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Master of Chess
Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide. Become World Champion in the first and only chess career simulator!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.
“There seems to be a game breaking bug. When I matched against an opponent, there is a chance the ai will start calculating forever. Other than that, its an unique game. I hope this issue will be fixed, its a known issue. I'll give it a thumbs up, but I will have to try to refund…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Great chess game”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I think it had promise originally for the concept, but didn't really seem to deliver. As another reviewer mentioned this doesn't feel like it'll improve your game, in fact to some extent it might make it worse. The dev (as is his right) seems to have pretty much moved off of it…”
— a player, Steam review · 103 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
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Overall improvements
Heya, this branch has been on dev/debug for months. Hopefully it will improve the experience for some of you! Bug Fixes & Stability Resolved a major game-saving bug, improved logic around game-breakin
Beta update - 1.0.6b
Heya! I've made a small update to the beta branch that aims to fix the annoying and often reported "game is hanging" issue. It's a tricky problem and I'm afraid the 'fix' might introduce some issues w
New year update
Heya! It's holiday season. Happy holidays to all of you! I've had bunch of changes just hanging around on a dev branch for a long while. I'm hoping players on that branch have tested it and there's no
Fixes & Brazil
This update brings a mix of fixes and a new language option. Big thanks to yuuki for joining the discord and offering his help to get the game translated in Brazilian Portuguese. Databases from the St
Post Launch Cleanup #1
Patch Notes Fixed an issue where time did not reset properly between games. Fixed a bug where pausing the game blocked button interactions. Fixed a bug where the first move in the main menu game could
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Simulation, Sports |
| Player tags | Chess · Turn-Based Tactics · Sports · Education · Sandbox · Management · Board Game · Turn-Based Strategy · Tabletop · Character Customization · Female Protagonist · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Vietnamese, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish |
| Achievements | 33 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space