Escape custom chess boards with your king while your opponent hunts you down. Play campaigns, solve puzzles, compete locally or ranked online, and build your own puzzles and campaigns in the editor.
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Chesscape Room is a chess variant where you race to escape through a door with your king while your opponent hunts you down. Outrun and outsmart opponents trying to trap you across irregular boards, holes, and chokepoints.
In Chesscape Room, the King is not just a piece to defend. It is your runner. You win by reaching a door with your King while your opponent tries to cut you off and hunt you down. Instead of memorizing openings, you will be reading space and timing: when to race, when to block, when to trade, and when a single tempo decides everything.
Play through handcrafted official campaigns and standalone puzzles built to teach specific ideas and challenge your skill. You will learn how to race versus blockade, how to force an opponent onto a bad route, how to recognize door traps and decoys, and how to keep your King safe while still making progress toward escape.
When you want pure competition, play how chess is meant to be played: against humans. Chesscape Room supports local versus for tense couch matches, online multiplayer, and ranked play with ratings so you can track improvement over time and measure how well your escape and blocking instincts hold up.
Chesscape Room comes with an editor that lets you generate boards in seconds and craft boards in minutes. Place holes and doors, set pieces and positions, test instantly, then publish single boards as puzzles or bundle them into a full campaign for others to play.
If you like making puzzles, it becomes a workshop where you can build clean, readable challenges using the familiar language of chess.
Campaigns: Official and player-made campaigns to play through
Puzzles: Single interesting set ups to solve, one at a time
Versus: Local and online ranked multiplayer
Custom: Generate custom boards for you to play endlessly
Editor: Allows you to generate or craft boards and create your very own campaign others can play online
Automatic account creation based on your Steam profile
The option to add your profile to show off your ratings.
Switch between 3D and 2D view anytime
Support to play with keyboard & gamepads
Export and import your board set ups to share with anyone with codes
Chess players
Fresh tactics without opening memorization
Training for calculation, geometry, tempo, and king safety
Positions that reward creativity and punishment of slow moves
Puzzle fans
Clean, grid-based brain-teasers
Short, satisfying solutions
Difficulty that ramps naturally without requiring chess mastery
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Languages: English
Reviews
I like chess, but I am not the best player. I actually almost thought one level was impossible, but then I realized I wasn't thinking it through. The get away angle makes it really tense. For some reason I get really nervous being close to the door. I was wondering what happens when you checkmate your hunter, and apparently they skip the turn and then you have to still get to the door to finish the game. Pretty interesting. I found this out in a custom game.
Really interesting chess variant. The intro campaign shows off its fun. It was even a bit challenging near the end. Basically you have to scheme to get your king to a door, which leads to interesting tactics. I had my king 3 squares from the door. Opponent had a rook and two knights. I could sprint and hope, or I could sacrifice my last bishop to force their rook onto a bad diagonal. I went for it. The rook took. I slipped through with one tempo to spare. Pretty blown away by the editor, seems this game will be aimed at allowing every to contribute boards and campaigns too, which should be lots of fun. I can't wait for the online multiplayer, I have no one to play locally with.
Chesscape Room is a very creative game! I'm not an active chess player, but I ended up really enjoying this game. The premise is very simple: reach the end of the level with the King piece, and you will eventually have auxiliary pieces (like rooks, knights, etc.) to help you. At the same time, there are enemy pieces that intend to make your life difficult. It's a game with very fun mechanics and several interesting game modes. I'm eagerly awaiting more campaigns. The first main campaign is very fun. In short, I recommend it to everyone.
游戏创意挺好，但AI垃圾得不行，玩个大师难度，AI思考大半天还是乱走一通，毫无难度可言，这样的游戏还敢卖这么贵也是牛。
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