Checkmate Rush
Checkmate Rush - Steam Analytics & Details
Checkmate Rush maintains a green-rated player base.
Checkmate Rush player count and price summary
- Current players
- 0
- All-time peak
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- 24-hour player change
- 0%
- Current US price
- $4.99
Player count observed . Values marked unavailable are not estimated.
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Buy Verdict
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Player Health
Stable player base with low churn risk.
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System Requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Dual-core CPU, 2.0 GHz (2015 or newer)
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000 or better)
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur) or newer
- Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel (2015 or newer)
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated graphics
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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About This Game
Chess is the arena. You are one pawn against the swarm. Capture to rank up pawn to queen, draft perks, bank power-ups, and survive an ever-faster clock — then checkmate the King at the Nightmare Gate to enter the endless Nightmare. A turn-based arcade roguelite of pure chess.
Detailed Description
ONE PAWN. INFINITE ENEMIES. THE CLOCK ONLY GETS FASTER.
Checkmate Rush is a turn-based arcade roguelite built from real chess moves. Every enemy moves like the piece it is. So do you — and you start as a single pawn.
RANK UP OR RESET — Captures score chess points. Score enough and you evolve: pawn → knight → bishop → rook → queen. Get captured and you fall a rank instead of dying — but a pawn who is taken is checkmated for good.
DRAFT YOUR BUILD — Fill the XP bar to draft from 20 perks across five rarities: stack cooldown, i-frames, blast radius, mines, phoenix revivals, time-weaving free moves, even conscripting fallen enemies to your side.
FIGHT THE COURT — Survive ten escalating stages and the board seals into a throne room: THE NIGHTMARE GATE. The King hides behind his court, dodges your strikes by castling, and answers with royal decrees. Cut his guard down by hand and corner him — one clean capture wins the run… and opens the endless NIGHTMARE, where the real score chase begins.
SIX COMMANDERS — Unlock run-changing starts: the gold-hungry Tycoon, the explosive La Bomba, the glass-cannon Berserker and more.
EARN YOUR ARMORY — 25 achievements. Piece skins, capture-shatter palettes, king trails. Beta players earn exclusive founder cosmetics that will never return.
Turn-based — think fast, but think
One run: 15–30 minutes. "One more run": guaranteed
No meta power creep: every unlock is cosmetic or a sidegrade, never a stat you must grind
Pixel chess pieces by DANI MACCARI — used with attribution under the pack license.