Skilltree Saga vs VocalChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skilltree Saga
Embark on a rogue-like RPG adventure in a fantasy world. Choose your race, battle random monsters across 100 levels, and enhance your character with numerous skills and spells. Collect gear, manage resources, and strategize in turn-based combat to defeat dark forces.
- Rogue-like elements
- Randomly generated opponents and treasures
- Skill tree with numerous spells
- Turn-based combat
- Gear collection and management
- Up to 100 deep stages
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Skilltree Saga is the first casual RPG with Rogue-like Elements in Aventurien - the world of The Dark Eye. Choose your race as human, elf or dwarf and battle your random generated opponents in up to 100 deep stages with numerous skill, which you can advance and enhance. Story A sinister spawn of orks and goblins led by the Dark Ruler Sargul are besieging the city of Griffonford. To make matters worse, your beloved, the daughter of Baron Griffontrue, was abducted and you desperately try to take up pursuit. After being rescued from an ambush of a group of goblins by a master of the mysterious Elemental Knight you have the marvelous opportunity to become part of this alliance society. Following the intensive training it is up to you to defeat the sinister spawn that is about to mercilessly enlarge their numbers to occupy Aventuria. Motivating Rogue-like Elements Random generated monsters and treasures are waiting for the brave Elemental Knight in the margraviate of Griffonford. Pillage a multitude of gear, which you must equip to enhance your attributes like Strength, Cleverness or Constitutiton. On the market square you can buy or sell equipment. Use astral potions to replenish your Astral Energy or invest diamonds to purchase even more helpful potions. Round-based Duelling Well-thought approaches are mandatory to put up a fight against the sinister spawn! Choose from a variety of skills, damage your enemy with wind and water magic or bring them to their knees with powerful fire spells. You’ll be in need of those when you come across hordes of orks and goblins. Your opponents know how to fight back as well. They use skills to make them stronger, tougher. They enfeeble your attributes or let dangerous rain down on the adventurer. Skilltree with numerous spells of the Elemental Knights You start as a nobody adventurer and choose your race as human, elf or dwarf. In your conflicts against the sinister spawn you will acquire experience to get steadily more powerful. Through level ups you’ll collect Adventure Points to enhance your skills and learn new spells. Up to 100 level deep challenging dungeons, Rogue-style! Choose between various adventures that you’ll try to master. On plenty of stages you’ll encounter dangerous fiends and you can find twinkling treasure chests or bracing healing fountains. At times you’ll come across a shady goblin merchants, who will sell you items on your troublesome journey. Should you fail your quest you’ll have to start anew, but become more experienced. Only the most mighty ones will challenge the heavy end bosses and can immortalize their name as a hero in the hall of fame. ----------------------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: www.facebook.com/HeadupGames www.twitter.com/headupgames www.instagram.com/headupgames If you experience problems with the game or if you have feedback send us an email: support@headupgames.com
VocalChess
Play chess hands-free by speaking your moves. The app recognizes voice commands for piece movements, captures, castling, and promotions. It's designed for blindfold training and offers an offline, private experience.
- Speak chess moves naturally
- Hands-free gameplay
- Blindfold training mode
- Offline and private operation
- Adjustable engine difficulty
- Move history navigation
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Play chess against a chess engine on your iPhone by speaking your moves. Say "knight f3", and the move lands on the board. The engine answers aloud, so you can keep your eyes off the screen. VocalChess is built for players who want to play hands-free and train blindfold: holding the position in your head. Say it the way you think it • Pieces: "knight f3", "bishop takes e5", "knight b takes d2". • Pawns: "e4", "e takes d5". When only one move can capture on a square, "takes d5" is enough. • Castling: "castle kingside", "castle queenside". Promotion: "e8 promotes to queen". • Your words appear on screen as you speak, and the app waits while you pause mid-move. • Say "undo" or "take back" to take a move back, or "resign" to end the game. You can also tap the board. It asks before it guesses • When the app is sure, the move plays at once. • When it isn't, it asks "Did you say …?" and you answer yes or no, by voice or by tap. • When nothing legal matches what it heard, it shows "Say again". It never plays a move you did not say. Choose your game • Tap the play button for a new game: pick one of six levels, from Novice to Master, and play as White, Black or Random. • Step back through the game with the move buttons, or say "back", "forward", "start" or "latest". Looking back never changes the game. • Close the app mid-game and pick up where you left off. Hear the game • The engine's reply is read aloud in a natural voice that runs on your iPhone: "Black, knight f6". Check and the result of the game are read too. • Turn on "Speak my moves" to hear your own moves read back as well. • You can talk over the app while it speaks. Blindfold • Tap the eye to hide the pieces. The squares and coordinates stay; the position lives in your head. • With the board hidden, every move is read aloud, yours included. Private and offline • No account, no ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases. The app sends only anonymous usage counts, never what you say, and Settings turns them off. VocalChess runs on iPhone with iOS 26.5 or later, and hears and speaks moves in English. The open-source licences of the software the app ships, including the chess engine's source link, are in Settings → Apps → VocalChess → Acknowledgements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: VocalChess at Free against Skilltree Saga's $0.99. VocalChess also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). Skilltree Saga's advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
VocalChess is free to download; Skilltree Saga costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VocalChess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skilltree Saga has 38 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Skilltree Saga ships an update monthly, VocalChess every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Skilltree Saga | VocalChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 248 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Headup GmbH | STUDIO MARABEL LLC |
Customer experience
Skilltree Saga
VocalChess
In-app purchases
Skilltree Saga
No in-app purchases
VocalChess
No in-app purchases
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