
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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About
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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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 7.4Kreviews | 91% | — | $1.6M |
| $12.49 | 144ratings | 81% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 148 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Oh ur giga brain? Play with no shields
补票,玩学习版玩了很久,今天看到steam打折买了,发现比学习版多了好多东西,好玩
游戏寿命5小时左右,不值这个价格,高难除了加血就是堆怪,愧称以rogue-like之名。
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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 |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 148 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Великолепная игра, затягивает на ура.
goddd this is so AWESOME. end game builds let you blow through EVERYTHING and its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun
chess is better without rng
Behold! Six villages reduced to ashes and miraculously from them, six charnel houses appear where there once were none, sworn proof of my royal godhood. The crown declares this game to be satisfactory.
Erst einmal sollte ich erwähnen, dass man für dieses Spiel zumindest ein bisschen Ahnung von Schach haben sollte – also zumindest wissen sollte, wie sich die einzelnen Figuren bewegen. Ihr startet mit eurem König und müsst den gegnerischen König besiegen. Bis dahin klingt alles nach ganz normalem Schach. Doch jetzt kommt der Clou: Ihr habt nur eine einzige Figur – euren König – und eine Waffe. Mit dieser Waffe könnt ihr die gegnerischen Figuren aus der Distanz angreifen und zerstören. Euer Ziel bleibt dabei weiterhin der gegnerische König, wobei es im späteren Verlauf sogar mehrere davon geben kann. Solltet ihr eine Runde überstehen, dürft ihr euch eine Verbesserung für euch selbst und gleichzeitig eine Verstärkung für den Gegner aussuchen. Zum Beispiel könnt ihr stärkere Schüsse bekommen, während euer Gegner dafür eine zusätzliche Dame erhält. Und genau so baut sich das Spiel von Runde zu Runde immer weiter auf. Ihr müsst ständig taktische Entscheidungen treffen und gut überlegen, wie ihr vorgeht, denn die gegnerischen Schachfiguren können euren gesamten Run sofort beenden, sobald sie euch schlagen. Shotgun King ist für mich wieder ein tolles Beispiel dafür, wie man ein bekanntes Spielprinzip nehmen und es mit Roguelike-Elementen zu etwas völlig Eigenständigem machen kann.
Decent fun for a little while but nothing I could sink many hours in. Maybe like a 5/10.
Absolutely horrible amount of RNG being on your side required to win, like to a comical level
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