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Mobile game · 2021

Lazy Chess

Lazy Chess uses the chess engine Stockfish to narrow your choices down to the best two possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? The board plays as a real chess game: defend, progress, capture, or castle. Those new to Chess will learn creative moves and tactics, and those with experience can play with speed against a world-class neural network. Compete against an AI opponent, online with strangers or friends, or pass-and-play with the person next to you!

Estimated daily players

~1200.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 4780

Estimated total players

~2,4000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 4205.2K

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Jan 26, 2021AndroidiOS

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 51%
  • App Store 27%
  • Steam 13%
  • Reddit 9.3%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Lazy Chess, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, Steam, Reddit, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~120

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 4780

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~2,400

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 4205.2K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Lazy Chess per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~2,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Lazy Chess where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

33

Average rating
4.0
Installs
1K+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

72

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.4

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Steam players in game

0

Reviews
10

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

How many people gather around Lazy Chess outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

6

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026

Subscribers to the game’s subreddit.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for Lazy Chess: Discord, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Lazy Chess?

We estimate that about 2,400 people have played Lazy Chess — plausibly between 420 and 5.2K. Around 120 of them play on a given day, in a range of 4 and 780. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store, Steam, Reddit and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Lazy Chess still active?

Yes. Lazy Chess is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Lazy Chess player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

How big is the Lazy Chess Reddit community?

Lazy Chess has 6 members on Reddit, as of August 9, 2026.

When was Lazy Chess released?

Lazy Chess was released on January 26, 2021 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Lazy Chess available on?

Lazy Chess is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play, App Store (iPhone) and App Store (iPad).

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