
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
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Chess, but all your army has gone over to the white side, leaving you with nothing but your royal shotgun and your wounded pride. Carried by your dark folly, you decide it's time to teach those white pieces to fear the Shotgun King.
Every turn, you may either move your king or shoot at enemy pieces, after what you'll need to move again to reload your shotgun. Avoid checkmate and kill the enemy king to complete the floor. After each floor, you may choose between two random combinations of one upgrade for you and one upgrade for the other side. Choose wisely and keep on winning floors and you just may get your kingdom back.
The game features many unlockable cards, 20 ranks of difficulty, over 100 achievements to complete, an endless mode, an arcade-style chase mode, a new charnier mode where you go raiding the kingdom, mod support, and free content updates.
Runs may take ~20 minutes to complete.
Play with mouse and keyboard, or with a game controller.
Plays great on the Steam Deck!

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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 5.9Kreviews | 92% | — | $1.6M |
| $12.49 | 144ratings | 81% | — | not modelled | |
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肉鸽要素并不深,实际上是有数值计算要素的棋类游戏。 需要一定的对国际象棋残局模式的敏感度。即便在最胡的bd下仍然需要预见每一步带来的后果。 非常有创意,很好玩
This game... could be fun. The concept is nice. The game runs well. So why is it not fun? You see, there are a dozen fun different ways to play and finish the game. Sounds amazing, right? After every wave, you get to choose one of two sets of cards, a buff and a debuff. Different buffs and different debuffs make for different play styles. Some combos are so neat, they even have achievements. So you start playing. You pick a card for a certain play style. Then at next wave, you find out there are no cards to help your play style. Then at third wave, both options will make your play style harder, unbalanced, or very difficult. You find then a card which lets you decide which card you want next turn... Well, ignoring the fact that you can only have so many buffs and you're wasting a buff to pick a buff, there are so many options to pick from that a new player won't know what to pick. Let's not mention some cards effects are entirely obscure (what is an "unicorn" supposed to be. Some descriptions only make sense if you've already played the game), there's no way to save your progress, or to undo bad choices. I'm pretty sure if your goal is specifically playing a harder variant of chess, these are only minor setbacks, and you won't mind the review from someone who loses the game because accidentally killing the pawn which was blocking the bishop from defeating you next turn (and of course, shield mechanic won't help that, just because). But I didn't had fun in the end, or rather, the net balance is negative. Feature creep makes this game an annoying experience, although this design does reinforce the idea you're a dethroned king, being forced to pick between two random options over and over again. YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary), but I wouldn't recommend this game.
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Languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Japanese, Polish, Catalan, Dutch +6 more
| $9.99 |
| 47ratings |
| 82% |
| — |
| not modelled |
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Hours played at review time, across 148 reviews with recorded playtime.
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很有意思,总是会发现一些有创意的小巧思,比如击退棋子直接把黑王击出棋盘触发意外死亡,手雷会弹到棋盘外面、掉进水里会熄火,总是让人玩着玩着发出:呦呵,还能这样
Best new gen rouge-like 2026
[h3] I'd never find a more wretched hive of bloody treacherous, and disgusting scoundrels who keep taking pleasure in tormenting players. I‘m ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fed up with your updates. This bloody ♥♥♥♥ is a house of cards, putting lipstick on a pig does ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nothing but piss me off. [/h3]
It's fun, but pretty basic and once you've played it a couple times it doesn't really feel like there's a ton left to explore.
I love this game. I play it about equally on my Steam Deck and my Laptop. It's simple and easy to understand with much depth and replayability. There have been many updates and the game that we have now far exceeds what we had on day 1, and I was frigging satisfied and happy with what we had then. What the devs have given us now makes the original release look like a proof-of-concept. There are so many buffs and debuffs that combined with the weapons and nature of the gameplay - means you will not play the same game twice. The only constant is round 1 with whichever shotgun you pick, round 3 with the Queen always coming and the final round with the boss fight. I wish that I could play this on my phone too, my hours would probably triple.
fun rougelike but i learned im awful at chess
Chess has been drastically improved with the addition of a shotgun and roguelike elements. This game has a charming sense of humor and will have you itching to push a little further. Different game modes and new content has been added over time.
They put a great accessibility feature behind cheats now, so the game is much harder and less fun. Yay!
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