Chessformer
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 100% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.49)
- Last discount ended
- 354 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Windows only.
Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was April 2024. It has been discounted 42 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 51 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! S ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Oik 3 ($0.99, scores 72).
This site sampled 300 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 100 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 100 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
98% start to 54% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Chessformer scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1701190/chessformerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Oct 1.
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