Orion Backgammon vs Backgammon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orion Backgammon
Experience live backgammon with real players worldwide. Compete in weekend tournaments, climb ranked leagues, and collect unique game boards. Play with friends and join clubs in this fair and friendly digital adaptation of the classic game.
- Live online matches with real players
- Weekend Masters tournaments
- Ranked leagues with seasons and rewards
- Collectible handcrafted boards and dice
- Club creation and friend challenges
- Provably fair dice rolls
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Orion Backgammon is live backgammon with real players: a Masters tournament every weekend, leagues to climb and legendary boards to collect. Call it backgammon, tavla, nard or shesh besh: this is your table. WEEKEND MASTERS Every Friday to Sunday, enter the Masters, climb the live standings and win your share of a guaranteed gem prize pool. Champions are crowned with a ceremony. PLAY LIVE Real opponents in real time, match play, the doubling cube, and dice you can verify: every roll is provably fair. CLIMB THE LEAGUES Win ranked matches, earn trophies and rise league by league through a season with its own pass and rewards. TRAVEL ICONIC TABLES From a cafe on the Bosphorus to Monte Carlo: play on handcrafted boards, dice and checkers, and collect legendary sets. CLUBS AND FRIENDS Found a club, chat, challenge your friends and earn rewards for inviting them. FAIR AND FRIENDLY Gold and gems are virtual items only: no real-money betting, no cash prizes. Available in 44 languages. Download free and take your seat.
Backgammon
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Backgammon and long nardy with dice you can actually check. DICE YOU CAN CHECK Before each game the app seals the whole sequence of rolls and shows its fingerprint. You can add your own phrase, so the app cannot choose a convenient sequence in advance. After the game you get the key and can recompute every roll — in the app, on our website, or with any standard HMAC tool. The computer's level never touches the dice, and neither does any purchase. A STRONG COMPUTER THAT EXPLAINS • Five levels, from beginner to master, calibrated by error rate • Hints: the best move shown right on the board • Coach: after a mistake, learn in plain words why another move was better • Game review: error rate, luck of both sides, your costliest moves • Replay any position with the same dice TWO GAMES IN ONE • Backgammon with the doubling cube, matches up to 11 points, Crawford and Jacoby rules • Long nardy under standard tournament rules: the head rule, no six-point wall, mars • Play against the computer or with a friend on the same phone LEARN AND IMPROVE • Interactive rules lessons on a live board • Your statistics by game and level, with your error rate over time • Dice statistics against fair odds: doubles, entries from the bar, hits YOUR WAY • Real dice mode: roll your own dice and enter the results • 30 boards, from walnut and marble to regional styles • Simple mode with big buttons, light and dark appearance, color-blind friendly highlights • English, Russian, Turkish and German • Works offline, no account needed; progress can be kept in your own iCloud FREE AND PRO Everything to play is free: both games, all levels, matches, verification, review, statistics and 6 boards. You get 3 hints a day against the computer, plus 3 more for an optional video, and a short ad after every second game — never during a game. Pro is a one-time purchase: no ads and unlimited hints, forever. More boards are available separately. Questions: support@kohone.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Orion Backgammon at none against Backgammon's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Orion Backgammon sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Backgammon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Orion Backgammon | Backgammon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 228 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ARTHEA LLC | Maksym Beskrovnyi |
In-app purchases
Orion Backgammon
- 80 Gems$0.99
- 500 Gems$4.99
- 1,200 Gems$9.99
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- Season Pass$9.99
- 2,600 Gems$19.99
- 3,600 Gems$49.99
- 8,000 Gems$99.99
Backgammon
- Forest board$0.99
- Winter board$0.99
- Cosmos board$0.99
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- Neon board$0.99
- Paper board$0.99
- Ceramic board$0.99
- Bamboo board$0.99
- Steampunk board$0.99
- Malachite board$0.99
- Kids board$0.99
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