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Battle Chess: Game of Kings™ cover art

Battle Chess: Game of Kings™

Olde Sküül · Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2015-12-11

Steam

CasualStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 11, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board.

2
playing now
52%
positive of 377 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another. It was developed and released by Interplay Entertainment for the Amiga in 1988 and ported to many other systems, including the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, Amiga CDTV, Apple IIGS, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, FM Towns, Nintendo Entertainment System, MacOS, PC-98, X68000, and Microsoft Windows. In 1991, Battle Chess Enhanced was released by Interplay for IBM PC compatibles and Macintosh with improved VGA graphics and a symphonic musical score played from the CD-ROM.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 9,564 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.4k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 377 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2014-03-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$9.992015-01-012026-08-222015-01-01 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $14.992016-04-25 — best price $14.992016-11-14 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $14.992017-03-20 — best price $20.992017-06-22 — best price $20.992017-11-22 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $14.992018-02-26 — best price $14.992018-05-17 — best price $10.192018-08-02 — best price $14.992018-10-30 — best price $10.192018-11-21 — best price $10.192019-01-14 — best price $20.992019-03-25 — best price $20.992019-06-26 — best price $14.992019-08-01 — best price $14.992019-11-04 — best price $20.992019-12-19 — best price $14.992020-02-03 — best price $20.992020-06-25 — best price $10.192020-12-22 — best price $10.192021-06-24 — best price $20.992021-11-24 — best price $20.992022-06-23 — best price $23.992022-12-22 — best price $20.992023-11-21 — best price $23.992024-03-14 — best price $23.992024-11-27 — best price $23.992025-03-13 — best price $23.992025-09-29 — best price $23.992026-03-19 — best price $20.992026-08-20 — best price $23.992026-08-22 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

135372026-05-31 — 108 pageviews2026-06-03 — 92 pageviews2026-06-06 — 97 pageviews2026-06-09 — 80 pageviews2026-06-12 — 98 pageviews2026-06-15 — 90 pageviews2026-06-18 — 74 pageviews2026-06-21 — 70 pageviews2026-06-24 — 103 pageviews2026-06-27 — 76 pageviews2026-06-30 — 69 pageviews2026-07-03 — 73 pageviews2026-07-06 — 109 pageviews2026-07-09 — 118 pageviews2026-07-12 — 74 pageviews2026-07-15 — 100 pageviews2026-07-18 — 119 pageviews2026-07-21 — 97 pageviews2026-07-24 — 96 pageviews2026-07-27 — 100 pageviews2026-07-30 — 95 pageviews2026-08-02 — 88 pageviews2026-08-05 — 85 pageviews2026-08-08 — 58 pageviews2026-08-11 — 75 pageviews2026-08-14 — 69 pageviews2026-08-17 — 83 pageviews2026-08-20 — 122 pageviews2026-08-23 — 69 pageviews2026-08-26 — 71 pageviews2026-08-28 — 88 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

ChessCasualStrategyTabletopBoard GameMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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