# Everybody Shogi — user reviews > 47 indexed App Store user reviews of Everybody Shogi by AltPlus Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 320 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/everybody-shogi/id6737407490/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/everybody-shogi/id6737407490.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 254 · 4★ 27 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Everybody Shogi? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Fun and simple story - 🤓 Interesting way to learn the game - 💡 Helps build strategic thinking for beginners **Cons** - 🤯 Difficult and infuriating events/missions - 🕰️ Slow animations and unskippable - 🤔 Inconsistent instructions and terminology **Commonly reported bugs** - Some missions/events feel impossible to complete - Unclear criteria for 3-star ratings **Most requested features** - English mode with piece names instead of Kanji - Ability to review captured piece movements - Option for 2-player on the same device ## Newest reviews (12 of 47) ### 3/5 — イベントが… *2026-02-08* アップデート後、イベントボタンをタップするとローディングが終わらず操作できなくなります。修正を希望！ ### 3/5 — English mode please *2025-09-14, version 1.0.2* This is a polished game with a lot of potential, and I’d like to get into it more. Two things holding it back are lots of unskippable animations that slow that game down a lot, and no good way to tell what the captured pieces are. I guess I could memorize the Kanji characters for each piece, but it would be a LOT more accessible if there was an option to replace those with “P”, “B”, “R”, etc. instead. Right now I’m just picking captured pieces blindly and then trying to make the best of it once they are on the game board. ### 2/5 — Level 63 of hard mode is impossible to get 3 stars *2025-09-02, version 1.0.2* it requires to finish level in only 7 moves. but the king‘s move is limited and you can‘t defeat any piece in the first 5 moves ### 4/5 — Overall pretty great *2025-08-29, version 1.0.2* It’s a pretty game with interesting mechanics and some pretty tough puzzles. The one thing that I really don’t like is the “advice” tool within those puzzles is based on the best overall move, but doesn’t help solve most of the puzzle criteria. The recent update to improve game pace is very beneficial, playing on base speed was very frustrating when you were stuck on a puzzle and the faster options are great. ### 2/5 — Is there shogi in here somewhere? *2025-08-26, version 1.0.1* I love Shogi, and when this popped up, I thought it was going to be a pretty way to play it… but instead it’s a long slog of puzzles so simple that I was falling asleep playing through them (in the hopes that there are some interesting ones eventually). As others have said, the animations need to be sped up, or even allow us to turn them off entirely, and it might be worth seeing how difficult it gets down the road… but in the mean time, I’ll just pass. ### 3/5 — Animation time ruined the game for me. *2025-08-25, version 1.0.1* I’d like this game a lot more if I could speed up animation time. I don’t need the computer to “think” and I don’t need to “confirm” that the opponents move was skipped. It’s a beautiful game but please let me play faster. ### 4/5 — 新しい詰め将棋パズル *2025-08-21* 楽しいです。序盤ステージ18⭐︎３つ取れません。5手クリアがどうしても６手かかります。誰か教えてください ### 5/5 — 新しい将棋 *2025-08-18* 子供と一緒に遊べて毎日ちょっとずつ進めて楽しんでます！ ### 4/5 — Impossible *2025-08-17* The third level in the strong event is impossible to do but I still like Everybody Shogi ### 4/5 — Y did u make the event hard??? *2025-08-16, version 1.0.1* I love that game ,like chess but in Japan But your strong dog event was impossible and I’m on 3! Chang that level or I Chang my review to a 2 ### 5/5 — 子供が楽しんでます *2025-08-15* 可愛いビジュアルで子供がやってみたいと言うので将棋を教えた事がなかったで、良い機会と思い遊ばせてみましたが、教える必要なく楽しんでます😆進むとより将棋感が出てきますが、パズル感もあって良いバランスですね。継続して楽しませてもらいます ### 5/5 — 結構本格的 *2025-08-15* お子様向けの詰将棋ゲームかと思いきや、必ずしも相手玉を詰ませるものに限らず何ターン耐えるとか敵を全滅させるとかかなりパズル寄りの内容になっている。ステージが進むと地形ギミックが増えてもはやただの将棋ではなくなりますw⭐︎３つとるのにかなり考えないといけないステージも。 将棋覚えたての人はもちろん、それなりに経験していても楽しめるいいアプリです。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 消えた *2026-07-29* せっかく頑張ってストーリー4まで進めたのに、データ消えてまた最初に戻ってしまいました。 悲しすぎます。 ### 1/5 — Events stuck on loading *2026-02-08, version 1.3.0* Anytime I click events it gets stuck on loading screen ### 1/5 — Love this game, but support never responds! *2026-02-04, version 1.3.0* Such a bummer. ### 1/5 — I really like this game. One problem that is a deal breaker *2025-10-13, version 1.1.0* I like this game, my problem is with hard stage 63. I have tried every possible iteration (took multiple hours) and it is not possible to earn the third star by completing in under 7 moves. I am a perfectionist with puzzle games like this. I need to have all puzzles completed perfectly. I have emailed support multiple times to inform them of the issue, but have not heard back. Hoping leaving a bad review will get their attention so I can get my last star…. Fundamentally this issue concerns me because it means I cannot necessarily trust that the benchmark for earning stars is possible, thus I don’t want to keep banging my head against a wall trying to perfect the puzzle, when it isn’t even possible. It makes me want to quit now so I don’t burn the time =[ ### 1/5 — Too slow *2025-09-10, version 1.0.2* Slow animations, even at 2x speed. Poor ui forcing unnecessary waits. Enemy has no pieces? You still have to wait for the “enemy skipped their turn” dialogue to pop up, then click ok, then wait for the animation to disappear before you can continue. The kicker was a level where I had to stall with my king for 5 moves before a trap took out all of the enemies to show me how the trap worked. This game might be great for toddlers, but to me it just feels like they programmed the game to eat as much of your time as possible to juice metrics or payouts. ### 1/5 — Certain puzzle objects unattainable *2025-09-06, version 1.0.2* Need to fix unsolvable objects ### 1/5 — Terrible, but consistent for AA *2025-08-07, version 1.0.0* I always wanted to get better at Shogi and thought this Apple Arcade title might do the trick. It doesn’t; it’s terrible. The first thing you’ll notice is that there are a lot of long animations for everything. Each piece has to animate and move slowly. Did you capture a piece? That has to slowly slide off the screen. Then the computer has to tell you what it thinks of your move with a flashing banner that stays at the top of the screen for a few seconds. Then the computer’s turn starts and all of these same animations happen again. You cannot do anything during these animations. The banners are very inconsistent. You’ll get “Fantastic!” in the first few maps as you make the very easy moves to get the minimum number of moves objective. But then, all of a sudden, you’ll get a “Good” or “Great”. Was that not the correct move? No, it was, it just seems to say things randomly. Ok, so that’s not great, and you’re waiting around a lot, but is that so bad? Well, when the “campaign” of the game is essentially just chess puzzles, with various missions to complete in each one (and one is always a “complete in the minimum number of moves”), you might have to reset often. The animations really start to wear thin after you’ve restarted a map a few times. Worse than that is the general lack of care given to the instructions and to the game itself. It explains promoting pieces early on, by saying to get the piece to the “enemy’s half of territory”. That makes sense. But then it changes these rules in many of the missions, so that the “enemy territory” is sometimes only 1 or 2 spaces (and not half the board). And this is not explained but there is a small red flag with a chinese character on it actually denotes the territory line. The worst thing is they don’t even use the terminology consistently. The “bishop” (as it is most often referred to) is a great piece, but it’s also referred to as a “witch soldier” as well as a chinese character. This makes it really frustrating for those that are not already well-versed with the game. All of your captured pieces (which can be played again) are similarly ONLY marked with chinese characters, and this is the only time the game forces you to try and learn those characters. In every other instance, English words are used to define these pieces (but, unfortunately, not even consistently). In short, this is a terrible way to learn this game or try to get better at it. Since it is Apple Arcade, the odds of anything changing in this app are very small. I won’t be sticking around to watch. ### 1/5 — Can’t even finish the 2nd level of the first event. *2025-08-07, version 1.0.0* You get one bishop on a field with 2 other pieces, you can destroy one of the pieces in 2 moves but after that point the bot will literally run your turns out with no movement mistakes afterwards. ### 2/5 — 無理！ *2025-10-21* イベントの6問目の星3つのクリア条件なんて無理ゲー。 ### 2/5 — Was enjoying it then... *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* I was enjoying this app as a way to learn a new board game. The interface requires the user to slow down and the difficulty level increases very slowly. Really good for people without a lot of experience in strategy. I kept wanting to look up each piece's properties because it is a lot to learn, but did not find a reference page. However, the app stopped working after I played one of the events. Now I can open the app but it takes a long time to load a game, saved or new, and then nothing responds to touch so I cannot play. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — bug *2026-08-04* ステージ142のミッション「歩を倒してクリア」が達成できません。 敵駒は銀2枚しか配置されておらず、歩が存在しないため条件を満たせません。 ご確認をお願いいたします。 ### 5/5 — Naruto/Boruto *2026-03-07, version 1.3.1* I learned about this game from an anime and I love it! ### 5/5 — いや楽しいけども。 *2026-02-14* 0212追記:アップデート頂き解決済。 1月末のアップデート後、イベントステージに遷移しなく(ずっとNow Loading)なったのは私だけだろうか？他の端末でも同じ症状なのだけど、サポートに2回ほど問い合わせたが改善も対応も見られない。残念。 あ、ついでに。 この手のゲームでほぼランダム要素(火山弾とか)は邪魔だと考えます。それなら、ランダム有りの面は｢〇ターン以内｣の条件は無くすべき。ランダムに邪魔されないパターン引くまでリトライ連打するゲームはお互い望まないはず。 ### 5/5 — アップデート以降 *2026-01-29* 1.3.0アプデ以降イベントができなくなってしまいました ### 5/5 — これは面白い！！ *2025-11-01* 動画を見て「面白そう」と思い、apple oneに登録しました 結果、大正解！ まさにカジュアルゲームのお手本、将棋のルールを知らない人でもゲーム内の説明やヒントがとても親切ですんなり入り込める！ 最初はサクサク進むけど、ステージが進むにつれて難易度が上がっていき、「どうすれば⭐︎3取れるかな」と何度も試行錯誤、気付けば時間がどんどん過ぎてゆきますw 是非たくさんの人にプレイしてほしい名作です！！ ### 5/5 — 要修正 *2025-10-24* 先日のアプデ以降、イベントでクリア後に次ステージに進むボタンが反応しないことがある。 ゲーム自体は最高 ### 5/5 — Cool pool *2025-10-15, version 1.1.0* The first time I played it was a lot like chess and I like it more than anything also, I like chess too.😀♟️ ### 5/5 — First Impressions *2025-09-30, version 1.1.0* Great puzzle game! ### 5/5 — New Area *2025-09-21, version 1.1.0* Please Make a 6th Area ### 5/5 — Hard to recognize pieces *2025-09-12, version 1.0.2* Unclear how each piece translates to the standard pieces you know --- *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.*