Gambonanza User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience76.6% of reviews
Neutral11.2% of reviews
Negative experience12.2% of reviews

~ Based on 188 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Gambonanza Safe?

Gambonanza appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Gambonanza is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 2,617 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,617 App Store ratings for Gambonanza.

Is Gambonanza Legit?

Gambonanza appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gambonanza is 75/100.

Based on 75 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Good

It’s was very enjoyable I loved it reminded me of balatro

Horsey

I love my horsey and my horsey love me

Can’t launch game

Game crashes on initial loading screen with a frozen cloud spinning icon on iPhone 15

Best game ever

It’s super fun for long car rides and long plane flights with 0 adds

비추

발라트로 배낀건 알겠는데 굳이 잘 어울리지도 않는 체스에 섞은 이유를 잘 모르겠음 이도저도 아닌느낌

Response from developer

피드백 감사합니다. Gambonanza는 전통적인 체스 게임이라기보다 체스 요소를 결합한 덱빌딩 로그라이트로 설계되었습니다. 핵심은 전략을 계속 조정하며 보스와 다양한 상황에 대응하는 것입니다. 기대하신 경험과 달랐다면 아쉽습니다.

L’app ne fonctionne plus

L’app ne fonctionne plus

Response from developer

Bonjour, nous sommes désolés d’apprendre que l’application ne fonctionne pas correctement. Pourriez-vous nous envoyer quelques détails supplémentaires ? Le jeu plante-t-il au lancement, pendant une partie, ou ne démarre-t-il pas du tout ? Quel modèle d’appareil et quelle version d’iOS utilisez-vous ? Cela nous aidera à analyser le problème : dungeonclawler@ateo.ch

발라트로 보다 많이 하위호환

발라트로는 네시간이고 다섯시간이고 미친듯이 해도 도전욕구가 생기는데 이 게임은 몇번 실패하다가 유령기물 만드는 타일 기물 기믹 이용만 하다보니까 금방 질리네요. 그래도 서너시간정도 재밌게해서 돈값은 한듯

Great Chess-ish Game!!!

I was really keen on buying this game for ages, but was reluctant due to the price. After committing, I can say this is easily one of my favourite games. I love to just play for a few minutes here and there, and for how stressful it can get, it’s calming in its own retro kinda way:)

I’d love to see the ability to tap the piece and then the tile your moving it to as a way to move the piece, instead of physically grabbing and sliding it. Especially as I come from a traditional chess background.

Love the game, love the work. Highly recommend to anyone and everyone!!!
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Easily one of the best indie games of 2026

Its Balatro but chess, what else do i need to say…

It’s Balatro but with chess

Now I can gamble with fake money on a game I’m even worse at than poker!

PEAK

here’s two suggestions. to make the game endless, you should add a custom gambits feature. also please make it so that you can enable both drag and tap to move with pieces. game’s doing good so far, keep it up!

So unique I love it

A amazing project and game

It was at most mid tier the gambits are so generic and you can’t get combos like balatro

Don’t buy this if you loved balatro instead I recommend slay the spire

Great concept, way too buggy

I was looking for an experience similar to Balatro (I have 600 hours on that game, and this seemed like a cool new take on the roguelite idea). However, it’s obvious how poor quality control was before this game was released. So many bugs that lead to you losing runs even if you did everything right - gambits not working properly, enemy being able to capture pieces it’s not supposed to be able to etc. I was enjoying playing this game so much until I experienced these, such a shame.
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Response from developer

Thanks playing Gambonanza. We’re glad you were enjoying it. Gambits failing or enemies making invalid captures should not happen. Please send us details, screenshots, and your device information at gambonanza@ateo.ch so we can investigate these issues. We’re sorry they affected your runs.

Broken Settings

there’s a setting to switch touch controls from “On Drag” to “On Touch”, so you just have to tap pieces and their destinations to play. This option doesn’t work, which sucks because I can’t drag my finger on my phone very well due to a disability. I can’t play this game even though I bought it because of this bug. I will change my review if it’s fixed
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Great game, some ideas however

I love the game, it’s fun and definitely helps you think outside the box. I can see how someone who is into chess can love this game and I as someone who isn’t that into chess does love it too! My biggest issues are the following however, minor but stand out to me.
- No speed multiplier; I think if there was a multiplier it could help with games going quicker especially at work! (Sorry boss)
- Pauses outside audio/plays over outside audio; I like to listen to music or podcasts and play games, it’s kind of a bother when these things get paused due to how the game runs
- optimization; my phone gets very hot when playing this game, never an issue either other games other than cloverpit which I can pass off as graphically more complex, but I don’t know why that is the case with this game.
- the game restarts when out of it for five seconds (exaggeration). I don’t like that if I’m out of the game for a bit too long the app force restarts itself

Other than that, solid game but a 4/5 until these are addressed or fixed!
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Great game

Game is cool but STOP asking me to review the app after every damn run jesus christ. I already paid for the app isn’t it enough?

Response from developer

Thanks for playing Gambonanza and for reporting this issue! Glad you like it. This review behaviour should not normally be possible, and it’s the first time we’ve encountered this bug. Could you please send us more details at gambonanza@ateo.ch? Screenshots, your device model, operating system version, and a brief description of what happened would help us investigate the issue. 🙏

Good game

Wahoo!

ノーマルクリア後レビュー

 最初は取られた駒をロストすることに嫌気がさしてたけど、ゲーム性的には駒は取られる前提で考えるもので補充手段をどうするかってことに気づいてから楽しくなってきました。
 ファントム駒はゴールド化する事で実体化するので、クイーンを増殖させるムーブが盤面的にも金策にもなって強い。後は保護タイルが強く難曲面も保護エリア作って移動させてるだけで、崩壊による自滅待ちでなんとかなります。
 ボス戦はボスによっては動きを制限されるのがストレスで楽しくなかったです。
 よくあるローグライトの永久強化はなくて、あるのはgambitの解放なんですが、種類が増えると望んでるものもきにくくなるのでなんだかなという感じ。
 ノーマルクリアまでは楽しめましたが、俺つえーがしたいタイプなのでさらなる難易度ではプレイする気が起きませんでした。
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Cool

Cool