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FPS Chess

Meta Fork · DigiPen Institute of Technology · 2022-07-16

Steam

ActionCasualStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 16, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent's pieces until you've beaten their king and won the game.

FPS Chess is an Action, Casual, Strategy, Free To Play game released in 2022, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners, priced at free-to-play, and a review sentiment of Very Positive (84% of 44182 reviews).

64
playing now
84%
positive of 44k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

64 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

FPS Chess trailer thumbnail

FPS Chess Trailer

≈379,400 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 64 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4,688 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~586/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.2k3.2k20222026Week of 2022-07-01: 1,578 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 361 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,562 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 265 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,239 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 278 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,180 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3,213 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 302 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,382 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 314 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,691 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 444 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2,013 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 443 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,171 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 260 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 998 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 222 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 820 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 200 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 857 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 856 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 193 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 796 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 187 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 743 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 763 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 652 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 135 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 733 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 756 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 163 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 618 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 695 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 606 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 141 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 594 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 733 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 843 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 175 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 651 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 144 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 523 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 551 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 115 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 583 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 635 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 712 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 527 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 417 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 459 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 461 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 403 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 448 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 561 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 112 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 443 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 495 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 546 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 542 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 59 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

345642026-09-15 12:00 — 99 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 170 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 142 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 206 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 337 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 153 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 93 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 222 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 217 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 137 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 186 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 156 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 91 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 196 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 232 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 108 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 132 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 128 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 107 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 182 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 292 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 117 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 64 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
920168Jul 2022Aug 2026Jul 2022 — avg 299 · peak 935Sep 2022 — avg 352 · peak 969Nov 2022 — avg 338 · peak 866Jan 2023 — avg 664 · peak 2,875Mar 2023 — avg 524 · peak 1,396May 2023 — avg 359 · peak 720Jul 2023 — avg 343 · peak 702Sep 2023 — avg 296 · peak 641Nov 2023 — avg 256 · peak 525Jan 2024 — avg 288 · peak 596Mar 2024 — avg 268 · peak 593May 2024 — avg 226 · peak 539Jul 2024 — avg 286 · peak 495Sep 2024 — avg 231 · peak 513Nov 2024 — avg 227 · peak 501Jan 2025 — avg 237 · peak 516Mar 2025 — avg 217 · peak 486May 2025 — avg 192 · peak 430Jul 2025 — avg 176 · peak 312Sep 2025 — avg 170 · peak 360Nov 2025 — avg 188 · peak 406Jan 2026 — avg 218 · peak 470Mar 2026 — avg 184 · peak 446May 2026 — avg 207 · peak 423Jul 2026 — avg 196 · peak 361Aug 2026 — avg 176 · peak 330
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Twitch viewers

2102026-10-09 21:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-09 23:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-10 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-06-24 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFPSPvPFunnyActionSportsShooterStrategyTabletopBoard Game

Census log

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

Recent updates

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