# Chess Crusade — user reviews > 13 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess Crusade by Toast - Apps and Software LLC, rated 4.40/5 from 86 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-crusade/id6446124494/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-crusade/id6446124494.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 68 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 8 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Great ideas, poor execution *2025-02-17* Overall love the concept but this games buggy, and art style is hard to play with. Overall poor experience. ### 1/5 — This stupid racist game *2024-05-10* This game is so stupid and the admin just doesn’t not like black people and they just posted some hate speech in their bans **Developer response:** False and inappropriate information. ### 1/5 — Lying about multiplayer *2023-10-09* There is no multiplayer here. Despite being able to choose between a bot and a player, you will ALWAYS be against a bot which is a joke to beat. Edit: Thanks you devs for confirming in your response that you are lying about multiplayer. I have not seen ONE human player. You are full of it. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. It is indeed multiplayer-first. Every game attempts to match you with a player, but will defer to a bot if none are found. You can also directly challenge any player to a game when you are looking for a match! ### 1/5 — Lying about multiplayer *2023-10-06* There is no multiplayer here. Despite being able to choose between a bot and a player, you will ALWAYS be against a bot which is a joke to beat. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. It is indeed multiplayer-first. Every game attempts to match you with a player, but will defer to a bot if none are found. You can also directly challenge any player to a game when you are looking for a match! ### 3/5 — When playing=lots of fun,but most of the time waiting *2025-03-07* I know a lot of people complained about playing against a bot but I just want to play. It takes soooo long. Just give me the option to play a bot. Progressively get better or don’t. Please I just want to play ### 3/5 — Not good, not bad *2023-09-28* This is not a bad game by any means, it’s just not different enough from chess and some of its variants. This needs more gimmicks and also it seems like you gain gems super slowly, it’s actually insane. ### 4/5 — Great idea. Needs some work. *2023-10-05* Very interesting idea. Can’t say I don’t like it. It’s actually really fun. But there are a few issues. Besides a few bugs the game needs some balance tweaks. Units either cost too little or you earn too much each turn. It’s really difficult to checkmate an opponent who can keep spamming defenders. Also, a 6x6 board is way too small for this game. It’s incredibly easy to end up with useless pieces because there just isn’t enough space to move them around. And finally the contrast between the dark and light squares is too low. It’s difficult at best to see the difference. All in all a fun game and I hope it continues to improve. ### 5/5 — Cool *2023-11-08* Very cool ### 5/5 — Loving the game so far! *2023-10-09* As a chess player, this game provides fresh tactics, strategies and logic to the classic game. ### 5/5 — Such a great take on a favorite! *2023-10-02* I love this game and it’s unique take on a long-time favorite of mine. Plus, it helps take a game that can take hours and condense it down into 5 minutes or less, giving you the ability to play a quick game even if you don’t have hours to sit down at a table. It’s a creative twist on a long-standing tradition while still managing to be just as original, and I love that about it the most! When you play the game, it doesn’t just feel like a rip off of chess, it truly feels fresh and new. I highly recommend playing this game! ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nice spin on the classic game *2023-09-30* This game is really cool. I like how all the chess rules are still in effect, but it’s mixed with a deck building system kind of like Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. It’s a fun time ### 5/5 — Great app, great community *2023-09-29* Good job Toast! ### 5/5 — Exciting and refreshing take on a classic game *2023-09-28* This game takes base game of chess and species it up. Every time you play it’s new and different. There are new game pieces that add another layer of strategy. I recommend downloading it and giving it a go. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-24.*