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5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Played a 300 moves game just to get checkmated in 11 different timelines at once. Now I understand the 'psychological horror' tag”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Its easier to win if you trace your opponents house and destroy their pc than actually playing the game”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I tried to explain this game to my friends but they were immediately concerned for my mental state. I can't wait to play this game yesterday.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:03 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Tiny Bugfix Update
This is a small update to fix a recently discovered bug. - It is no longer possible to submit certain illegal moves by clicking them really fast. Don't ask.
Feature and Content Update! Clocks, Guide, Puzzles, Pieces, Variants!
Changelog: Big changes to the in-game guide. New time controls (clocks) for competitive matches, and a new splash screen. Puzzles! Added 14 puzzles, some easy and some hard. Minor modifications to exi
New variants, other small patches, and future plans.
In the past few weeks, a series of patches have collectively included the the following changes: Misc: Mac and Linux versions are available (since about 8/29). Colorblind mode for r/g blindness. Some
More bugs fixed, more community guides.
A few minor patches have been released over the weekend to address the following issues: One known cause of the a "black screen" issue, believed to affect Intel HD 4000 and Intel HD 5500 GPUs. One cra
Community guide, Windows 7/8/8.1 support, and the first round of bug-fixes.
Thank you everyone who's playing the game, sharing it with their friends, and exploring the game together. Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 are now officially supported. Fixed a crash related to non-ascii charac
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Chess · Time Travel · Time Manipulation · Board Game · Difficult · Puzzle · Multiplayer · Turn-Based Strategy · Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Singleplayer · PvP (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.5dchesswithmultiversetimetravel.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, or 7. 64-bit. Processor: 2Ghz or better. Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatibility (everything since about 2010). Storage: 50 MB available space