Tiny Gambit vs Colonia Ares
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Gambit
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Small moves. Big puzzles. Guide Arin or Mira through colorful islands in a chess-inspired puzzle adventure. Walk one or two steps, then watch each opposing color reply. Read the board, capture the pieces in your way, and reach the treasure safely. LEARN BY PLAYING An interactive introduction teaches movement, captures, and enemy replies. Discover all six chess pieces and inspect their reach whenever you need a closer look. These are original puzzle rules inspired by chess, not a traditional chess match. KEEP YOUR MIND MOVING Play 20 introductory puzzles, then continue through endless generated challenges. Every board has a solution without tools. Earn up to three stars, retry for free, and return to improve your best result. A LITTLE ADVENTURE EVERY DAY Try the daily puzzle, collect daily gifts, and spend earned coins on optional hints and tools. Share your achievements and compare progress through optional Game Center leaderboards. PLAY YOUR WAY Choose your hero, adjust music and haptics, and use board labels, larger text, VoiceOver, or Reduce Motion. Core puzzles work offline; ads, purchases, and Game Center require a connection. Progress is saved on your device. Tiny Gambit contains automatic ads and optional rewarded videos. A one-time Remove Ads purchase permanently removes automatic full-screen ads. Rewarded videos remain optional. No subscription. Play offline. Progress is saved locally and syncs to your private iCloud database when iCloud is available.
Colonia Ares
Establish and manage a Martian colony in 2089. Build essential modules, care for colonists' needs, research new technologies, and terraform the planet to create a new home for humanity. Survive environmental challenges and explore the solar system.
- Build and upgrade over twenty modules
- Manage colonist needs and happiness
- Survive Martian environmental hazards
- Research technology tree
- Explore the solar system
- Terraform Mars to 100% habitability
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Year 2089. Earth is exhausted, and a small group of explorers lands on Mars with one mission: turn the red planet into a new home. In Colonia Ares you run the base. Build modules, keep oxygen, water, food and energy flowing, and look after the people who live there: every colonist has a name, a job, a personality and friendships. • BUILD AND UPGRADE: solar panels, oxygen generators, greenhouses, labs, batteries, reactors… more than twenty modules with three levels each. • CARE FOR YOUR PEOPLE: colonists get tired, miss Earth, fall ill or argue. If they stay unhappy for too long, they may leave. • SURVIVE MARS: dust storms, breakdowns, day and night, and tight resources. • RESEARCH: a technology tree with four branches to unlock new modules and upgrades. • REQUESTS FROM EARTH: complete timed orders and build streaks to earn more. • EXPLORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM: build the Ares I ship and send expeditions to Phobos, Deimos, the asteroids, Ceres and Europa. • TWO COLONIES: found an outpost on Phobos, mine crystals and connect both colonies with cargo routes. • TRADE: sell your surplus to Earth and buy what Mars can't make. • TERRAFORM: raise habitability to 100% and watch the planet change colour and fill with life. • KEEPS GOING WITHOUT YOU: the colony keeps working while the game is closed, and you never lose everything at once. Pixel art, relaxing music and play at your own pace – in English, Spanish and German. Ads are always optional: you only watch one if you want help (speed up a build, fix a breakdown…). The one-time "No ads" purchase gives you the same help without watching ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Colonia Ares at 15.0 against Tiny Gambit's 18.0. 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. Tiny Gambit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Colonia Ares sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tiny Gambit | Colonia Ares |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Murat Yilmaz | Francisco Jose Morales |
In-app purchases
Tiny Gambit
- Remove Ads$11.99
Colonia Ares
- No Ads$2.99









