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Chess Survivors cover art

Chess Survivors

Aarimous · 2023-08-31

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 31, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies. Combine abilities, upgrades, and relics to create game-breaking builds. Think fast, die, learn, repeat!

85%
positive of 162 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 13,437 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 162 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
363620222026Week of 2022-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$1.492022-11-102026-07-272022-11-10 — best price $2.692022-12-22 — best price $2.542023-03-16 — best price $2.392023-05-01 — best price $2.242023-06-13 — best price $2.242023-06-29 — best price $2.002023-08-31 — best price $4.992023-10-07 — best price $4.992023-11-20 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-01-29 — best price $4.992024-03-06 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-04-15 — best price $4.992024-05-27 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-08-09 — best price $4.992024-09-24 — best price $4.992024-11-20 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-01-21 — best price $4.992025-02-27 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-04-11 — best price $4.992025-05-19 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-07-28 — best price $4.992025-09-05 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-10-10 — best price $2.492025-11-27 — best price $2.492025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-03-30 — best price $2.492026-06-08 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-20 — best price $2.492026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
79.6%
earned "Fool's Mate"
11.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DRPGChessActionStrategyTop-DownAction RPGRogue-likeRogue-liteBullet Hell

Census log

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

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