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Gigachess cover art

Gigachess

Drixxel Soft · 2015-12-15

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 15, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!

83%
positive of 95 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 28,412 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 95 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2019-12-19) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$0.792015-12-152026-07-092015-12-15 — best price $3.392016-01-21 — best price $2.952016-02-22 — best price $2.472016-04-25 — best price $1.992016-06-18 — best price $1.992016-07-27 — best price $3.992016-09-14 — best price $0.992016-11-01 — best price $3.992016-12-21 — best price $1.992017-02-28 — best price $1.592017-04-10 — best price $3.992017-08-22 — best price $1.352017-11-28 — best price $3.992018-04-13 — best price $0.992018-06-22 — best price $0.992018-09-27 — best price $1.352018-11-21 — best price $1.352019-02-11 — best price $3.992019-07-18 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $3.992020-01-23 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $3.992020-10-29 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $3.992021-10-21 — best price $1.352021-12-01 — best price $3.992022-06-23 — best price $2.392023-01-05 — best price $3.992023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-05-20 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $3.992026-01-27 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorFamily Sharing2 DLC

2 supported languages: English, French

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2017-03-07, latest 2019-08-02 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DChessIndieArcadeCasualPuzzleStrategyTabletopDifficultBoard Game

Census log

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

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