Shotgun King vs Chess Peace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shotgun King
Experience a unique twist on chess where you command a king armed with a shotgun. Fight your way through enemy pieces, strategically reload, and upgrade your abilities to reclaim your kingdom. This roguelike chess adventure offers challenging gameplay and extensive replayability.
- Chess with a shotgun mechanic
- Roguelike progression with upgrades
- 15 difficulty ranks
- Unlockable cards
- Over 100 achievements
- Endless and chase modes
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Chess, but all your army has gone over to the white side, leaving you with nothing but your royal shotgun and your wounded pride. Carried by your dark folly, you decide it's time to teach those white pieces to fear the Shotgun King. Every turn, you may either move your king or shoot at enemy pieces, after what you'll need to move again to reload your shotgun. Avoid checkmate and kill the enemy king to complete the floor. After each floor, you may choose between two random combinations of one upgrade for you and one upgrade for the other side. Choose wisely and keep on winning floors and you just may get your kingdom back. Runs may take ~20 minutes to complete. The game features 15 ranks of difficulty, unlockable cards, over 100 achievements to complete, an endless mode, and now a chase mode where you get continually assailed from all sides!
Chess Peace
Engage in a peaceful, ad-free chess puzzle experience offline. No prior chess knowledge is needed to enjoy thousands of daily challenges and five unique puzzle modes. Customize your gameplay and track progress with detailed statistics.
- Offline play with no ads
- Thousands of unique puzzles
- Daily puzzle challenges
- Five distinct puzzle modes
- Extensive customization options
- iCloud sync for progress
- Home & Lock Screen Widgets
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• A peaceful chess puzzle, played offline with no ads or account • No chess knowledge required — a new challenge for grandmasters and beginners alike • Thousands of puzzles plus a free Daily Puzzle every day • Available on iPhone, iPad & Mac, with your progress & settings synced via iCloud With over 26,500 unique puzzles across three difficulties and five different puzzle types, and a new Daily Puzzle every day, you play with just the board and six piece types — King, Queen, Rook (Castle), Bishop, Knight and Pawn — to find each satisfying solution. -- Daily Puzzles -- Build your streak by playing a new Daily Puzzle every day, share with other players via our Wordle-style solve grid, as well as a customised image showing the puzzle alongside the stats of your solve. -- Five Unique Puzzle Modes -- • Classic: One of each piece, one board, no captures. • Multiples: Some pieces are copies of each other. Same rule applies: no captures, only peace. • Two-Colour: White and black pieces share the board. Pieces only threaten the opposing colour. • Islands: Two boards, one puzzle. Only the Knight can jump the gap. • Presets: Some positions are revealed, but the pieces remain unknown. -- Find Your Zen through endless customisation -- Unprecedented personal customisation of the gameplay screen and menus, including subtly animated backgrounds, on/off toggles for nearly every visual element, and three distinct sets of gameplay sounds. Find your own Chess Peace in every puzzle, with customisation synced across devices. Also choose from many app-wide colour themes, board styles, and over 30 alternate app icons. -- Great chess learning tool, with no experience required -- If you’re not a chess player, don’t worry — Chess Peace teaches you everything you need to know, with a quick refresher on hand whenever you need it, as well as an optional possible moves system that shows every move possible by any piece on the board. -- Complete play history & in-depth statistics -- Replay your every solve move-by-move, and track your progress with granular statistics. Not your thing? Hide them using Zen and never seem them again. -- No data connection or account -- Everything is stored inside the app, with no connection required and no data collected. Your progress is synced via iCloud, available only to you. -- Home & Lock Screen Widgets -- Add some Chess Peace to your home and lock screens and jump straight into your next puzzle, or keep up your Daily Puzzle streak. -- Accessibility -- As well as supporting iOS Accessibility options, several additional accessibility features make Chess Peace as inclusive as possible, including colourblind mode, high contrast, bold icons, letters instead of piece icons, large text, reduced motion, and adaptable controls that can be brought to the top or bottom of the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chess Peace at Free against Shotgun King's $6.99. Chess Peace also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 65%). Shotgun King's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Chess Peace is free to download; Shotgun King costs $6.99 up front. Chess Peace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Shotgun King asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Shotgun King against 4.9 for Chess Peace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shotgun King has 771 ratings behind it against 142, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Shotgun King's written reviews are positive against 89% of Chess Peace's.
Shotgun King ships an update every 5 days, Chess Peace fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shotgun King | Chess Peace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (771 ratings) | 4.9 (142 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews | 89.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 771 — better | 142 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #51 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 468 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plug In Digital | Sam Shepherd |
Customer experience
Shotgun King
Chess Peace
In-app purchases
Shotgun King
No in-app purchases
Chess Peace
- Premium Unlock$8.99
- Premium Unlock$11.99









