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Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

PUNKCAKE Delicieux

Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.

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About This Game

Chess, but all your army has gone over to the white side, leaving you with nothing but your royal shotgun and your wounded pride. Carried by your dark folly, you decide it's time to teach those white pieces to fear the Shotgun King.

Every turn, you may either move your king or shoot at enemy pieces, after what you'll need to move again to reload your shotgun. Avoid checkmate and kill the enemy king to complete the floor. After each floor, you may choose between two random combinations of one upgrade for you and one upgrade for the other side. Choose wisely and keep on winning floors and you just may get your kingdom back.

The game features many unlockable cards, 20 ranks of difficulty, over 100 achievements to complete, an endless mode, an arcade-style chase mode, a new charnier mode where you go raiding the kingdom, mod support, and free content updates.

Runs may take ~20 minutes to complete.
Play with mouse and keyboard, or with a game controller.
Plays great on the Steam Deck!

Community Activity

  1. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes

    Quickpatch v1.623b

    Hi royals! This is another quickpatch because I wanted to use the newest version of our engine which should be more stable on finicky systems. But I also took the opportunity to…

  2. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes
  3. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes

    Quickpatch v1.622b

    Hi Royals! I hope you're having a nice Summer Sale. All our games are 40% off, just so you know. Anyway, that's not why I'm here. We just updated the game with another…

  4. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes

    Patch Notes for v1.622: Bugfixes

    Hello Royals! It's been a little while since the last patch, and only a few minor bugs were reported in that time, so we figured we'd fix those and hopefully be done with this…

  5. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam announcement

    Enter the Final Checkmate

    Hi Royals! Just a quick shout out for a new game coming out today: Enter the Chronosphere! Very much like Shotgun King, it's a turn-based action game, and very much like Shotgun…

  6. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes

    Patch Notes for v1.621: Even more bugfixes

    Hi Royals, It's very important to us that when you get your butt handed to you by the game, you cannot put the blame on bugs. This new stability patch goes one more step towards…

  7. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes

    Patch notes for v1.620: More bugfixes

    Hello Royals, Here's another patch just in time for your regal weekend! This one fixes almost all the issues that were reported to us. We're just left with one tiny issue with…

  8. Shotgun King: The Final CheckmateSteam patch notes

    Patch Notes for v1.619: Bugfixes

    Hi Royals, Thank you so much for all the love on the Bad Company update! Somehow the game got its highest number of simultaneous players during the weekend, 4 years after its…

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