- Quickpatch v1.623b - 4 August 2026
Hi royals!This is another quickpatch because I wanted to use the newest version of our engine which should be more stable on finicky systems. But I also took the opportunity to fix two leftover bugs in the codex and make it possible for modders to use the "vision" cheat functionality. That's litterally the entire changelog, look for yourself:\ Fixed a bug in the codex where card panels would grow in size when leaving the screen.\ Fixed another codex bug where the card panel that slides out when selecting another card was showing the new card instead of the old one.\ Mods can now trigger the "vision" cheat feature.\ Yet another engine update for added stability!And that's it for this one! Have a great week!-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞
- Patch Notes for v1.623: Another round of bugfixes - 15 July 2026
Hi Royals!Well, I was self-indulgent and hid a funny interaction in the last patch, and now I reap the consequences. There were a few new bugs, and it also made some pre-existing bugs more noticeable.So here's a new patch that fixes all that!We also found out that there was an issue with our engine, where one of the libraries it uses would fail to do its job properly on computers with an ARM processor, resulting in random errors in the game's code. (I swear it has nothing to do with our code being bad -- that's a separate issue)Changelog for v1.623: \ White pieces will no longer prioritize killing your black pieces over killing you if they have that chance.\ White pieces will now properly kill you instantly even if you are not a king.\ Player promotion now properly preserves jumps and other properties.\ Other black kings will no longer get killed instantly by white pieces who are not ye…
- Quickpatch v1.622b - 26 June 2026
Hi Royals!I hope you're having a nice Summer Sale. All our games are 40% off, just so you know. Anyway, that's not why I'm here.We just updated the game with another quickpatch. We're trying to get the game as stable as possible for the console port. I think we're getting there. If you find anymore bugs, please let us know on our Discord!Changelog for v1.622b:\ Added a message that says "hold ALT to force aiming" at the bottom of the screen when hovering over other actions besides moving.\ A black pawn promoting into a king no long crashes the game.\ You can no longer inspect other gamemodes after selecting a gamemode.\ Meeting with a spy no longer consumes its spy status, so that it can now still promote into a black piece afterwards.That's it for this one! Long live the king and stay hydrated!-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞
- Patch Notes for v1.622: Bugfixes - 19 June 2026
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 softlock when an arrow kills a holoking during the Horsemen fight.\ Fixed a softlock when two arrows would kill the king on the same turn during the Horsemen fight.\ Improved the accuracy of folly shields for projectiles.\ Hovering a card during the flip animation on the level-up screen will no longer describe the card as exhausted.\ Using the "busy" cheatcode in Charnier now properly acts like giving up on that raid.\ Can now switch directly from mouse-aiming to wand selection with LB.Have a great weekend! Lon…
- Enter the Final Checkmate - 25 May 2026
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 good, and when the developpers have approached us to bundle up, we agreed immediately! Which means that as owners of Shotgun King, you can get it now with an extra 10% off!We hope you enjoy! Thank you all for your support!-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞
- Patch Notes for v1.621: Even more bugfixes - 29 April 2026
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 version:\ Fixed a bug where if the pike-wielding apocalypse horseman killed a holoking, the game would go into an existential crisis.\ Unicorns and Sokoban rooks can no longer kill you by pushing you off the board's edge if you have Elusive.\ Throwing a Theocracized bishop at a rook while Castle is active will no longer confuse the game into crashing.\ Using Force-feeding when missing a grenade with the Attila will now properly load an additional shell anyway.\ Slayer's soul description no longer says you…
- Patch notes for v1.620: More bugfixes - 17 April 2026
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 let us know about it on our Discord!Here's the full changelog for this version:\ Fixed a crash when a black piece's placement threatened an Imperial Shot Put\ Black Pieces can no longer attack Imperial Shot Puts.\ Bushido no longer disables folly shields after its first use during a same turn.\ Pawns can no longer use Lightfoot to get close to the king if you have August Presence.\ Dead Flesh Wall pawns can now be pushed with knockback.\ You can now use a grenade after reloading it by jumping over…
- Patch Notes for v1.619: Bugfixes - 16 April 2026
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 the way, and there will be another patch soon to fix what problems remain. We also had a few issues with the MacOS build and also with SteamDeck controls when the update dropped, but I'm happy to say we already uploaded fixes for all these in the last few days. We do apologize about these issues happening in the first place, clearly we didn't make enough time to test both these platforms before the launch. A lesson for next time. Here's the full changelog for v1.619:\ Black Mist is no longer activa…
- Shotgun King 1.6: Bad Company Update - Available Now! - 11 April 2026
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 remaining friends for a party?It’s lonely at the top. Usually. Especially when you’re a despicable, selfish, and maniacal ruler who is intent on massacring his own realm. But no longer! There are always those who can see their own profit in working along with such rulers. Greedy little people with twisted principles, for whom the murder of others is frankly no big deal, if it means they get a share of the spoils. And so the Black King may now have some more pieces on his side thanks to some of the 30 new c…
- New Shotgun King Beta, up now - 31 March 2026
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 Steam Deck? any problems on MacOS? We're already aware of one visual bug where the "HD text" is broken on some computers, we'll be fixing this soon. We're also currently working on updating the various translations. To join the beta, go into the game's properties in your Steam library, go to the "Beta" tab, and switch your beta branch to "public-beta v1.6". Here is the current changelog for version 1.617b:\ +30 new cards\ New Mode: Charnier\ Throne Mode: +2 new shotguns.\ Throne Mode: +5 new ranks to…
- Shotgun King now on mobile (+ new beta for PC, coming soon) - 24 February 2026
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 engine that was built with PC in mind. Our friends at Headbang Club worked miracles and ported the game (and the engine) to consoles, but surely mobile was a whole other can of worms, right?Well, yes, it was. But nevertheless, after the console port was done, Headbang Club asked us whether they should do a mobile port as well, and we were like... "You can do that??" Dear reader, they could. They did! It took about a year to get it all done, but here it is at last! Shotgun King is finally available o…
- Crashfix on tutorial - 4 November 2025
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 else breaks, please let us know on our Discord!Cheers, wishing you a regal day, evening or night.-PUNKCAKE Délicieux
- Crashfix on Steam Deck and MacOS for Chinese and a few other languages - 14 October 2025
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 languagesYou can now select all languages independently of which platform you're on2025 is turning out to be a year of experimentation with new ideas for us, with lots of new games being prepared for their Steam release, but we haven't forgotten about Shotgun King, and we're still wanting to make new content for it. We'll have news in 2026.Cheers!-PUNKCAKE Délicieux
- Thank You for 500k Units!! + other news - 4 June 2025
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 give you some news for a little while now, and so we figured this was the perfect opportunity! Thanks for your help with the survey! Not only are you numerous, you're also helpful! We got just about 2000 answers to the survey we posted back in January. That is much more than we were expecting and we thank you for that! The survey is now closed and we've taken some time to look through the results, and will do so again when we get around to do a new update for Shotgun King. Some highlights from the re…
- Patch notes for v1.515g: German translation update - 17 January 2025
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 after 3 months we finally decided to simply give the job to someone else. And so we have a full German translation again! Many thanks to Raven who ended up being the one to take care of it. We also got word that the French translation had a few mistakes in it, so we also took the time to fix those as well. And that's it, this is the full changelog: Updated the german translation Fixed a few minor issues on the french translation Since it appears we're finally at a point where the game is as stable…
- Take the survey and tell us what you think would make the game better! - 9 January 2025
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 starts with a few questions to help us understand who's playing the game now and how, and then you'll get a few questions about QoL things, and then more specific questions about the different shotguns and ranks in throne mode, about endless mode and chase mode, and then on general gameplay. Please note that even if you haven't explored the full content of Shotgun King your opinions are still valuable to us and so we encourage you to complete the survey, and maybe tell us why you didn't explore t…
- Patch notes for v1.515f: Bugfixes and More Stable Saves - 4 January 2025
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 changelog for this version: Now using a new save system which should be more stable! Fixed a crash when Lady in the Tower should have saved you from other pieces after landing in their way Fixed phrases with no space characters in story screens and in tutorial not showing correctly Fixed CRT shader for MacOS Fixed 'require' only returning the first result of the required file Thanks for playing! Have a great weekend! -PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞
- Patch notes for v1.515e: More bugfixes - 26 December 2024
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, it's much easier for us to keep track of them there! Here's the changelog for v1.515e: Phrases with no space characters (notably in Chinese, Korean and Japanese) are now properly broken down into multiple lines again Pieces will no longer randomly stop acting at all Folly shields no longer warn you against safe Sokoban Rooks Knockback angle now calculated before strafe movement with Royal Loafers Sabotaging the Mangonel card will now cancel prepared mangonel shots Have some great holidays everyon…
- Happy Holidays! Patchnotes for v1.515d: Fixes and new LATAM spanish localization - 23 December 2024
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 American Spanish! Yay for more localizations! Before leaving you with the changelog, now seems as good a time as any to point out that we have a lot of other games and that they are all on sale right now! We also have a few upcoming games that you can get excited about and wishlist now if you can find it in your heart! You can find all this on our developper page! (consider following it!) Okay, here's the changelog: Inquisition bishops are less likely to target Moles and Undercover Mission tiles…
- Patch notes for v1.515: Bugfixes + New Rank Tracking per Shotgun - 15 October 2024
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 ourselves to test the game, and the core of our community plays with mouse and keyboard, so we're low on controller-playing feedback. Nonetheless, we did our best to fix all the issues that were reported, including the ones specific to Steam Deck and controller support. Please let us know how we did! On top of all these fixes, we also added a new thing that was requested on our Discord server: each individual shotgun now tracks the best rank you've won with it! We were not saving this progress befor…
