never saw coming. PLAY → EARN → UPGRADE → RETRY Every game earns currency, win or lose. Losing is part of the plan. Spend coins on modifier cards between games, equip them on up to 5 pieces, and go again with a stronger army. The loop is addictive. The power fantasy is real. 10 MODIFIER CARDS • +Knight - give any piece the Knight's L-shaped leap • +Bishop - add diagonal sliding to a Rook or Knight • +Rook - add straight-line power to a Bishop or Knight • +Camel - the Knight's weird cousin: a (3,1) leap • +Knight & Bishop - create an Archbishop • +Knight & Rook - create a Chancellor • +Rook & Bishop - create a Queen from scratch • And more. Stack them. Break things. FAIRY CHESS PIECES Chancellor. Archbishop. Amazon. Centaur. Names you've seen on Wikipedia at 2am. Now they're in your army, doing absurd things on an 8×8 board. Every upgrade is a real fairy chess piece with movement rules that have existed for centuries, we just put them in your hands. NO ADS. NO WAIT TIMERS. NO ENERGY SYSTEM. Play as much as you want. Progress is real. Every coin you earn stays. Every card you buy is permanent on your save slot. Built with a custom fairy chess engine. Runs entirely on-device. No internet required.

About

Dice2Roll

Features
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Dice2Roll is a dice roller where the roll is real. Six shapes tumble across a felt tray, hit the rails, hit each other, and stop where they stop. Nothing picks a number and draws a die on top of it. Then it hands you the dice. MAKE YOUR OWN DICE Any face can carry anything short. Numbers. Pips, the way a real d6 is marked. Text, emoji, an SF Symbol, or something you draw on the face with your finger. Blank faces too. Choose the resin the die is cast from and the ink on it. Change one face's ink when one face deserves it. A SET FOR EVERY GAME Name a set, switch to it in a tap, and put two sets on one table with a running total for each. Export a set as a single file and send it to the people you play with. They open it, and they have your dice. SET YOUR OWN TABLE Round, hexagon or rectangle. Pick the size, the felt color and the rail color. A small table throws the dice back at each other. A big one lets them run. SAVE THE WHOLE GAME Dice, sets and table saved together under a name. Open it next week and the table is the way you left it. HOLD THE ONES YOU WANT Tap a settled die to lift it onto the ledge above the tray. The next throw goes around it. IT SOUNDS LIKE A TABLE Every clack is a recording of a real die, on felt, against the rails, against another die. Which recording plays is decided by what the die actually hit and how hard, and it is panned to where the die landed. The quiet contacts are kept, because the quiet ones are the rattle. Haptics come off the same collisions. FAIR, AND MEASURED We threw a d6 25,820 times through this physics and counted every face. No face was favored. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No ads. No subscription. No account to make. No analytics, no tracking, no data collected about you. It has nothing to ask the internet except whether you bought the unlock. FREE, THEN ONE PAYMENT Two d6, free, with no time limit and no trial to run out. One payment unlocks the other five shapes — d4, d8, d10, d12, d20 — mixed groups on one table, up to ten dice at once, the face editor, named sets, saved games and the table designer. Nothing renews. Nothing expires. It restores on your next iPhone.

Screenshots

Heretic Chess4 screens
Dice2Roll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Heretic Chess at 3 against Dice2Roll's 1. Heretic Chess also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Heretic Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dice2Roll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Heretic Chess versus Dice2Roll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeretic ChessDice2Roll
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFatma Esra UgurcaNordic Mythos Oy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Heretic Chess

One-time1
  • Supporter Pack$4.99
1 purchases

Dice2Roll

One-time1
  • Full Unlock$2.99

Questions

Is Heretic Chess free?
Heretic Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dice2Roll free?
Dice2Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Heretic Chess or Dice2Roll have ads?
Neither Heretic Chess nor Dice2Roll shows ads.

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