Pip King vs Parqués
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pip King
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Pip King is the royal way to play backgammon. Built for fast, intelligent, and beautiful matches — whether you have 2 minutes or 2 hours. ▸ PLAY ANYWHERE, ANYTIME Take on opponents from around the world in real-time online matches, challenge friends in private rooms with a tap, or sharpen your skills against our adaptive AI bot when you're offline. ▸ FAIR ELO MATCHMAKING Every match counts toward your global ELO rating. Climb from Bronze to Pip King across nine ranks and earn coins, diamonds, and exclusive Arabian Palace skins as you progress. ▸ TOURNAMENTS WITH REAL STAKES Enter daily and weekly tournaments with coin buy-ins. Win rounds to advance through brackets and lift the trophy on the Hall of Fame. Champions of the Week earn massive coin payouts every Sunday. ▸ ARABIAN PALACE COSMETICS Customize your game with hand-crafted boards, dice, and checker sets inspired by the royal palaces of the East. Spin the Lucky Wheel daily for free rewards, or try the Palace Wheel for premium prizes. ▸ FRIENDS, RIVALS, AND MILESTONES Add friends, watch their activity, send challenges, and chase weekly leaderboard rewards. Reach 5, 10, or 25 invites to unlock the Recruiter Hall of Fame. ▸ DAILY REWARDS THAT GROW Log in every day to claim escalating coin rewards, complete daily challenges, and progress through the Battle Pass for exclusive limited-time items. ▸ SAFE, FAIR, RESPECTFUL Server-authoritative game state means no cheating. Move validation runs in our cloud — every dice roll is cryptographically randomized server-side. Report and block players you don't want to face again. ▸ PLAY YOUR WAY - Online multiplayer (1-on-1 with global players) - Private rooms (with friends, share by code) - Tournaments (daily / weekly brackets) - vs Bot (no internet required, six difficulty levels including Master "Caliph") - Daily puzzle (one fresh challenge per day) ▸ NO REAL-MONEY GAMBLING Pip King uses virtual coins and diamonds only. Coins have no cash-out value. The Lucky Wheel and Palace Wheel are entertainment features, not gambling. When the matchmaker can't find a real opponent within seconds, you may be matched with an AI bot — coin wagers behave identically. Disclosed in full at https://pipking.web.app/privacy. ▸ ACCOUNT & PRIVACY Sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook, or play as a Guest. Your progress syncs across devices when you're signed in. Read our privacy policy at https://pipking.web.app/privacy and our deletion guide at https://pipking.web.app/delete-account. Welcome to the kingdom. Let the dice fall in your favor.
Parqués
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The parqués everyone grew up with, now online and with the house rules. Two dice, four pieces and one rule that changes everything: capturing is compulsory. If you could capture and you didn't, anyone at the table can call you out and your piece goes to jail. That makes every turn two questions at once: what suits me, and what did the others notice. It is what makes this parqués and not ludo. THE REAL RULES, NOTHING TRIMMED • You leave jail on a double, or on a 1 or a 6 — which frees all four pieces at once. • The piece that captures stays put for the rest of the turn. • Three doubles in a row: your last moved piece crowns or goes to jail, whichever the table agreed. • Safe squares and the home-column entrance are off limits. • And the call-out, with its own punishment for calling it wrongly. BOARDS FOR 4, 6 AND 8 PLAYERS The eight-seat board is a party: eight colours, eight starting squares and a lap so long there is always somebody within reach. FOUR OPTIONAL VARIANTS Walls, a 20-square bonus for capturing, a 10-square bonus for crowning, and a cap of four pieces per square. You pick them when you create the table, and anyone joining sees them before sitting down. BOTS THAT ACTUALLY PLAY Three levels, and what tells them apart is not cheating but how much they fear danger. The hard one weighs what it risks on every square, watches you, and calls you out if you slip. Good for playing alone at three in the morning, and for keeping a game alive when somebody's wifi dies. NOBODY GETS STRANDED A configurable turn timer, or games with no clock and a pause everyone has to agree on. Lose connection and the game plays for you for two minutes, then hands your pieces back where it left them. If everyone drops, the game freezes and nobody loses their seat. WITH WHOEVER YOU LIKE Public tables, an invite link to drop in the group chat, friends by player number, a block list, and spectators who watch without touching anything. AND THE SMALL THINGS THAT MATTER You choose the colour others see you in. Reactions with sound, to needle the player across the table. A replay of every move, so you don't miss what happened while you looked away. Twelve achievements that come from your own record, not from a separate list. All of it in Spanish and English. No sign-up required: pick a nickname and you're in. The email account is optional and only exists so you can take your profile to another phone. THE SUBSCRIPTION, WHICH IS OPTIONAL Parqués is free and complete as it is. The subscription only removes the ads and gives unlimited lives. Monthly — USD 1.99 per month, auto-renewing. The price for your country is shown inside the app before you pay. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. It is managed and cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pixeldunord.com/products/parques/privacy Terms of Service: https://pixeldunord.com/products/parques/terms Pixel du Nord · contact@pixeldunord.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Parqués at daily against Pip King's weekly. Pip King's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Pip King sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Parqués sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pip King ships an update weekly, Parqués daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pip King | Parqués |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hezi Hengel | Bjorn Martin |
In-app purchases
Pip King
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Starter Coins$1.99
- Starter Pack Deal$2.99
- Diamond Pouch$2.99
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- Palace Wheel Spin$4.99
- Diamond Chest$9.99
- Legendary Skin Unlock$9.99
- Palace Wheel - 3 Spins$12.99
- Diamond Vault$19.99
- Palace Wheel 5 Spins$19.99
- Royal Coins$49.99
- Royal Coin Pack$49.99
Parqués
- Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month









