Really Bad Chess

🇺🇸 United States
STFJ LLC  | 
47
ASO score
Text
64/100
Reviews
0/100
Graphic
60/100
Other
0/100
rating
App Rating
3.8
rating
Votes
3.38K
rating
App Age
9y 2m
rating
Last Update
Mar 03, 2022
rating
iAP
$0.99 - 3.99

Compare with Category Top Apps

Metrics
Current App
Category Top Average
Difference
Rating
3.97
4.63
-14%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
3.4K
582.3K
-99%
App Age
9y 2m
6y 7m
+38%
In-app Purchases Price
$2
$25
-90 %
Update Frequency
1384d
26d
+5 162%
Title Length
16
23
-30%
Subtitle Length
24
27
-11%
Description Length
2 100
2 392
-12%
Number of Screenshots
1365
1305
+5 %
Size
91MB
362MB
-75 %

Category Ranking in United States

All
New
Trending Up
Trending Down
Top Dec 08, 2025 Dec 15, 2025
No results were found!
Top Dec 08, 2025 Dec 15, 2025
No results were found!
Top Dec 08, 2025 Dec 15, 2025
No results were found!
Top Dec 08, 2025 Dec 15, 2025
No results were found!

Ranking Keywords in United States

Keywords App Rank
Illustration
Analyze this and other apps using Asolytics tools

Text ASO

Title (
Characters: 16 of 30
)
Really Bad Chess
Subtitle (
Characters: 24 of 30
)
Chess minus memorization
Description (
Characters: 2100 of 4000
)
Really Bad Chess is just like chess, but with totally random pieces. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns — why not? As heard on NPR's Weekend Edition 5 out of 5 Stars "An essential puzzle experience for anyone even remotely interested in strategy games" - TouchArcade Whether you play chess daily, or quit just after learning the rules, this small twist will open the door to an entire new world of chess. ------WHATS IN THE “BOX”? The free version of Really Bad Chess lets you compete vs. an AI in Ranked, Daily, or Weekly Challenges. Improve your skills using the included Freeplay mode. A single in-app purchase unlocks Versus Mode so you can compete against your friends locally! It also removes ads, displays captured pieces, and adds soothing alternate color-palettes to choose from. ------REALLY BAD PRESS "Makes chess fun even if you’re really bad" - The Verge "Feels more modern than chess has ever felt" - Applenapps "Really Bad Chess takes a really bad idea and somehow manages to make it a lot of fun." - Pocket Gamer "Really good fun" - MacLife ------A WORD FROM THE DEVELOPER Chess is one of those games I always wished I enjoyed, but its commitment to beauty, elegance, and perfect balance always turned me away. Really Bad Chess removes these boring restrictions and flips chess on its head. As much as random pieces change the game in some ways, I was really surprised to notice how much the game remains the same, and how powerful some pieces are — you've never truly struggled against a pawn until you've struggled against a pawn in the back row. For chess pros, Really Bad Chess will give you a new type of challenge — the pieces & the moves are the same, but you'll have to throw out your openings and your understanding of normal patterns of play. For novice chess players (like most of us), Really Bad Chess greatly opens up the game. Instead of starting by studying openings, in your first games you'll get to discover the joy (and challenge!) of learning how to checkmate. I hope you have as much fun with Really Bad Chess as much as I did making it. -zach}
Read more

Visual ASO

Screenshots

Rating & Reviews

Reviews Overview
🧐 Coming Soon…
Rating
3.8
3 375 voters

Some Latest Reviews

XlenceOfExecution
20 Nov, 2025
3
I’ve play this game/app for years, and notice as of recently, users don’t get five undos for watching an ad. Instead, the ad runs, and users can’t close out of the ad. I’ve tried multiple times and do not receive credit for watching the ads. Please fix.
Owenazuris
18 Sep, 2025
5
Really bad chess is really great chess. You get a board each day with random pieces. Sometimes it is fair but usually it will favor you or the computer. You must make the best of whatever you get. I feel like playing this has made me a better chess player.
AlexB- iOS dev
02 Jun, 2025
4
Great concept and my skill has improved. However I dislike that an ad is shown whenever I choose “try again?” after losing. There is a bug that prevents you from going back to the Daily board after you use your two attempts. It is not click-able until you select another board first, go back to the main menu, and select Daily, and a secondary bug occurs where instead of the Daily board, you see the last board you viewed (but it still says “Daily” at the top
Teach me too
28 May, 2025
2
I’ve written twice now with no response. Firstly, I love the game BUT if you lose, the screen goes to black and it’s almost impossible to see what move(s) you should have made to avoid checkmate. Next, the game had free undo’s, this was removed, then restored with watch an ad for a single undo. Problem is that the game crashes at the last second and no undo is granted. You have to restart the game and start where you were with NO undo offered. Finally, if you lose all but your king (on both sides) you lose - there’s no chance to get 50 moves and win by not getting taken.
Tamron_Canner
23 May, 2025
5
This game gives you the most anger you have felt playing a mobile game, but winning feels deserved and accomplished. Stupid and addicting 10/10 play it everyday
Tamron_Canner
02 May, 2025
5
This game guves you the worst boards and good luck getting above 60, but winning feels deserved. Stupid and addicting 10/10
Аlаn
24 Apr, 2025
4
This is easily one of my favorite games here, from one of my favorite dev. Absolute genius! But recently it has an annoying bug that’s effectively stopping me from enjoying the game. I’ve reached a very high rank (150+), and at such levels, clicking the “ranked mode” button from the main menu becomes very laggy. The app freezes for quite a few seconds before loading the game, if at all. If I repeatedly surrender and get to ranks below 150, the loading time becomes < 1s again. This behavior is consistent across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Please, Zach, if you’re still maintaining this game, it would be fantastic if you look into this. Thank you!
UghaUgha
21 Apr, 2025
3
My side always has more queens than my opponent if we are supposed to be equal equally; sometimes I will have five queens and a bunch of pawns against a huge number of middle pieces, which actually puts me at a severe disadvantage. Otherwise, there are very few pawns, and they are often on the back row, which is annoying. Currently I prefer chest 960, although if he fixes those couple problems, I will prefer this.
Feeling defrauded
12 Mar, 2025
3
Nice concept. But it needs a stalemate option. I am playing a game against the AI and down one piece and a pawn. The AI and I keep repeating the same move. I won’t break the pattern because then I will loose. And the computer for some reason isn’t breaking the pattern. This should be a stalemate. Otherwise the game goes on forever…

Other

Additional Information
Rating:
3.85
Voted: 3.38K
App Store Link:
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Board, Games, Entertainment, Puzzle
Size: 91MB
iAP: 0.99 - 3.99 $
App Age: 9 years 2 months
Release Date: Oct 12, 2016
Last Update: Mar 03, 2022
Version: 1.4.7
Version history
1.4.7
Mar 03, 2022
bug fixes
1.4.6
Mar 02, 2022
Fixes to streak code.
Version history