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Zen Chess: Mate in Four cover art

Zen Chess: Mate in Four

Minimol Games · 2019-04-30

SteamEpic Games Store

CasualStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 30, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 30, 2019 (Mac)

Zen Chess: Mate in Four is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-four problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

66%
positive of 74 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 27,792 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 74 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.39 at Epic Game Store (2025-09-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320192026Week of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.99$0.392019-05-012026-10-082019-05-01 — best price $0.792019-08-12 — best price $0.592019-10-28 — best price $0.592019-11-26 — best price $0.592020-01-06 — best price $0.592020-02-24 — best price $0.692020-06-15 — best price $0.492020-08-24 — best price $0.492020-10-21 — best price $0.592020-11-25 — best price $0.592020-12-22 — best price $0.592021-03-29 — best price $0.492021-05-24 — best price $0.992021-08-02 — best price $0.992021-10-25 — best price $0.992021-11-15 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-03-07 — best price $0.542022-07-10 — best price $0.992022-10-31 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $0.992023-06-19 — best price $0.992023-10-02 — best price $0.492023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-11 — best price $0.492024-06-03 — best price $0.492024-07-29 — best price $0.542024-09-16 — best price $0.992024-11-01 — best price $0.992024-12-12 — best price $0.592025-01-09 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-09-17 — best price $0.542025-11-03 — best price $0.992026-01-08 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.992026-10-08 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

29 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek…

Player tags

ChessLogicCasualPuzzleAbstractColorfulRelaxingStrategyTabletopEducation

Census log

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

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