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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.
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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!
Recommended system requirements
minimum*
- 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
recommended*
Not specified
User reviews
dialixx
Not recommended | 26 May 2026
196h played
its core gimmick is entertaining and works fine for rank 1, maybe reasonable up rank 5 or so. otherwise, the rank system does not work with the core of the game with how rigid and random the way you receive cards is, to
Helpful: 5
Tequila Sunset
Not recommended | 09 May 2026
176h played
As someone who has 100%ed this hellscape, I cannot recommend it to anyone in good faith, the achievements are hell, a basic feature was removed and replaced with a cheat code, later on in the game it relies entirely on
Helpful: 4
shadow_of_apollo
Recommended | 19 May 2026
10.6h played
The computer is playing chess but you're not. What I mean becomes fairly obvious at the higher difficulty when you have to actually look at the board and see how the computer is going to try to trap you or how it's
Helpful: 2
epg
Not recommended | 25 May 2026
15.5h played
This game makes me INCREDIBLY MAD, also some of the updates have gutted my enjoyment. I will say, it's a really interesting take on chess. Also, you feel like an actual god whenever you finally beat floor 15 endless.
Helpful: 1
Spudlord
Recommended | 15 May 2026
12.6h played
Its a good game if you get it on sale, but there are a ton of small problems with garbage cards or difficult unlocks that makes the game quite annoying in ways that aren't immediately apparent.
Helpful: 1
rayburn89
Recommended | 13 May 2026
59.1h played
If I had a nickel for every single time I was discover checked by that stupid rook on rank 1 I'd have enough money to buy this entire studio's catalog and the studio itself
Helpful: 0