Checkmate Showdown

Buy80%

Mostly Positive · 241 player reviews · Low confidence

Worth it for the right player.

BadRez Games · Fighting · Nov 15, 2023

Player review score
80%
Mostly Positive
Price
$19.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
26
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
4
Full audio4 of 4
Subtitles0 of 4

Should I buy Checkmate Showdown?

Buy it if you like
  • Graphics: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Servers and matchmaking: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Gameplay: 21 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Multiplayer: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 241 player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 180 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
20% of themes are praise40% are divided40% are complaints
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
7 of 180 sampled reviews raised it
The art style is simple, but nice, and the game actually feels very fun and is wildly easy to pick up thanks to its low barrier of entry.
Servers and matchmaking
Players who bring up Servers and matchmaking mostly praise it.
7 of 180 sampled reviews raised it
Some things I do like, right out of the gate: the presentation, practice mode with frame data, the combo system, rollback netcode, and the overall idea of "action chess", of sorts.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Graphics7 reviews
Servers and matchmaking7 reviews
Divided opinion
Co-op
88% still recommend
Performance
83% still recommend
Crashes
33% still recommend
Characters
67% still recommend
Players complain
Gameplay
67% still recommend
Difficulty
43% still recommend
Multiplayer
57% still recommend
Combat
50% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Multi-player
  • Online PvP
  • PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP
  • Single-player

Controller

  • Full controller support

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Remote Play Together
  • Stats
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Leaderboards

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$19.99

The lowest we've tracked is $3.99.

8 points recordedtoday · $19.99

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