I play chess every day and randomly saw this pop up on pre orders in December 2025 so I screenshotted it so I wouldn’t forget. It came out today and I had to check it out. From the opening menu screen and brilliant old school sound design I knew I found a gem but was curious how a shotgun could fit into an already perfect strategy game like chess. Turns out…It always needed a 12 gauge. It’s got some of the funniest dialogue I’ve seen in a game and I’m weirdly invested in the story. Combat is super satisfying and it’s just a super well made strategy game. If you love chess and you’ve wanted to blow up a horse that’s threatening a checkmate but can’t…now you can. I’m gonna struggle to return to chess having experienced what it’s like to use a BOOM STICK on those pesky traitorous white pieces. FOR THE KING!!!!!!!

The gameplay loop is so entertaining to me, so many little details I’m surprised this game is not more popular.However, I keep encountering a glitch where using right stick to aim while using the white shoes or the search orb causes the game to freeze completely. Works same as pc version otherwise

The game is a fine take on the roguelike genre. Very replayable, interesting choices once you get your head around the gameplay. Losses really feel like it’s your fault and not simple RNG, which is satisfying.There’s a few small UX issues when playing on mobile, like differentiating between moves and attacks when you have long movements available. However, my main issue is the lack of a save file mid-run. If you close the game for any amount of time you will lose all progress and have to start anew. A pretty frustrating feature on mobile (where play sessions are shorter than PC) – would probably give it 5-stars if they fixed that.

Just starting by saying it’s a lot of fun I’ve got it on steam and saw it on phone and had to get it again. I would have given it 5 stars but I can’t Unfortunately, when trying to use the run n gun shoes(can’t remember the name) the game froze on me. Music stopped playing, pieces stopped wiggle I couldn’t move; had to quit the game and on return I lost my run. At this point unless that is fixed I can’t play again. Not exactly sure how the bug happened, but if it happened once I’m sure it’ll happen again so I hope it’s identified soon cause this game is so much fun. Until then 2 stars so this is noticed and addressed before it happens to others.