Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is a chess, turn-based strategy and strategy game developed by and published by PUNKCAKE Délicieux.
Released on May 12th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 17 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Japanese, Polish, Catalan, Dutch, Romanian, Vietnamese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 6,420 reviews of which 5,883 were positive and 537 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate into these genres:

Chess Turn-Based Strategy Strategy Rogue-like Action Roguelike Arcade Tabletop Pixel Graphics Choices Matter Retro Atmospheric Action Shooter Rogue-lite Top-Down Shooter 2D Stylized Turn-Based Tactics Cartoon Top-Down

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: yes, you should have one
Graphics: you'll need a screen
Storage: 80 MB available space
Sound Card: if your computer can play sound, you should be good
Additional Notes: in theory, if your computer can run Windows, it can run Shotgun King

MacOS

OS: 10.7 OSX Lion
Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M

Linux

OS: Any 64-bit distro

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

awsome game. a really fun spin on chess that maintains the strategy and planning aspect of the original game. incredibly replayable. so many different things to do every time. Buy this now.

Oct. 2025

My boi taking down an entire kingdom of evil with a shotgun. Are they evil? Eh thats for the historians to decide, and history is written by the victors.

Oct. 2025

I suck at normal chess, so this game is a great escape from that fact. Don't get me wrong, I suck at this too but a bit less

Aug. 2025

Very fun, absolutely worth the price. What makes Shotgun King unique to me is that instead of solely focusing on creating the best build for yourself, you are also focused on trying to give your opponent the weakest possible build, due to the system of tying player upgrades to opponent upgrades. Many times, you will pick a perk not because it is the better one, but because it gives your opponent a weaker upgrade. I got at least ~30 good hours of gameplay out of this game before it got frustrating, which is above average for most roguelikes. The game has two main problems: 1: difficulty curve for the ascension levels is not smooth at all. You'll probably clear the game on your first run or two, and will hold a very high winrate up until ascension 10 or so. At this point, your winrate will quickly fall into the single digits quite rapidly. By ascension 13/14, the game had begun getting incredibly frustrating, and ascension 15 is just plain awful. High difficulty scaling in roguelikes is nothing new, but in these deckbuilder turn-based roguelikes it rarely feels like skill can make up for being unlucky. 2: the way in which difficulty works severely limits which guns are viable. All of the guns are valid at the lowest difficulties, but by the last couple the only playable guns seem to be the Victoria (high damage and accuracy, low ammo and reserves) and Ramesses II (a gun whose mechanic allows you to instantly kill pieces by pushing them off the board). The other guns simply can not keep up, which decreases the variety in gameplay at the higher difficulties. Additionally, unlike many roguelikes where you can acquire nigh-unstoppable builds (binding of isaac, slay the spire, peglin, etc), I never felt like I reached that level of overpowered with a build in this game. This is likely because of the item cap (10 cards, acquired at a fixed rate) and the fact that each item selection made for yourself comes with a strength increase for the opponent.

Feb. 2025

Thanks to this game I realized that chess really needed a shotgun. Perfect game for Steam Deck – fun, short, replayable and only 100 Mb in size

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Frequently Asked Questions

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate received 5,883 positive votes out of a total of 6,420 achieving a rating of 8.87.

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Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate was published by PUNKCAKE Délicieux.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Explore additional content available for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate does not support Steam Remote Play.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.

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