
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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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Japanese, Polish, Catalan, Dutch +6 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 57 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 57 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
A really fun and enjoyable roguelike game until you want to 100%. A huge chunk of the achievements are pure luck-based, like the builder achievement, which requires three white cards. To make the matter worse, two of them are locked behind another white card, which result in a total of FIVE white cards. To make the matter even worse, this combo is hard, 1. every white piece has additional 1hp 2. rook has another 4hp 3. everything next to rook can only take 2 damages. Even on ranking 1 it is not auto pass and On top of that, there are a few other achievements that need 5 card combo, but these involves both black and white cards so things are not as messy as builder. Yes, we have search and wildcard now, so things are not as bad as early patches (but the card pool has increased as well). Still, this is insane amount of luck involved. I really think that before allowing to post achievements, the devs must grind the achievements themselves, so that they know how annoying they are! ps. Difficulty-wise I have no complaint. Attila is insanely good and after getting used to it, I passed rank 18-20 the first time (although I got lucky and got indelible memory in two of three runs). And guess what? Getting Attila is also luck-based ffs.
Best new gen rouge-like 2026
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.
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.
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
Wish i could use an actual shotgun in actual chess tournaments
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.
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
Black king if he wasnt a ♥♥♥♥♥
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.
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