Tesserae Trails vs Ocean Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tesserae Trails
A relaxing puzzle game where you blend colored glass tiles by jumping them over adjacent tiles. Progress through a campaign or solve daily challenges to master color mixing and achieve efficient solutions.
- Color blending mechanics
- Tournament-themed campaign
- Daily puzzles
- Star-based progression
- Luminous glass visuals
- Offline play
- No ads or tracking
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Tesserae Trails is a calm, tactile color puzzle inspired by a classic Macintosh game. Each tile is a pane of colored glass. Jump one tile over a neighbor and onto a third: the middle tile is absorbed and your tile blends its color into where it lands. Red over yellow, blue onto orange — mix the three primaries into secondaries and, finally, into a single glowing piece. • A tournament-themed campaign: twelve groups of trails, unlocked level by level • A new Daily Puzzle every day, each with its own color and difficulty • Earn stars for efficient solutions and open up further trails • Luminous glass visuals, fluid animation, and gentle haptics and sound • No accounts, no ads, no tracking — just you and the board • Plays entirely offline Simple to learn, satisfying to master.
Ocean Chess
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Think you know chess? Think again. Ocean Chess takes chess puzzles to a whole new level with boards that break all the rules. Teleport your pieces across the board, step on a transformation tile to become a queen, and watch out for deadly traps! 300 hand-crafted puzzles. One forced solution each. No luck, no guessing — just pure chess logic pushed to its limits. When normal chess feels too easy, try Blindfold mode — memorize the board before it disappears, then solve it from memory. Or race the clock in Time Trial and see how fast you can think. Every puzzle is a new challenge. Every solution is satisfying. Are you smart enough to solve them all?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tesserae Trails at none against Ocean Chess's 6. Tesserae Trails also leads on ads (none vs shown). Ocean Chess's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Ocean Chess sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Tesserae Trails asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tesserae Trails ships an update monthly, Ocean Chess every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Tesserae Trails | Ocean Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Moellering | Theodor Norenberg |
In-app purchases
Tesserae Trails
No in-app purchases
Ocean Chess
- 500 Coins$0.99
- 1200 Coins$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- 2500 Coins$3.99
- 6000 Coins$7.99
- 25000 Coins$29.99
Questions
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