Really Bad Chess+ User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience55.1% of reviews
Neutral10.2% of reviews
Negative experience34.7% of reviews

~ Based on 98 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Really Bad Chess+ Safe?

Really Bad Chess+ has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Really Bad Chess+ is 68/100.

This assessment is based on 164 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Safety Analysis

57.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
36.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 164 App Store ratings for Really Bad Chess+.

Is Really Bad Chess+ Legit?

Really Bad Chess+ appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Really Bad Chess+ is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

So much cavalry

A fun game in an incredibly frustrating way. One wish, it would be great to see the board after victory or defeat. A second look at a surprise ending would be nice.

The ai is way too lucky

The games usually start out with impossible to defend attacks, the ai doesn’t even go for checkmate strategically, it just wants pieces, and on top of that, the boards are usually very unfair, I’ve started multiple times where a piece that I need is under attack and I defendable in the very first move, not to mention that most of the time, the ai gets undefendable lines that take half your pieces.
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Latest update broke the game

A recent update added some new game modes but completely broke the game. On my iPhone 17 Pro the entire app is now “magnified” such that I can’t see the entire board (the left and right-most columns aren’t on screen!)

It broke the menu UI as well I can’t read the options because they’re all cut off.

I had a 50+ day streak which I lost because of this. Most games when they break something that destroys user progress (streaks, dailies, etc) there’s some sort apology or fix made. I guarantee Apple Arcade won’t bother.

Update: they fixed it today 3/23 but guess what, they fixed the other version of the game (the one not via Apple Arcade) TWO DAYS EARLIER! That’s right, the subscription service version you pay for gets updated slower than the regular version.
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Last update ruined the game

I sent an email, and didn’t get a reply. :(

Zoomed in

they released an update a few days ago that made the whole screen zoomed in too much to see everything love playing this but its broken right now

Recent upgrade issues

Recent upgrades have caused the play forked to be larger than the phone screen, th entire outer edges of the board are off the screen, also the top of the menus are off the top of the screen

Aspect ratio is messed up

After update the app doesn’t fit on the iPhone screen any more - too big. Needs a fix

Update broke the game

Same scaling problem as other commenters. Please fix!

Game does not work correctly any more after update

I really liked the Game and played it Daily for years! After the update, the GUI was wrong (to big scale - right and left part of the board cut away. So I did a backup and tried to reinstall. Reinstall has not solved the problem AND backup cannot be restored (even after several device restarts and tries). That is very frustrating… years of progress lost.
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Completely Unplayable

Completely unplayable since the latest update. Full board no longer fits in iPhone portrait view and there no way to resize it or go to landscape mode. Looks like they did zero real world testing before rolling this update out. PLEASE FIX!!!

Bad update

Latest update wrecked the game.

Did latest update break app?

The app is now oddly zoomed in so you can’t actually play it properly. Happened today.

Recent update is too zoomed in iPhone 17 pro max.

Love the game. Have for years game updated today and I can not see the entire game on my iPhone 17 pro max. It feels like they are forcing me to play with iPad aspect ratio

Solid fun game

A solid little game, taught me a lot about real chess. But the latest update, resolution is out - the board no longer fits the screen

Update bug

I love this game but the newest update makes it impossible to play. The board is too big to be seen and there is no way to change it.

new but buggy

the new version doesn’t fit on the phone screen - only iPad…

Scaling issue on this update

Game is no longer playable as the scaling is wrong with this update, at least on pro max phone. It’s zoomed and can’t see the menus or the whole board.

New update

Its a really good game but the new update seems to have broken the scaling on the iphone 17

New Update Broke It

It used to work just fine on my iPhone 17 Pro, but now it appears zoomed in on the screen leaving me unable to see the whole board.

Kein normales Schach möglich

Leider ist dieses Spiel so unübersichtlich und nicht deutsch verfügbar. Außerdem kann ich kein normales Schach spielen oder es einstellen…