Comparison

Mayor 4000 vs CombatChess

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

Head to head
About

Mayor 4000

Build, zone, and manage your dream city from a small town to a thriving metropolis. Simulate citizens, jobs, and traffic, and balance the books while surviving disasters. Enjoy deep, offline-friendly gameplay with no timers or resource grinding.

Highlights
  • Zone and grow residential, commercial, and industrial areas
  • Build essential infrastructure like roads and utilities
  • Manage city services such as police and schools
  • Balance the economy with taxes and ordinances
  • Survive and rebuild from natural disasters
  • Deep offline-friendly sandbox gameplay
Features
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Mayor 4000 is a pure city-building simulation made for mobile. No timers. No energy. No resource grinding. Build, zone, and manage your dream city. Start with a small town and grow it into a thriving metropolis where every citizen, job, and traffic jam is simulated month by month. You're the mayor. Every decision is yours: • Zone & grow — Lay out residential, commercial, and industrial zones and let neighborhoods rise on their own, from low-density streets to towering high-rises, as demand, land value, and desirability allow. • Build the infrastructure — Streets, avenues, highways, rail, subways, power grids, and water networks your citizens depend on. • Run the services — Police, fire, health, schools and universities, parks and landmarks. Fund them well, or watch your coverage crumble. • Balance the books — A real supply-and-demand economy links homes, shops, and factories. Set taxes, pass ordinances, issue bonds. • Survive disasters — Fires, earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes strike a living city. Rebuild from the rubble. • Keep them happy — Pollution, crime, traffic, and unemployment all matter. City reports, alerts, and resident requests keep the pressure on your decisions. • Expand your region — Connect multiple cities across an entire region and grow them together. Play your way: • No resource grinding, no waiting timers, no energy bars — open the game and build. • A true sandbox — no forced quests or objectives. Your city, your rules, your pace. • Deep, offline-friendly gameplay you can pick up anytime. Built for mobile: • Runs smoothly even on huge, densely packed cities, thanks to a from-scratch simulation engine. • One-handed, touch-first controls. No two cities are ever the same — build a leafy green suburb, a dense downtown, or an industrial powerhouse and make it your own. Every city tells a different story. Start building yours today.

About

CombatChess

Experience chess with a twist: captures lead to real-time pixel brawls where the winner claims the square. Manage action cards strategically to win fights and defend your pieces. Features a robust chess engine and arcade-style combat mechanics.

Highlights
  • Real-time pixel brawls for captures
  • Action cards for strategic combat
  • Persistent damage on pieces
  • Six-button arcade combat system
  • King can fight to avoid checkmate
  • Full-rule chess engine (Stockfish)
  • Turn-based online multiplayer
Features
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It's chess. With fists. Combat Chess is real, full-rules chess until a capture is contested. Then both pieces drop into a real-time brawl, and the winner keeps the square. No piece goes quietly. Not even the king. ACTION CARDS: FIGHT FOR THE SQUARE You start every match with 3 Action Cards. When your piece is captured, spend one to force a fight instead of just losing it. Win the brawl and the capture is repelled your piece holds the square and the attacker is removed. Cards are spent win or lose and never refill mid-match, so card management is a whole extra layer of strategy. Run dry, and captures land like ordinary chess. FIGHTS THAT MATTER - Fighting power scales with chess value: pawns brawl at 75 HP, knights and bishops at 125, rooks at 175, queens at a monstrous 275, kings at 300. - Damage persists for the ENTIRE match. Wound the queen now, hunt her down later a health bar follows every piece that has fought. - A pawn can topple a queen. It just takes near-flawless play. SIX-BUTTON ARCADE COMBAT - Left punch (fast jab) and right punch (slow, heavy cross). - Side-matched blocking read the tell and guard the correct side to absorb 80% of the hit. - Timed dodges perfect timing negates all damage and charges your meter. - A stamina system that punishes button-mashing. Burn out and you're exhausted: unable to act and taking 1.5x damage. - Land perfect dodges to unlock the SUPER a single power shot worth 2.5x a heavy punch. Spam loses. Reads win. THE KING NEVER FALLS QUIETLY - In check, you can move out of danger or spend a card to send your king to fight the checking piece directly. - Checkmate isn't automatically the end. It triggers a mandatory final fight: your king duels the mating piece at 300 HP, no card needed. Win the last stand and the mate is broken. This cuts both ways: to beat you, your opponent must finish the job in the ring. A REAL CHESS ENGINE UNDERNEATH - Complete standard chess: castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, and every standard draw rule. - Powered by the Stockfish engine, tunable from 600 to 3190 Elo - friendly beginner to superhuman, with a strength slider for every difficulty in Settings. - Single-player works fully offline. Sound and haptics are yours to toggle. CHALLENGE FRIENDS ONLINE - Turn-based multiplayer through Game Center: invite friends, run several matches at once, and take your time. - Get notified when an opponent moves, captures, or starts a fight with daily reminders before the 4-day forfeit window closes a stalled match. - Built for turn-based play: when you contest a capture, the fight resolves instantly on your own device against a computer-controlled version of your opponent's piece fighting with its true HP and power, including damage it already carries. No waiting around, and your opponent sees a full recap on their turn. EVERY MATCH ON RECORD - Match history with wins, losses, draws, win rate, streaks, per-difficulty records, fight stats, and your biggest upset.

Screenshots

Mayor 40004 screens
CombatChess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: CombatChess at free against Mayor 4000's free with in-app purchases. CombatChess also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Mayor 4000's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and ratings volume (53 vs 6). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CombatChess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mayor 4000 has 53 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mayor 4000 ships an update every 3 days, CombatChess every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mayor 4000 versus CombatChess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMayor 4000CombatChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (53 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size460 MB129 MB
Age rating9+9+
Developer婉媚 邵PUNCHMAN, LLC

Customer experience

Mayor 4000

All ratings49 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CombatChess

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mayor 4000

No in-app purchases

None

CombatChess

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mayor 4000 free?
Mayor 4000 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CombatChess free?
CombatChess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mayor 4000 or CombatChess?
CombatChess is rated higher. Mayor 4000 averages 4.8 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while CombatChess averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Mayor 4000 or CombatChess have ads?
Neither Mayor 4000 nor CombatChess shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mayor 4000 or CombatChess?
Mayor 4000 ships an update every 3 days, and CombatChess every 9 days. Most recently, Mayor 4000 was updated on November 10, 2026 and CombatChess on October 31, 2026.

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