Chess Cubed

Chess Cubed is my personal game of september so far. I've been waiting for this game for 3 Months now, and it was worth the wait completly! Thanks for reading my review, I hope you liked it as much as I like Chess Cubed. 10/10

Okay, I play chess and I am considered a strong tournament player. This game is not chess, it is pieces smashing into each other I think. I don't understand the positive reviews -- there isn't anyone around to play, no instructions on what exactly is going on, endless turns or something, and no AI. If the developer put instructions out there for what it all means, and if people played it, then perhaps it might be okay. That said, the one time I got lucky & I did manage to play it with someone, it just bugged me and did not remind me at all of chess. I will go back to playing real chess and hope that someday this hot mess of a game gets fixed.

Chess Cubed is one of the most unique games of this year I have played so far. Default Software brings an interesting twist on the classic game of chess by combining it with the dimension and rotation of an 8 by 8 Rubiks Cube. Although the mass amounts of potential and complexity this game has to offer might deter an average (epic) gamer, the rulesets and variety make this an enthralling experience without becoming an endless nightmare. In short, I would highly recommend this game to any puzzle fan. I bought this game for myself and my friend who was initally skeptical about the absurdity of playing on six different planes. We are avid chess fans and his concern was that, by essentially adding five more boards to an already complex and time consuming game, the experience would become bogged down and uninteresting. However, upon playing for the first hour, we ended up recognizing the true potential of this game. The rules of the game remain the same as chess in many ways, but differ ...

The devs essentially abandoned the game after release. No AI, nobody to play with, and the game mechanics are a fucking mess. This game had a lot of potential, but it seems to have been squandered by a dev team who quickly moved on to other things after a quick cash grab.