Shotgun King vs Keepsweeper
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!
Keepsweeper
Engage in strategic kingdom building combined with Minesweeper-style deduction. Uncover tiles, develop your settlement, and explore hidden treasures. Choose from multiple quest paths or compete with friends in multiplayer modes.
- Minesweeper-style tile deduction
- Real-time kingdom building
- Economic simulation
- Multiple quest paths
- Offline play
- Online multiplayer
- Map editor
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It starts with a grid. Then you build a kingdom. Keepsweeper mixes Minesweeper-style deduction with a living, real-time fantasy kingdom. Read the number clues. Send workers to uncover tiles. Turn a small clearing into farms, homes and defenses. Then decide whether you're ready to wake the dragon. A LITTLE KINGDOM. BIG POSSIBILITIES. Build an economy that works together. Windmills support farms. Blacksmiths equip your soldiers. Chapels keep the army fighting. Discover combinations that turn a modest settlement into something wonderfully overpowered. EVERY SQUARE HAS A STORY Hidden gold, treasure chests, goblin lairs, crypts and sleeping dragons wait beneath the grid. Explore forests, cross lakes and settle mountain country. Dig carefully. The numbers are trying to tell you something. CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE Follow four quest paths: Dragon Hunt, Royal Treasury, Reclaim the Realm and Rival Kingdoms. The full game adds two twenty-level campaigns: Into the Badlands, with ruined roads, buried archives and Ancient Gates, and Beyond the Pines, where outlaw strongholds and dragon-summoning wizards hide in the northern forests. Head into the Wilds for a larger expedition, or see how long you can survive endless Siege. A NEW REALM EVERY DAY Explore a shared Daily Realm with special objectives. Record your victories in the Realm Journal and earn Royal Seals for first completions. MAKE THE NEXT RUN YOURS Earn Royal Seals and spend them in Research. Unlock new buildings, upgrades and permanent Passives for future runs. Discover treasures that change the rules: sunbeam-firing towers, floating settlements, unlikely allies and creatures you probably shouldn't have disturbed. FRIENDS, RIVALS AND YOUR OWN WORLDS Play online with two to four players. Fight for the last Keep standing, form teams, face AI kingdoms together or hold the line in Co-op Siege. Share an invitation link and friends join your game for free. Build and play your own scenarios in the Map Editor. OLD-SCHOOL WINDOWS. LIVING PIXELS. A familiar beveled interface opens onto busy little worlds. Workers harvest. Soldiers march. Dragons breathe fire. An adaptive fantasy soundtrack follows the action. Pause solo play whenever you need a moment to think. TRY IT. KEEP IT. Play the first two levels of Dragon Hunt, Royal Treasury, Reclaim the Realm and Rival Kingdoms for free, with unlimited randomized replays. Try one Daily Realm for free, with unlimited retries of that selected realm. One optional purchase unlocks the full game, including the remaining quest levels, Into the Badlands, Beyond the Pines, Daily Realm, Wilds, Siege, hosting multiplayer games and Map Editor. Solo quests, Wilds, Siege and local custom maps can be played offline. Daily calendar updates, optional reminders, online multiplayer, community maps, purchases and restoring purchases need an internet connection. Progress is saved on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Keepsweeper at Free against Shotgun King's $6.99. Keepsweeper also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 66%) and update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). Shotgun King's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (768 vs 39). 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
Keepsweeper is free to download; Shotgun King costs $6.99 up front. Keepsweeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 4.8 for Keepsweeper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shotgun King has 768 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Shotgun King's written reviews are positive against 90% of Keepsweeper's.
Shotgun King ships an update every 5 days, Keepsweeper daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shotgun King | Keepsweeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (768 ratings) | 4.8 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 90.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 768 — better | 39 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #58 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 468 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Plug In Digital | Flarup Industries |
Customer experience
Shotgun King
Keepsweeper
In-app purchases
Shotgun King
No in-app purchases
Keepsweeper
- Full Game$4.99








