
Gambonanza is a tactical roguelike that sets chess pieces on a tiny board. Forget traditional chess and embrace the chaos of breaking the balance! Spend your money on rule-bending upgrades, board tiles and pieces. Experiment with illegal combinations and face off against iconic bosses!
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2/day in the week to Aug 23 → 4.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

Gambonanza is a tactical roguelike that sets chess pieces on a tiny board. Forget traditional chess and embrace the chaos of breaking the balance! Spend your money on rule-bending upgrades, board tiles and pieces. Experiment with illegal combinations and face off against iconic bosses!
Enter the wild world of Gambonanza, where traditional chess has been reimagined into a snackable, strategy-packed roguelike adventure. In this game, victory isn’t about capturing just the king; it’s about capturing every single piece on the board through masterful synergies! But be careful, if you waste too many moves the board will crumble around you…

Assemble your ultimate strategy by:
Unlocking Gambits: Discover over 150+ powerful Gambits that alter the rules and properties of your run. Want a wacky army of supercharged bishops? Or to see how many times you can make your enemy skip a turn? That’s Gambonanza!
Upgrading Any Tile: From trapping your enemies in place to enchanting pieces into money-making gold, add yet another tactical twist with a range of different tile upgrades to choose from.
Experimenting Off Board: Learn and exploit a dynamic reserve system that lets you store extra chess pieces off-board. Deploy them at the perfect moment to catch your adversary off guard.
Every element of Gambonanza works in unhinged harmony to help you build the ultimate strategy to overcome a roster of unforgiving boss challenges!

Smaller Starting Boards that Pack a Punch: enjoy the strategic tension of a chess game packaged in snackable and high-impact rounds.
Synergistic Gambits & Pieces: Combine your chess pieces with over 150+ Gambits to unlock devastating combos and strategic surprises.
Dynamic Reserve System: Keep a stock of extra pieces off-board and deploy them at crucial moments to shift the balance of power.
Strategic Board Upgrades: Enhance your chessboard and hone your tactical edge with golden squares, blessing tiles, protective surfaces, and more!
Retro Aesthetic & Quirky Ambiance: Immerse yourself in vibrant pixel art with a nostalgic CRT filter, evoking the playful excitement of a fairground.
Engaging Mini-Games: Test your luck and skill in challenges inspired by pachinko, slot machines, and Gachapon, each offering game-changing upgrades.
Unleash the full potential of your chess pieces and Gambits, build unstoppable synergies, and knock those bosses down a notch with your thinking prowess!
Are you ready to redefine chess? Discover Gambonanza and embark on a strategic adventure like no other!

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Genial rogue-like y un reto mayúsculo. Pese a beber mucho de Balatro, permite desafiarte en niveles que pondrán a prueba todas tus habilidades. No creo que nunca complete el 100%, ya que los niveles superiores tienen demasiadas limitaciones y mi nivel, por ahora, no llega. Recomendado para aquellos apandes del ajedrez que quieran pasar unas horas de un enganche tremendo.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 235 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Conceptually great, and I want to like it, but I just quite can't. Pick up on deep sale I'd say if it seems really appealing to you, 50%+ off. There's potential to it, but I think not including fairy chess pieces was a mistake. With them, there'd not only be a lot more freshness to things, for chess player especially maybe, but also, there'd be more for the Gambits (this game's version of Balatro's Jokers) to work with. The fact that pieces disappear permanently when taken or when they fall off the board also means that it's hard to build something consistent without piece generation, and I can't see myself getting attached to any one piece. The board crumbling as sudden death while making a lot of sense for restricting movement to solve stalemates is also incredibly frustrating when it essentially "steals" pieces from you. Unfortunately as well, it doesn't FEEL great to interact with either. The entire interface feels a bit sluggish, and for a game so heavily reliant on moving chess pieces around, that has to feel better than this. As a final piece of critique here, it also just looks and vibes wise feels a bit too derivative of Balatro. While it pulls that look off pretty okay, it does end up feeling a bit too much like a lack of identity. I REALLY want to/wanted to enjoy this, but as it is currently, it's a refund, despite picking it up at a -35% sale. The android version is apparently cheaper, and I could see myself picking that up in the future.
Me enloquece tanto este juego que hasta creo que me compraré un tablero de ajedrez
Para quem gosta de Xadrez e RPGs, é extremamente viciante.
小丑牌类似GAME,有点难度,最近更新降了点AI的强度
имба, вспоминается shotgun king. однозначно рекомендую
Joguinho gostosinho de xadrez!
Es kommt einfach kein richtiger Spaß für mich auf beim Spiel.
a must-buy if you like balatro and chess. or even one of the 2
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