Chess Ultra

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 2,352 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 5.7h for positive, 1.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (83.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (38)

• Chop Wood Make a capture or exchange 100%
• Doubled Pawn Have two pawns of the same colour on the same file 90%
• Check Put an opponent in check 89%
• Absolute Pin Pin a piece against your opponent's King 80%
• Checkmate Win a game 66%
• Promotion Advance a pawn to the eighth rank 64%
• O-O Castle kingside 55%
• Queen Sacrifice Sacrifice the Queen then go on to win the game 49%
• Spanish Bishop Develop a White King Bishop to b5 48%
• Stalemate Draw a game by stalemate 43%
• O-O-O Castle queenside 38%
• Elo Beat an opponent with an Elo rating higher than yours 35%
• Octopus Place a White Knight on e6 35%
• En Passant Perform an en passant capture 27%
• Piece Collector Capture 100 pieces 26%
• Elo Elo Beat an opponent with an Elo rating more than 75 higher than yours 24%
• Double Check Deliver a check by two pieces at the same time 24%
• Stranger Danger Create a random online game 24%
• Family Fork Using a Knight simultaneously attack the enemy King and Queen 17%
• Elo Elo Elo Beat an opponent with an Elo rating more than 150 higher than yours 16%
• Underpromote Promote a pawn to a Rook, Bishop, or Knight instead of a Queen 13%
• Blind Pigs Manoeuvre a pair of Rooks onto your opponent’s second rank 11%
• Learner Complete all the tutorials 10%
• Friendly Fire Issue an online challenge to a friend 10%
• Bobby Time Play a game using the Fischer timer 7.1%
• Back-rank Mate Deliver checkmate by a Rook or Queen along a back rank, with the King's escape blocked by friendly pieces 4.9%
• Chess Champion Beat the computer on Grandmaster difficulty 1.9%
• Alekhine’s Gun Stack two Rooks one behind another in the same file with the Queen at the rear 1.8%
• Problem Solver Complete 50% of the chess challenges 1.2%
• Tournament Amateur Win a tournament 1.1%
• Scholar's Mate Win a game in four moves 1.0%
• Boden's Mate Deliver checkmate by two crisscrossing Bishops, with the King's escape blocked by friendly pieces 0.7%
• Epaulette Mate Deliver checkmate where the King is blocked on both sides by his own Rooks 0.7%
• Fool's Mate Win a game in three moves 0.7%
• Problem Solved Complete all the chess challenges 0.7%
• Tournament Champion Win a 32 player tournament 0.6%
• Tournament Master Win 20 tournaments 0.6%
• Tournament Pro Win 5 tournaments 0.6%