GNOME | Logic Puzzle vs Mini Chess 5x4
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GNOME | Logic Puzzle
A logic puzzle game where you deduce the location of enemy ships using cause and effect. Progress through increasingly difficult challenges and sharpen your deduction skills.
- Progressively harder puzzles
- Sharpen deduction skills
- Simple and addictive gameplay
- Fun for all ages
- Great time filler
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The galactic nomads of malicious exploration or GNOMEs have launched an offensive and are heading towards our galaxy. Will you be able to stop them? GNOME is a new type of puzzle game that will challenge your deduction skills. Using basic rules of cause and effect you need to systematically determine the location of enemy, GNOME, ships within the game board. As you progress new challenges will arise that raise the difficulty level and increase the interactions. Learn from allies along the way and earn new equipment to help clear the board. Features: • Tricky puzzles that progressively get harder. • Fun for All Ages. • Download & play for Free. • Exercise for the brain and sharpen your deduction skills. • Simple and addictive game play. • Great time filler. Enjoy!
Mini Chess 5x4
Experience a unique tactical challenge with a smaller board in this classic strategy game. It offers puzzles, achievements, and an endless mode with randomly generated positions. Play completely offline with no ads or data collection.
- 5x4 chess board variant
- Tactical complexity
- Multiple puzzles
- Achievements and unlockables
- Endless position generator
- Offline play
- No ads
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A mini version of the worlds most popular board game. It may look simple on first sight, but do not underestimate the new tactical complexity of a small board. I created multiple puzzles, achievements and unlockables. When you finish all puzzles you unlock and endless position generator, which allows you to play on forever in randomly generated positions. This app is free and has no ads. We also collect no personal data and the app works completely offline. Thanks for giving it a try! :-).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mini Chess 5x4 at none against GNOME | Logic Puzzle's shown. Mini Chess 5x4 also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). GNOME | Logic Puzzle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GNOME | Logic Puzzle against 5.0 for Mini Chess 5x4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
GNOME | Logic Puzzle ships an update every 3 days, Mini Chess 5x4 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GNOME | Logic Puzzle | Mini Chess 5x4 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Wood | Rudolf Dr. Jagdhuber |
Customer experience
GNOME | Logic Puzzle
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In-app purchases
GNOME | Logic Puzzle
No in-app purchases
Mini Chess 5x4
No in-app purchases
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