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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Game update | Patch Notes for v1.622: Bugfixes Hello Royals! It's been a little while since the last patch, and only a few minor bugs were reported in that time, so we figured we'd fix those and hopefully be done with this update! If you find anymore bugs, please let us know in our Discord! Otherwise, 'til the next one! Here's the full changelog for v1.622: · \ You can now see your Charnier progress from the game mode menu. · \ Fixed a soft… | 23818668 | |
| Esports | Enter the Final Checkmate Hi Royals! Just a quick shout out for a new game coming out today: Enter the Chronosphere! Very much like Shotgun King, it's a turn-based action game, and very much like Shotgun King you will be dealing with placement and shot accuracy and various upgrades, but unlike Shotgun King, the levels are larger than the screen, and it's set in space, and the art is colorful and a bit trippy! It's very… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes for v1.621: Even more bugfixes 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 vers… | 23015581 | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.620: More bugfixes 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… | 22839057 | |
| Game update | Patch Notes for v1.619: Bugfixes 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… | 22813217 | |
| Major update | Shotgun King 1.6: Bad Company Update - Available Now! 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 remaini… | 22744976 | |
| In-game event | New Shotgun King Beta, up now 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 Stea… | 22550204 | |
| Community | Shotgun King now on mobile (+ new beta for PC, coming soon) 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… | — | |
| Game update | Crashfix on tutorial 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 els… | 20667153 | |
| Game update | Crashfix on Steam Deck and MacOS for Chinese and a few other languages 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 languages · Y… | 20359000 | |
| Community | Thank You for 500k Units!! + other news 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 gi… | — | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.515g: German translation update 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 a… | 17040895 | |
| Community | Take the survey and tell us what you think would make the game better! 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… | — | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.515f: Bugfixes and More Stable Saves 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 ch… | 16907314 | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.515e: More bugfixes 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… | 16855212 | |
| In-game event | Happy Holidays! Patchnotes for v1.515d: Fixes and new LATAM spanish localization 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… | 16838016 | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.515: Bugfixes + New Rank Tracking per Shotgun 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 ou… | 16053138 | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.514: Bugfixes! 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… | 15916125 | |
| Major update | Shotgun King v1.5 Content Update: New Cards, New Shotguns, New Mechanics & More 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… | — | |
| Community | Summer Content Update news and spoilers! 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 w… | — | |
| Community | Shotgun King and our 17 other games now available for MacOS and Linux! 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 even… | — | |
| Game update | Patch notes for v1.41: Lots of minor fixes and changes for modding 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… | 13335839 | |
| Major update | Shotgun King v1.4 is here! Hi punks! It arrived a few hours later than anticipated but it is here! The Shotgun King update that finally brings: · Controller support · A scripted tutorial · New art · & Steam Workshop modding To celebrate, Shotgun King is on a Daily Deal sale, with 30% off! We also encourage you to check out our brand new other game Super Algebrawl , which is also on sale for its launch, it came out just t… | — | |
| Community | Roadmap announcement for 2024: 2 new Shotgun King updates, 9 new games Hi everyone! Happy new year! It's been a little while but we have some exciting news! For the first time since PUNKCAKE Délicieux's creation in 2021, we have made a roadmap! It details our plans for 2024, including plans for 9 new games, and plans for 2 Shotgun King updates , the first of which is coming very soon: on the 20th of January! We invite you to take a look for yourself at our Seasona… | — | |
| Game update | Patch v1.38 & v1.39: engine update and game fixes Hi everyone! Some quick patch notes for you! Last week we did a sneaky engine update on the game. The engine update fixed a game-launching crash that some people had, but unfortunately it also broke a few things inside the game. So then we quickly made a patch for the first few issues that were reported, and just now we uploaded a second patch that fixes some other issues that remained. Sorry a… | — | |
| Community | Shotgun King no longer a PC exclusive! Hi everyone! Shotgun King just released on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series! In case you missed our last announcement, the console version features a few extra things such as new art, a tutorial, in-game achievements, and lots of interface work to make it ideal to play with a controller! Our friends at Headbang Club did all this and we thing they did a really good job of it a… | — | |
| Community | Shotgun King on consoles August 24th + all our other games are coming to Steam! Chess fans and frustrated monarchs of all horizons, hear hear! We have a double announcement for you today! Both have been in preparation for quite a long while, so we hope you're as excited as we are. First, Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series on August 24th!! This is all thanks to our friends at Headbang Club who did incredible w… | — |
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