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Dark Chess

76% positive of 155 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Tall Troll Games. Published by Tall Troll Games, Hawthorn Games.

About the game

THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.

Tagged by players

Chess
Time Travel
Board Game
Tabletop
Artificial Intelligence
Turn-Based Strategy
Turn-Based Tactics
Dark Fantasy
Turn-Based Combat
Dark
Tactical
Puzzle

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6.5/10 Dark Chess is a very famous kind of chess variant with incomplete information, in this game you will not only experience the chess variant of the fog of war, but also the ability to customize the pieces in the game. With a collection of chess variants, and ready to be loaded with more modes and features in the future, this game certainly has a lot of potentials. Nevertheless, although the game is still in…
6.4 h played when written. 113 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Vlad the Impaler II is literally impossible to win. Tried to win him over, like, 50 times, after that tried several chess engines to help me with the moves, then removed the game. Why is it so hard? Well, because AI has an ability to convert any piece in 2-tile radius from the king into its own. So when AI decides just to put a king closer to the center, and you have few long-range chess pieces, you're probably…
7.1 h played when written. 22 found it helpful.
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