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FPS Chess

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

Steam

ActionCasualStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer

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.

271
playing now
84%
positive of 44k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
62/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

271 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 271 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 4% of 10,710 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

281982026-08-06 21:00 — 275 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 145 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 165 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 236 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 122 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 166 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 275 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 144 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 210 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 260 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 125 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 154 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 255 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 99 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 147 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 231 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 98 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 156 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 281 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 105 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 118 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 185 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 201 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 131 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 206 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 192 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 109 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 190 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 271 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Twitch viewers

2202026-08-26 19:15 — 15 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 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

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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