Zen Chess: Champion's Moves

Zen Chess: Champion's Moves is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam. It's a very simple Chess based puzzle game. You're presented with a chessboard with a game in play. In a deviation from the other copy+pastes of this game, instead of getting a checkmate in a specific number of moves, you're presented with the final moments of a game played between grandmasters of the game, and you must discern the final move that lead to victory. The problem here is that while titans of the game certainly played interesting games, they also knew when they were beat and resigned. So you can't see a checkmate and must frustratingly guess at the move that leads, not to a checkmate, but just to whatever made the other player feel they weren't going to win. This isn't as much fun as forcing a checkmate. While the chess puzzles are clever and engaging for chess fans, it's not as good as the other games in the series, and the delivery of this mobile app on Steam is lacklustre. Resolution is locked and the chess depiction is a very simple, web browser tier affair that offers little inspiration to PC gamers. Games don't exist in a vacuum. This paid mobile app on Steam doesn't offer anything that free mobile apps don't. If you want to play this kind of game, don't pay for this mobile app cash grab, because you can play these kinds of games free on the web or in free mobile apps.