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Chess for idiots

Polish Hacker · 2024-02-01

Steam

CasualIndieStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 01, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The first intellectually non-discriminatory chess variant. Instead of thinking, just move your pieces in one of the many absurd ways!

93%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 109 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (372 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 27,263 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
36436420242026Week of 2024-02-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

47
achievements tracked
92%
earned "TUSK PLAYS ON ARROWS"
14.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsCaptions availableStatsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-02-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8631%47

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

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

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