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Master of Chess

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!

Released Sep 9, 2025 Developer BRANE Platforms Windows · Mac ChessTurn-Based TacticsSportsEducationSandbox
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

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.

83.1%positive296 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Great chess game”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“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 played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.

70all-time peak
0 25 50 2025 2026 23 avg · Jun 2024

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.

33achievements
4.0%median completion
0.9%rarest: Queen of Chess
35.6% of players 31.3% of players 28.9% of players 12.8% of players 12.4% of players 6.9% of players 6.9% of players 6.8% of players 6.3% of players 5.9% of players 5.8% of players 5.7% of players 5.2% of players 5.2% of players 4.5% of players 4.1% of players 4.0% of players 3.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.4% of players 3.3% of players 3.3% of players 3.2% of players 2.7% of players 2.5% of players 2.3% of players 1.7% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 35.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
35.6%First Game Won — You've won the first game of your career.
31.3%Total Control — You've won a tournament while winning every match.
28.9%Unexpected Win — You've won a match while being more than 400 Elo points weaker. Great job!
Rarest badges of honor
0.9%Queen of Chess — You've became a women World Chess Champion.
1.0%How do you do, fellow kids? — You've won a tournament while being over 50 years old.
1.3%Puzzle Grandmaster — You've mastered puzzle solving.

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.

$19.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$15.99lowest since tracking began2026-08-12
US19.99 USD
EU19.50 EUR
UK16.75 GBP
Australia29.50 AUD
Canada25.99 CAD
Japan2,300 JPY
Brazil59.99 BRL
China76.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$11 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$22

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-17 09-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 22, 2026
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

May 26, 2026
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

Jan 04, 2026
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

Sep 26, 2025
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

Sep 10, 2025
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

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.

GenresSimulation, Sports
Player tagsChess · Turn-Based Tactics · Sports · Education · Sandbox · Management · Board Game · Turn-Based Strategy · Tabletop · Character Customization · Female Protagonist · 2D (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Vietnamese, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish
Achievements33
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