Really Bad Chess

Really Bad Chess is just like chess, but with totally random pieces.

Total ratings

4.06 (Rating count: 43,561)

Review summary

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Pros

Clever and fun concept of chess with random pieces
Unique and engaging gameplay that changes traditional chess strategies
Daily and weekly challenges are enjoyable
Ability to replenish moves by watching ads is seen as fair
Great potential for learning chess without the complexity of standard rules

Cons

Frequent bugs and issues after updates, making the game unplayable at times
Excessive advertisements that disrupt gameplay
AI can take a long time to make moves, leading to frustration
Issues with restoring premium features and in-app purchases
Repeated moves by AI leading to unnecessary stalemates

Most mentioned

AI behavior and performance problems
Game-breaking bugs after updates
Advertisements negatively affecting gameplay experience
Restoring in-app purchases and premium version issues
Difficulty tracking game state and captures

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Recent rating average: 2.20

All time rating average: 4.06

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Date	Author	Comment
2024-10-16	Shawn Rodgers	Seems fun! Maybe? Really really needs to show what pieces the AI has captured. It's way too hard keeping track of all the random pieces when you only see your own captures. Feels like playing in the dark w/o that. Like "shrug, I won't remember it anyway so who cares?" 🤷‍♂️ . And then it's just random chaos. Plenty of room for that under the Moves count 🤷‍♂️
2024-06-30	Jenn N	Bought the original premium version so my friend and I can play while waiting for food at restaurants, at the park, etc. Recently received a message saying my premium version was "outdated" and I no longer met requirements to use those features. They increased the price and my original purchase doesn't even apply toward that amount. I'm not paying twice for features I thought I had already purchased.
2024-05-31	Kinuth Gelmo	Like I've seen others mention, the most recent update completely broke the game. UPDATE: seems like they've finally addressed the bug making the game unplayable, though they've also introduced a few more issues. Now the computer AI behaves differently and tends to repeat the same moves over and over, even when there are no other possible moves for me, resulting in an unnecessary stalemate that forces you to surrender, even if both players have multiple pieces still on the board.
2024-05-16	Blekeke	UPDATE : They finally fixed this app. it's now working again. Solid game, 4/5 for how long it took them to fix the issues. OLD : Don't even consider this until there's a fix. Recent update made the game completely unplayable. been playing for years, now suddenly it's unplayable and has been for something like a month with no communication from the Dev. Now the board doesn't reset after a win or loss or surrender, it just resets to the move before you won or a few moves back.
2024-04-21	cody AlBright	I love this game. It's amazing. For some reason I can't restart my matches anymore. I make the winning move, and it just stays like that. My current daily wins is 6, it counts the win but I can't play it twice like I should be able too and my weekly match is stuck on one from weeks ago. Even if I pause and try to surrent to reset, it kicks me back to the current board.
2024-04-05	Tyr Hawkaluk	Da da da daa... And Really Bad Chess. Updated review (April 2024). Still a fun game, and a brilliant twist on classic chess, but the app has gotten worse for no good reason. There's no more victory screens (so it seems like the matches stall out), endless move loops by the computer (forcing surrender sometimes), my streaks keep resetting themselves, and more. The lack of ability to undo checkmate moves is still annoying too, but that's always been there. Such a sad fall from a 5 star game.
2024-03-20	Ricky Spires	This game is interesting. Playing chess with random pieces does change the strategy. Problem I'd, when I play ranked mode it is now stuck on the same game at the same move. I have surrendered the game, won the game, restarted the app, reinstalled the app, and restarted my phone. Nothing is working to get this back to being playable. OK, uninstalling
2024-01-15	Katrina Ordonez	I used to enjoy this game immensely, even with the original update that massively increased the amount of ads if forced you to watch. unfortunately, ever since the newest update, when you lose or surrender a daily or weekly game, it doesn't restart you from the beginning. it takes you back to the last undo you used. this makes it virtually unplayable. I had a 64 week streak going but now I can't continue that because the app won't let me start the weekly challenge from scratch. uninstalling.
2023-11-27	Bobby Fleming	I used to enjoy this game, I would come back every day for the daily board. I enjoyed it so much I actually paid for the full version, which is something I don't often do for mobile games. The latest update removed my purchase so I am once again subjected to ads. I was unable to restore my purchase. An alert came across the screen which makes me think this is very much intentional. Very disappointed; I will not be spending any more nor will I play it any longer.
2022-08-05	Skyler Taylor Windham	I love the concept of the game, I didn't know anything about chess but after playing free play for a while and it goes me understand what I can move where. However the ads are completely unreasonable... I understand having an ad after like every other round, but say you lose, the ai move so fast and ends the game just to load the ad so fast you have no idea who won or lost, how, or why. After every.. single... Round... only to click the X 3 or 4 times just to start a new round... Might delete..

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