Roguelike chess game Shotgun King will finally checkmate its way to consoles.

The game has only previously been available on PC (through Steam), but now console players can finally experience this fun title on August 24th across Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Here’s a blurb on the

Chess fans and frustrated monarchs of all horizons, hear hear!

We have a double announcement for you today! Both have been in preparation for quite a long while, so we hope you’re as excited as we are.

This is all thanks to our friends at Headbang Club who did incredible work of adapting the game to both the technical and design exigencies of modern consoles, and with very little help from us. The game even has some brand new art, a new interface for consulting achievements directly in-game, new controls, some new localizations, and a tutorial which I personally did the writing for!

The result is super slick and professional and we can’t wait for you to see it!

Plus, I mean, who hasn’t been wanting to play Shotgun King on the go with their Nintendo Switch, right?