Ignore earlier reviews. It's been upgraded. Seriously. If you want tactical depth, breadth, and challenge - even if you have zero love for or interest in "Chess" - get this. If you do love chess and you wouldn't mind some pretty colors and animation with an amazing AI - get this. If you're looking for a fantasy RPG with a decent plot, any character advancement, decent dialogue, or decent optimization... don't get this... Don't let the time on Steam fool you: I played all the way through a much earlier version. A worse version. I came back and got thoroughly wow'ed... WOW have these devs (a) listened to reviewers, and (b) improved the game 100x over. Awesome job, guys - most teams don't listen like that. I have to admit, the early version was a bit embarrassing: typos everywhere, glitches, mediocre AI, poor game customization, no skipping cutscenes that you've seen a thousand times because that stupid boss owns your face... All fixed and then some. The AI is *not* mediocr...

Chessaria is the kind of game where you would play when deciding to take a break from your conventional chess games. It comes from many different problem and solution levels. I do agree that some of the stages doesn't state their objective clearly but however, it's puzzle and problem-solving nature makes it challenging. As not all games are perfect, the developers are still working on to rectify the problems. Do give them some time and try it out. Hope this review helps!

Bought the game, wishing I hadn't, see rant below for why. Am generally stuck ,bored and not enjoying game. __________________________________________________________________________ Extreamly frustrating. Failed the Golem mission for something like the 20th time. A skip button to get past the beginning Bla Bla Bla might be nice. Not exactly sure what I supposed to do to win. An explanation of what spaces the Golem can attack would be nice. I managed to get behind him and take out a crystal but the he appeared to take out a peice 2 spaces away and the game locked up. Also I've never been a fan of hidden object games, hidden peices and hidden clue are not fun. One of the Underworrrld missions has the player trying to get 3 peices into 3 spaces on the other side of the board and there is a hidden peice behind a rock. The stand on correct runes is rather difficult to find the clues on which runes are the right ones. Also the graphics look nice, nice and cluttered. Can't tell what is a...

Very nice game that tickles a chess players imagination. The moves are basically same as in a regular chess game, but in this game the four knights variation may actually mean that you have four knights while opponent has 20 pawns. As you can tell from this some very nice situations can occur. There are 100 levels when I write this and it took me 19 hours of play to complete the game. I am an advanced chess player but not one that would participate in any tournaments or anything. To play this you do need to apply basic chess principles like controlling the center in some puzzles and on other levels perhaps bust through from the sides. So you need to evaluate the position for weaknesses. Some tactical and strategic knowledge and skill is required to really enjoy this game. I would not recommend this game to a total noob, but if you have played some chess this is a very nice break from traditional games. For whatever reason the game seems to be resource hungry, as I have a 1080Ti but ...

Not really interesting puzzles, and the AI often just plays stupid moves. Maybe for people who want to learn the rules of chess, but for nobody else to be honest. Edit: On request from the developers I gave the game another try, and they certainly improved the game since I last played. I have to make one thing very clear, you wont find classic chess puzzles in this game. The campaign mode is a row of modified full chess games, such as playing on a 4x8 board while having to capture the enemy knight instead of the king. I could not spot any system in the board setups and starting positions you encounter, and I therefore do not know what concepts the game wanted to teach me. There really is no meaningful story to speak of, but the colorful cast and voice dialogues could appeal to kids. The game also features a variety of chess modes outside of the campaign mode, including normal chess, and staples like horde, but also some original ones. If you like to play full games of variation c...

Perhaps this game gets more compelling later on, but it honestly made such a bad first impression with me that I really don't care. If you are a fan of chess, or are even just someone who is intrigued by chess, this game is not for you. This is not a chess game, and it is not going to make you any better at chess. It barely even teaches you how to play chess. Rather than teaching you any fundamentals or useful techniques, within the first dozen levels, you will have played that many tedious mobility puzzles. Most of these puzzles revolve around this moronic "civilians" mechanic, meaning that your objective will be to shamble one or two pieces all over the board, trying to keep a group of slowly advancing pawns from capturing these useless "civilian" pieces that just sit at the back of the board. Instead of discovering clever ways to use your pieces, and learning about important concepts like forks and skewers, you will be spending your time trying to figure out how to keep yourse...

I've been playing chess for a little over a year now. This game was honestly just what I needed to add a little spice to the age old game. Still myself an amateur at the game, it helped make sure that I can take chess strategy and apply it in different ways to achieve various objectives. Would recommend this to anyone looking to improve their spacial awareness and synergy between pieces.

Very original, challenging game for chess and puzzle enthusiasts. Well done.

Myself and a friend purchased this game for cross-platform play (pc-mac) and although it is indeed capable of that there are a few problems which I feel I should warn people about. First I'd like to go over the positives: - The single player adventure mode is good fun and the puzzles are fresh and inventive. - There was clearly a lot of effort put into the art work and models which are both great. - The cross-platform play works as advertised. - There are several multi-player game modes which is a nice addition to regular chess. However that is pretty much it. Next I'd like to discuss the negatives: - The first thing I feel I need to point out is how taxing this game is to run. My friend who also purchased the game as I say has a good Mac and I have medium spec gaming laptop (the ram, CPU and graphic specs of our machines were all well above the recommended specs for the game). When running Chessaria it made both of our machines overheat to unacceptable levels within 10 minutes of ...

I've played chess for a very long time & have lately not found too many players where I live. I stumbled upon this game on Steam and was pretty blown away. At first I thought - oh - a chess game that just animates the moves in a chess game. No- it's definitely not that. This game not only presents some polished animations, but more importantly improves your real chess game by continually presenting you with new variations and situations which do not normally exist on a chess board. Very cool game & I would highly recommend!