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Chessplosion cover art

Chessplosion

C.T. Matthews · 2021-09-21

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 21, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents. Defeat enemies and bosses in Adventure Mode and the roguelike-inspired Dungeon Mode, break targets with limited bombs in Puzzle Mode, or fight friends and AI in Battle Mode.

96%
positive of 154 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (42 reviews).
  • · Top 53% of 14,218 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–6.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 154 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2022-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
424220212026Week of 2021-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$5.992021-09-212026-07-092021-09-21 — best price $11.992021-11-12 — best price $11.992021-12-01 — best price $11.992022-01-05 — best price $11.992022-02-03 — best price $11.992022-03-07 — best price $11.992022-05-09 — best price $11.992022-07-07 — best price $11.992022-10-11 — best price $11.992022-11-29 — best price $11.992023-01-05 — best price $11.992023-02-19 — best price $11.992023-03-23 — best price $11.992023-05-27 — best price $11.992023-07-13 — best price $11.992023-09-04 — best price $11.992023-10-12 — best price $11.992023-11-28 — best price $11.992024-01-04 — best price $11.992024-02-22 — best price $11.992024-03-21 — best price $11.992024-05-20 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $11.992024-07-22 — best price $11.992024-10-12 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $11.992024-12-16 — best price $11.992025-01-02 — best price $11.992025-02-17 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $11.992025-10-11 — best price $11.992025-11-17 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-02-23 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
62.2%
earned "Castling"
6.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera Comfort1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, German, French, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DChessRetroActionArcadePuzzleColorfulTabletopTop-DownRogue-like

Census log

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

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