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Chinese Chess/ Elephant Game: 象棋/ 中国象棋/ 中國象棋 cover art

Chinese Chess/ Elephant Game: 象棋/ 中国象棋/ 中國象棋

Wang Wenxi · 2017-10-20

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Oct 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The most popular Chinese board game.

Chinese Chess/ Elephant Game: 象棋/ 中国象棋/ 中國象棋 is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy and Early Access game released in 2017, priced at $9.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 224 reviews).

0
playing now
75%
positive of 224 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (26 reviews).
  • · Top 24% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.6k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 224 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820172026Week of 2017-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.892017-10-202023-06-282017-10-20 — best price $8.492017-10-27 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $3.392018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $3.392018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-04-04 — best price $1.892018-04-05 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $2.492018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-08-13 — best price $1.892018-08-21 — best price $9.992018-09-20 — best price $1.992018-10-15 — best price $1.892018-10-22 — best price $9.992018-10-30 — best price $1.892018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $1.892018-11-27 — best price $9.992018-12-21 — best price $1.892019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-06-25 — best price $2.492019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-09-30 — best price $1.992019-10-07 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $2.492019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-01-20 — best price $2.492020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $2.492020-07-09 — best price $9.992021-02-08 — best price $2.492021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-06-02 — best price $1.892023-06-28 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
61.2%
earned "Checkmate"
56%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStats

4 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Russian

Player tags

ChessIndieStrategyTabletopSimulationEarly Access

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.