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Four Kings One War

StaplesVR · 2021-07-25

Steam

Strategy

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

Releases: Jul 25, 2021 (Mac), Jul 25, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Four Kings One War is a 1 or 2 player strategy game inspired by chess. Each player controls two armies as though they were one and get's two moves per turn. This opens up guerrilla style tactics and hidden attacks. This is strategy for the modern mind, outside the 64th square.

Four Kings One War is a Strategy game released in 2021, which is free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 194 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
54%
positive of 194 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (63 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 14,170 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520192026Week of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek 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: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
140Jun 2019Apr 2023Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2020 — avg 6 · peak 57Jun 2020 — avg 14 · peak 50Jul 2020 — avg 5 · peak 34Aug 2020 — avg 10 · peak 62Sep 2020 — avg 6 · peak 62Oct 2020 — avg 9 · peak 73Nov 2020 — avg 4 · peak 10Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 24Jan 2021 — avg 2 · peak 23Feb 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2021 — avg 14 · peak 46May 2021 — avg 6 · peak 50Jun 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Aug 2021 — avg 5 · peak 22Apr 2023 — avg 1 · peak 3

▼ −4 avg players (−83.4%) vs prior month — Apr 2023

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$15.99$0.002019-05-312020-06-102019-05-31 — best price $15.992019-07-01 — best price $7.992019-07-10 — best price $15.992019-07-16 — best price $7.992019-07-30 — best price $15.992019-08-16 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $6.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-06-10 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-06-11 (Steam store data)

Player tags

VRChessIndieCasualSportsStrategyBoard GameSimulationFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

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

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