
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.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 25 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
THIS IS NOT YOUR STANDARD CHESS!
Dark Chess takes the core rules of the world's most famous board game and throws them into the unknown. The Fog of War hides the enemy army. This is no longer a game of memorized openings; it's about stealth, tactical risk-taking and making educated guesses before stepping into the dark.
Note: If you are a chess purist looking for a perfectly balanced, zero luck simulator, this game will frustrate you. But if you love asymmetric puzzles, rule-bending mechanics and brain-teasing strategy, welcome to the dark.

Fog of War: Analyze what you can see, predict what is hiding in the shadows.
Story-Driven Campaign: A fully narrated adventure against legendary masters.
Asymmetric Boss Battles: Enemies have unique abilities and cheat the rules. Outsmart them.
Brain-Bending Puzzles: Levels designed to test your spatial logic and survival skills.
Customization and Rewards: Earn achievements by solving difficult puzzles to unlock visual upgrades and customize your avatar.
THE CAMPAIGN: ASYMMETRIC BOSS FIGHTS
Step into a fully narrated, single-player story campaign where you fight Queens and Kings of the past. Do you dare to challenge Genghis Khan, outsmart King Solomon or terrify Ivan the Terrible?
Be warned: they do not play by the rules.
Historical leaders act as boss fights with unique and unfair abilities, from infinite piece respawns to randomized traps and poisoned boards. You cannot win by playing standard chess. Use whatever it takes to your advantage, slip past heavy defenses and assassinate the King or the Queen.
Expect the unexpected after the very first move.
Every hard-fought victory deserves a prize. Dark Chess actively rewards your tactical brilliance! For every complex puzzle you solve, difficult boss you defeat, or clever trap you set, you will earn achievements that unlock new visual upgrades. Build your collection and fully customize your in-game avatar to show off your progress.
Whether you are a board game enthusiast, a fan of tactical games or a puzzle-solver looking for a thrilling mental challenge, Dark Chess will test your ability to adapt and survive.

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Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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I almost enjoy the game; the AI voices were such a poor decision. The game IS decent, and there's plenty of good taste involved, so it makes no sense to drop the quality like that over such a poor decision. Whomever suggested to go for AI voices is a moron in my books. If it was a shared decision, whole bunch of morons.
非常好玩。玩不腻
I'm not great at chess but to immediately get destroyed constantly is not fun, switched the difficulty same result. Not casual friendly
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish - Latin America*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
[h1] Unplayable [/h1] Terribly buggy. I’ve only played three matches and already encountered a game-breaking issue. Pieces are being displayed on the board that no longer exist. How am I supposed to play chess when there are pieces shown that I can’t select or move because, effectively, they aren’t there?
Amazing!100/100
有一个很好的想法,但很多战役十分恶心。 我可以理解用迷雾掩盖棋局的设计,这一部分是一个很好的创新点。 然而一些战役与策略性毫无关系,如沙卡国王。你只能依赖于随机性尝试通关。这导致通关一次战役的游戏体验极差。 总得来说不值得一个好评。
not that deep
5/10
Ало, какая рокировка под шахом
Идея местами итересная (например где противник играет только конями), но регулярно восстанавливающийся ферзь (который просто возвращается на доску даже не заменяя какую-либо фигуру) просто вывел меня из себя. Судя по отзывам дальше розочарований не меньше
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