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A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic
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. Runs may take ~20 minutes to complete. The game features 15 ranks of difficulty, unlockable cards, over 100 achievements to complete, an endless mode, and now a chase mode where you get continually assailed from all sides!
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Very fun, well made game that executes well on the base concept. my only complaint is that there's no way to save progress on a run, and the game resets if you don't play for long enough. with save files it would be an easy 5 stars.
- Bridget Ravensbergen · v1.1.28-google
Absolutely love it! Well worth my money
- Jon D · v1.1.28-google
very good
- Debjyoti chatterjee
The game is pretty fun, but it has some issues, mainly with the mobile experience: - text font and color can be hard to read on a phone screen - run cannot be saved (as far as I can see). For me, for a phone rogue-lite this is a deal breaker. I play the game while waiting or on small downtime between activities, but losing all progress of a run because I couldn't play without a break makes me want to play something else instead
- Bogdan Hobinca · v1.1.28-google
Very fun game
- MyXperiaActiveDev Sony · v1.1.28-google
an instant classic, perfect port to mobile.
- Ersen · v1.1.28-google
turn based battles with some chess and some shooting. tons of fun
- Baolau Oh · v1.1.28-google
If you choose not to sign into a google account to play then the game will send you to a "failed to log in to google account" screen with only one button to try again to log in, I don't like being strongarmed into logging in to an account I dont want to use, and there appears to be no other way to make the game run
- M · v1.1.28-google
nice
- Clash Pass2
I really enjoy it is cool game
- Tom Brian Iversen
the google play account integration is annoying and unskipable.
- 1 1 · v1.1.28-google
fun
- Adam Holmes · v1.1.28-google
Shotgun King is a solid game with simple mechanics that grow complex when stacked and allows for all sorts of strange builds. While certain things aren't explained in full, it's a roguelike, so you're expected to learn through runs One star down because it doesn't autosave after every complete level, and sometimes just restarts if you go to another app, which is kind of annoying when I'm playing at the bus stop, swap to my transit app, and come back to see my progress all gone.
- Surge Surgington · v1.1.28-google
Yep.
- Jess Horserage · v1.1.28-google
This game made me 1000 elo
- Fen Z
highly recommend
- Eugene Floreen
awesome game, great roguelike to play on a phone.
- John Hopkins · v1.1.28-google
very fun
- Aleah Shane Maquinano
peak
- Danny boi · v1.1.24-google
Very nicely made. Appears to be too easy at the beginning, but gets very demanding and complex, requiring careful strategies. I like it.
- Corrupt Ranger · v1.1.24-google
Mobile controls feel good! Game mechanics are identical to the pc version, and the latest update is promised to come to android too!
- Rattenus Rattoonus · v1.1.24-google
amazing strategy game trust
- Gage Huffman · v1.1.24-google
super game
- mr tech master
very nice game , If you think you might like it, you probably will.
- Tim Bradley · v1.1.24-google
I like it
- Airon Gavidia · v1.1.24-google
I bought this thinking it could be a really fun spin on chess. It's not. Chess is really just a thematic backdrop to a game about studying and understanding a massive array of random power ups and how they will affect you. Most power ups just make things more complicated to track so you have to go more and more slowly. I also absolutely will not get over the fact that the opposing king is allowed to put you in check; just makes no sense if you play chess and removes a lot of strategic interest.
- D · v1.1.24-google
the chess accurate movement really blends well with the double barrel shotgun
- Trenton Lattrell · v1.1.24-google
Good game, had it on Steam for a long while, glad to see it on mobile.
- wargex · v1.1.24-google
I've never played any game that makes me hate myself so much. one star off because this game really needs a moron mode to say "don't make that move or else 15 minutes of your life was just wasted because you didn't see the special exception rule that will get you killed"
- Michael Vilches · v1.1.24-google
love chess, and this game is a blast... because of the shotgun
- Andrew Watson · v1.1.24-google
cool concept
- CrazzyJ0123 · v1.1.24-google
started a few minutes ago but man its pretty fun , no complaints so far
- b miwa
peak
- Jonah Pronovost · v1.1.24-google
love it
- Chris Cloyd · v1.1.24-google
still waiting for mid run saves and the latest update but overall goated game.
- Pedro Rexius · v1.1.24-google
amazing!!
- Jashum · v1.1.24-google
so close to being perfect, but the discovered checks are poor game design
- Gage Swearingen
honestly shocked how much I fell in luv with this game. it made chest for me at least enjoyable
- December Morales · v1.1.24-google
really good game, weird that it doesn't save your progress mid-run.
- Hugh Nelson · v1.1.24-google
cool game
- Conner Mansukhani · v1.1.24-google
i absolutely love this game being on mobile like this and have always loved shotgun king the only thing I dislike is the aiming I would prefer a setting where you aim directly from the king instead of the stick type aiming that's it's just how I would enjoy it more through a setting and I hate having to reset every time I have to do anything else so it's down another star would be five stars if those things were changed
- Roy Estrada III · v1.1.24-google
best version of chess
- Axel Vaulton · v1.1.24-google
I love this game so much on my ps5 and was BEGGING for it to be ported to mobile! finally got my wish 😀 the controls work well and the game is just so addictive, I can't put it down and I'm playing it even more than before on PS.
- DatBoiRazzz
Great game but like others have said, the inability to save progress mid-run makes it unplayable. If you switch to another app, you have to start the run over. Literally the only thing that takes this from 5 stars to 1.
- Alex Levites · v1.1.24-google
goty
- Lucas Diaz
this game is genuinely painful experience, there are so few white cards that add pawns, filling the back row with minor and major peices with no pawns to keep them from swarming you in the opening. there are so few black cards that are actually good, and very VERY little synergy between the cards (unless blessed by RNG). and maybe worst of all, the amount of content doesn't justify the price... I have never refunded in my life but there's a first time for everything I guess
- JKL 9 · v1.1.24-google
It's taking a while for this game to be updated, isn't it? I can count at least two recent updates on Steam, but they are not here yet. Will this version be eventually abandoned or just updated less often? Thanks, dev.
- Pablo R. · v1.1.24-google
I wish it could be played in a vertical position.
- J B · v1.1.24-google
what a great game. I love it. very well balanced and keeps you coming back for more. 1 star less because there's no save feature which is crucial on mobile so if I play, it has to be a complete game or else I lose all my progress. that is absolutely crucial for any mobile game edit: downgraded to 2 stars because I got a call and lost my progress at round 9
- Moe Saad · v1.1.24-google
When the app is not in the foreground—whether because the phone locks or you switch to another application—all progress from the current run is lost.
- Jose Machado · v1.1.24-google
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