Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Patch Notes for v1.621: Even more bugfixes | 2026-04-29 | Hi Royals,It's very important to us that when you get your butt handed to you by the game, you cannot put the blame on bugs. This new stability patch goes one more step towards achieving this.This patch fixes the last of the issues that were reported to us on our Discord. If you find any more, please come on there and tell us about it so that we may fix it!Here's the changelog for this version:\ Fixed a bug where if the pike-wielding apocalypse horseman killed a holoking, the game would go into an existential crisis.\ Unicorns and Sokoban rooks can no longer kill you by pushing you off the board's edge if you have Elusive.\ Throwing a Theocra |
| Patch notes for v1.620: More bugfixes | 2026-04-17 | Hello Royals,Here's another patch just in time for your regal weekend! This one fixes almost all the issues that were reported to us. We're just left with one tiny issue with the rebooting button in the modding interface, and one other issue where it seems that controller rumble may not work properly on Windows. We'll take care of both these issues next week!If you find any other bugs, please let us know about it on our Discord!Here's the full changelog for this version:\ Fixed a crash when a black piece's placement threatened an Imperial Shot Put\ Black Pieces can no longer attack Imperial Shot Puts.\ Bushido no longer disables folly shields |
| Patch Notes for v1.619: Bugfixes | 2026-04-16 | Hi Royals,Thank you so much for all the love on the Bad Company update! Somehow the game got its highest number of simultaneous players during the weekend, 4 years after its original release. That's crazy! We are so, so humbled.We're still on the hunt for some of the more complex bugs that were reported, but we did manage to fix quite a few annoying ones, so we wanted to get this patch out of the way, and there will be another patch soon to fix what problems remain. We also had a few issues with the MacOS build and also with SteamDeck controls when the update dropped, but I'm happy to say we already uploaded fixes for all these in the last fe |
| Shotgun King 1.6: Bad Company Update - Available Now! | 2026-04-11 | Dear Royals,This month Shotgun King turns 4 years old. 4 years in which more than half a million of you got the game and made it the success it is.We're eternally grateful. And what better way to express our gratitude than by giving you some more Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate? What better way, in fact, to celebrate Shotgun King’s 4th anniversary, than by inviting his few scattered remaining friends for a party?It’s lonely at the top. Usually. Especially when you’re a despicable, selfish, and maniacal ruler who is intent on massacring his own realm. But no longer! There are always those who can see their own profit in working along with su |
| New Shotgun King Beta, up now | 2026-03-31 | Hello Royals, After quite a few weeks of closed beta, we're getting ready for release with a quick round of public beta! v1.6 adds quite a lot of new content, and some rebalancing, so it's far from impossible that things would break here and there. Please let us know on our Discord! Some things we're particularly looking for: any bugs at all. does the game play well with a controller? on a Steam Deck? any problems on MacOS? We're already aware of one visual bug where the "HD text" is broken on some computers, we'll be fixing this soon. We're also currently working on updating the various translations. To join the beta, go into the game's prop |
| Shotgun King now on mobile (+ new beta for PC, coming soon) | 2026-02-24 | Royals, today is a special day.For years, you've asked us if the game would ever be on mobile. Some even justified their query, saying that they would simply really love to play the game while on the throne. And one had to admit, there's a beauty in that.But honesty cuts both ways, and to be honest, we weren't too interested in porting the game onto mobile. We made Shotgun King with a custom engine that was built with PC in mind. Our friends at Headbang Club worked miracles and ported the game (and the engine) to consoles, but surely mobile was a whole other can of worms, right?Well, yes, it was. But nevertheless, after the console port was d |
| Crashfix on tutorial | 2025-11-04 | Hi royals,It has come to our attention that the last build broke the tutorial. Now we all know that you're all very intelligent (perhaps more intelligent than players of other games, but we don't have the numbers) and you certainly never needed a tutorial in the first place, but nonetheless we have finally taken the time to fix the crash.That's the only change on this version. If anything else breaks, please let us know on our Discord!Cheers, wishing you a regal day, evening or night.-PUNKCAKE Délicieux |
| Crashfix on Steam Deck and MacOS for Chinese and a few other languages | 2025-10-14 | Hi royals!It's been a little while but we finally found some time to fix the issues with some of the languages on Steam Deck and MacOS. We sincerely apologize for the time it took to figure this one out. To be completely honest I'm still not sure what was wrong in the first place, but we managed to fix it.Complete changelog:The game should no longer crashes on launch for some languagesYou can now select all languages independently of which platform you're on2025 is turning out to be a year of experimentation with new ideas for us, with lots of new games being prepared for their Steam release, but we haven't forgotten about Shotgun King, and w |
| Thank You for 500k Units!! + other news | 2025-06-04 | Hello royals! As the game turns 3, we have reached a little over 500,000 units bought or activated on Steam! This is a huge milestone for us. Back when we created Shotgun King over a weekend, we never thought the game could possibly reach so many people! For us small indies, having such an audience is a huge privilege. We sincerely appreciate every last one of you all. We've been meaning to give you some news for a little while now, and so we figured this was the perfect opportunity! Thanks for your help with the survey! Not only are you numerous, you're also helpful! We got just about 2000 answers to the survey we posted back in January. Tha |
| Patch notes for v1.515g: German translation update | 2025-01-17 | Hi all, This is a really tiny patch, since we didn't get any new bug reports since v1.515f! (yay for that!) When we did the 1.5 update, we tried to have all the translations updated in time for it, and for the most part we succeeded. But sadly the person was going to take care of the German translation had some last minute personal issues to deal with. Initially we decided to wait it out, but after 3 months we finally decided to simply give the job to someone else. And so we have a full German translation again! Many thanks to Raven who ended up being the one to take care of it. We also got word that the French translation had a few mistakes |
| Take the survey and tell us what you think would make the game better! | 2025-01-09 | Happy new year royals! 2025 is here and while we don't have definite plans yet, we are hoping to do another content update this year. We already have a few ideas, but we figured it couldn't hurt to ask your opinion on what you'd like to see improved! And so we ask for ~10 minutes of your time to complete this little survey where you may tell us your thoughts, if you feel so inclined. The survey starts with a few questions to help us understand who's playing the game now and how, and then you'll get a few questions about QoL things, and then more specific questions about the different shotguns and ranks in throne mode, about endless mode and c |
| Patch notes for v1.515f: Bugfixes and More Stable Saves | 2025-01-04 | Hello royals! Happy new year! Here's another patch with a few bugfixes, but also with a new and hopefully more stable save system! This new system was built to avoid situations where saves would get corrupted without a safe backup for the game to revert to. It might still happen, but even then, the new system should be able to make it so you can still play the game at least. Here is the full changelog for this version: Now using a new save system which should be more stable! Fixed a crash when Lady in the Tower should have saved you from other pieces after landing in their way Fixed phrases with no space characters in story screens and in tut |
| Patch notes for v1.515e: More bugfixes | 2024-12-26 | Hello royals! Here's another patch with a few bugfixes for bugs that were reported after the patch from Monday! Apologies in particular for the text bug that cut off a lot of in-game descriptions for the Chinese, Korean and Japanese localizations. We realize how annoying it must have been, so we tried to fix it as fast as we could. If you find other bugs, please come report them on our Discord, it's much easier for us to keep track of them there! Here's the changelog for v1.515e: Phrases with no space characters (notably in Chinese, Korean and Japanese) are now properly broken down into multiple lines again Pieces will no longer randomly stop |
| Happy Holidays! Patchnotes for v1.515d: Fixes and new LATAM spanish localization | 2024-12-23 | Hello royals! We'd like to wish you some happy holidays and some not-too-horrible family dinners! We know how it is. We thought you might appreciate a new Shotgun King patch. It's mostly fixes, but it's always nicer to play a game without encountering bugs! We also got someone who knows their stuff to review and improve the spanish localization, and someone else to localize it further for Latin American Spanish! Yay for more localizations! Before leaving you with the changelog, now seems as good a time as any to point out that we have a lot of other games and that they are all on sale right now! We also have a few upcoming games that you can |
| Patch notes for v1.515: Bugfixes + New Rank Tracking per Shotgun | 2024-10-15 | Hello royals! Thank you for your patience on this one. There were a lot of bug reports in the last two weeks, thanks for that, it really helps us fixing them! Most of them were pretty minor, and some were more annoying. In particular we're really sorry about the issues that some Steam Deck and gamepad users encountered, some of which were pretty bad. We unfortunately do not have a Steam Deck ourselves to test the game, and the core of our community plays with mouse and keyboard, so we're low on controller-playing feedback. Nonetheless, we did our best to fix all the issues that were reported, including the ones specific to Steam Deck and cont |
| Patch notes for v1.514: Bugfixes! | 2024-10-03 | Hi royals! Thanks to everyone who reported bugs on our Discord! We did a first quickpatch on Tuesday to fix one hard crash and instances of the game crashing on launch on Linux and Mac. Now we take care of the more minor stuff. Here's the changelog for this one! Elusive now works properly with pieces than are blocked Pieces no longer update their move timer while they're stunned Only the first rat hitting a bleeding piece during the same turn gets the bleed bonus No more double sound on pause exit Stun now transfers to morphing pieces Adjusted deepwater description (Knight can't attack from moat) Commoner's Reign now adds a knight to the whit |
| Shotgun King v1.5 Content Update: New Cards, New Shotguns, New Mechanics & More | 2024-09-30 | Hello royals, We hope you had a good summer! We spent much of our own summer working on this update, beta-testing it, fixing it, and localizing it. It was so much work that it's coming a little later than we previously anticipated, but no matter, it is here now! Some highlights from this big update: new improved AI, 2 new shotguns, improved controller and Steam Deck support, 27 new achievements, and 43 new cards with brand new mechanics, such as pushing pieces off the board, new grenades, new stealth tactics, the Seer's Orb, re-rolling cards, unicorns, mangonels... and much, much more. Plus we're also adding three new localizations: Dutch, Ro |
| Summer Content Update news and spoilers! | 2024-06-28 | Hello royals! Earlier this year we announced we would update Shotgun King over the summer. Well, we've been working on it! We already have a few small spoilers for you and the outlines of a timeline! Note that all these spoilers were posted on our Discord server over the last few weeks! If you want to see the next ones before everyone else, then that's definitely the place to be! Say what you will about pawns, the white king sure has a way to inspire them, and to avoid the quick death they deserve for stealing your kingdom! Better practice some good old social distancing with pawns whenever this card is in play! I don't know about you but I'm |
| Shotgun King and our 17 other games now available for MacOS and Linux! | 2024-03-28 | Hi everyone! This is a quick post to let you know we just added native MacOS and Linux support to all our games, including Shotgun King and 17 others! PSA: If you've already been playing on Linux with Proton you may have to disable Steam Play to be able to play the game now that we have native support. This is a Steam bug, unfortunately we cannot fix it, but we hope Steam takes care of it eventually! To celebrate the news, we're holding a sale for almost all our games with 20% or 25% off on each of them! Go here to see them! We've also reworked the various bundles grouping the games and made a few new ones. We're looking at fixing a few minor |
| Patch notes for v1.41: Lots of minor fixes and changes for modding | 2024-02-01 | Hi punks! Thank you all so much for the love since the 1.4 update dropped! It's really heartwarming to see all the new positive reviews, it makes us feel like you appreciate the work we put into all this, and it's a very nice feeling! Plus it's so cool to see the mods popping up on the Steam Workshop, we're thinking of highlighting some of them soon! There's been quite a few minor bugs reported since the update dropped. Thankfully it seems we did manage to fix the major stuff during the beta week, so that's nice. There was also some unfinished business on the modding side, so we took care of that too. The patch notes are quite long as a resul |