# Chess Royale — user reviews > 777 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess Royale by SayGames LTD, rated 4.50/5 from 19,911 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-royale/id1434658250/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-royale/id1434658250.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 15,233 · 4★ 2,308 · 3★ 1,084 · 2★ 396 · 1★ 890 ## What do users think of Chess Royale? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 🚀 Seamless matchmaking - 💡 Helpful chess lessons and puzzles - 🤩 Great for learning and improving chess skills **Cons** - 🤬 Excessive and disruptive advertisements - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 🕰️ Long wait times between games due to ads - 🤖 Suspicion of playing against bots instead of real players **Commonly reported bugs** - Incorrect puzzle solutions being marked as wrong - Game losses due to connection issues or app freezes - Inconsistent trophy/ranking system - Inability to report cheating or suspicious behavior **Most requested features** - Ability to play longer timed games - Option to disable ads for a one-time fee - More advanced chess analysis and training features - Improved matchmaking to pair players of similar skill levels ## Newest reviews (15 of 777) ### 2/5 — Novice verses Experience *2026-08-02, version 0.63.11* I’m a novice and enjoy competing against other novices. When someone can beat you in two moves, they shouldn’t be playing against a novice. Just their way to boost their ego?? Also, some novices just give up too soon! You may still lose the battle, but at least give it a good try.🤷‍♀️ ### 2/5 — Not good *2026-07-26, version 0.63.11* I downloaded it and I got people I felt like didn’t even know how to play chess so I played the hardest bot on there and I won first try. I am kinda good like on chess.com (I highly recommend chess.com for a chess app) I am rated around 1200 but still if I don’t even feel a little challenged by the best bot its just boring for me. Plus there is an add every five minutes so you are adding adds to a bad chess app. ### 3/5 — . *2026-07-23, version 0.63.11* Adds every time you play in training didn’t teach me anything new ### 3/5 — Review *2026-07-18, version 0.63.11* Should allow chat to other players. Actually have Elo count. People with 13000+ games shouldn’t be able to play in novice brackets ### 4/5 — Good *2026-06-24, version 0.63.11* Chess, good ### 2/5 — U *2026-06-10, version 0.63.9* Too much ads ### 3/5 — Adds *2026-06-02, version 0.63.9* Promotion adds to much of irritating ### 2/5 — Paying for more Ads; Not Navigable *2026-06-01, version 0.63.9* No obvious way to get to a main menu so that I can change what I want to do (play a friend, play a bot, do puzzles). Also, I paid the $5 to be rid of ads only to get everything buried on internal ads (spin the wheel for extra coins, play in this event). Like I just want to get from point a to point b without be slammed for more ways to get more money from me. ### 2/5 — ENDLESS ADS *2026-05-27, version 0.63.9* The amount of ads in this game is ridiculous. There’s an option for hints, but you have to watch an ad to get them. However, if you click the ‘X’ for no hints and to play it will play an ad anyway!! And if you don’t want ads, you have to pay. It’s genuinely pathetic. Games are not fun anymore as it’s now all about gaining money from sponsors. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!! ### 1/5 — Emoticons *2026-05-19* Leider muss ich dieser App eine negative Bewertung geben. Ich habe den Support bereits per E-Mail kontaktiert, weil die Emoticons in der App nicht funktionieren. Bis heute habe ich jedoch keine Antwort erhalten. Ich habe wirklich alles ausprobiert - Neuinstallation, Cache löschen, verschiedene Netzwerke - aber das Problem besteht weiterhin. Einige Spieler können die Emoticons verwenden, bei mir erscheinen sie jedoch überhaupt nicht, ohne ersichtlichen Grund. Solange ich keine Rückmeldung vom Support erhalte und mir nicht erklärt wird, warum diese Funktion bei mir nicht funktioniert, kann ich der App leider keine positive Bewertung geben. Sobald das Problem behoben ist oder ich eine klare Erklärung bekomme, werde ich meine Bewertung selbstverständlich aktualisieren und wieder positiv bewerten. ### 1/5 — Worst App serious security & privacy concerns *2026-05-18* This is one of the worst apps I’ve used. It opens ads and redirects to external URLs without any user consent, which is a major security and privacy risk. An app should never force users into unknown links or third-party pages without permission. This behavior feels unsafe and potentially harmful. I strongly advise others to avoid this app until these issues are fixed. Developers need to respect user consent and follow basic security standards. ### 1/5 — pub *2026-05-14, version 0.63.9* publié le ### 1/5 — Advertisement Machine *2026-05-08, version 0.63.9* You can play a little game within advertisement. ### 1/5 — Too much adds *2026-05-07, version 0.63.9* Too much adds ### 1/5 — Шляпа игра *2026-05-01* Шляпа! удаляю ! играть не дают одна реклама! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — calm down on the ads *2026-08-17, version 0.63.11* I load up the game and i get hit with and ad then i press the leave button to return to the main menu and get hit with another ad, once that ad is over there is about 15 pop ups before i can play, all within about 2 minutes of opening the app, then they have the audacity to ask for 4.99 for no ads ### 1/5 — As bets estragaram *2026-08-08* A cada vez aparecem 3 ou 4 casas de apostas fazendo comercial fraudulento. Você acessa as redes sociais depois tá lá 10/20 comerciais das mesmas casas. Câncer do Brasil são as bets. Coisa do satanás **Developer response:** Hello! Advertising is an integral part of our game, which allows us to improve the application and stay free to play. We will take your feedback into consideration. Thank you! ### 1/5 — Worst game *2026-07-20, version 0.63.11* Worst chess game I ever played hands down Just another hub for advertisements disguised as a game ### 1/5 — Please *2026-07-07, version 0.63.11* I already paid for no ads. When I login I don’t want to do a tutorial every time, click popups or spin the temu wheel. Make the suffering stop. I click like 5 ads before I can play anything ### 1/5 — Ad fest *2026-07-04, version 0.63.11* It’s just a fn Ad fest with a little bit of game attached to it ### 1/5 — Please reduce the ads, we are playing chess, not to watch ads, you can't play chess at all, ads ever *2026-07-02, version 0.63.11* Please reduce the ads, we are playing chess, not to watch ads, you can't play chess at all, ads every second ### 1/5 — Subpar app *2026-06-20, version 0.63.11* Worthless app unless you want to waste unnecessary amounts of time navigating through a labyrinth of ads and non-matches just to play a real match. ### 1/5 — Way too many ads *2026-05-25, version 0.63.9* There are way too many ads for this chess game to be how basic it is ### 1/5 — Ads Ads Ads *2026-05-25, version 0.63.9* I downloaded this so that I could play chess… which is the whole premise of this game supposedly. But any button you press, an add comes up. Any time you navigate the menu or click off something… another Ad… hence why the 1 star and uninstall ### 1/5 — Advert *2026-05-24, version 0.63.9* The game worked really well. However, I was having to play the advert whiteout survival demo game more than I was getting to play chess. The x to close the advert often never appeared and so I’d have to close the app and then play the advert again. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I love chess *2026-08-18, version 0.63.11* Chess is a great game. ### 5/5 — El major *2026-08-03, version 0.63.11* Esta chirp ### 5/5 — Review *2026-07-07, version 0.63.11* It was great and really fun and yeah it just taught me some stuff about chess and I got great at a checkmated my brother and yeah ### 5/5 — Beating bot level 10 *2026-07-06, version 0.63.11* It is my first time playing and I beat a bot level 10 ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-04-30, version 0.63.8* Great App, just wish I could get rid of the pregame ads. No option to do so that I know if. ### 5/5 — Chess *2026-04-24, version 0.63.2* Good games ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-04-24, version 0.63.2* I wish the people where real but it’s good ### 5/5 — Ajedrez royale lo mejor de ajedrez *2026-04-18, version 0.63.2* Es muy bueno te deja hacer todas las cosas que se pueden hacer en el ajedrez, descárgalo ahora. ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-04-14, version 0.63.2* Nice ### 5/5 — Walid madrd *2026-04-08, version 0.63.2* 5 --- *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 2026-09-06.*