
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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某一关关卡描述的通关条件是"吃掉皇后", 那么吃掉升变产生的皇后应当也满足过关条件 本来这个只是个无伤大雅的问题, 最多就是多想一会怎么过关, 而对于开发者而言可能只需要修改一下文本描述 ---- 至少整体上这个游戏是有优秀的 但是我注意到页面上有客服和开发商界面, 这个时候我发现这些居然都不再维护了, 只靠 discord 服务器频道来和玩家沟通的话, 总感觉不是很靠谱
I like chess and am pretty good (nothing very good) and bought on a sale. I'm enjoying the campaign. I think if you're a chess enthusiast then you'll like this too. I tried the demo first and if that's an option I would suggest doing that before buying -- that's sufficient to see if u like it. Campaign alternates between puzzles and playing computer players. Some puzzles are hard and computer players have different dark chess skills like hidden parts of the board, strange squares, rules, pieces or challenges to complete. It's a challenge and only possible to win as the computer is a bit dumb so far. But even then it's hard to win because of the computer players dark skills. There is a little bit of narrative in the campaign also. Chess players give it a try!
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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.
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[h1][b]当战争迷雾布满了棋盘[/b][/h1] 《后翼弃兵:迷雾棋局》是一款制作精良的国际象棋游戏,本作最大的特点是围绕迷雾二字创造了独特的迷雾玩法,俗话说知己知彼百战不殆,当敌方的布局称为迷时,玩家每一步行棋都必须再三思考。 本作打造了一个拥有故事的战役模式,玩家将在其中横跨多个大陆,遇见古今中外的众多领袖,用国际象棋的方式与之交手,感受棋盘策略的魅力。 其中最核心的玩法自然就是迷雾棋局了,这个玩法中玩家初始只能看到自己一方的布局,当敌我棋子出现在对方棋子的附近,或是直接威胁到对方棋子时,系统才会亮起这些棋子。 基于这个机制,开局阶段就不能太过随意了,否则会直接损失有效战力,玩家的每一次出手都像是试探,为了平衡,敌人的AI也不会一开始就特别强,因此谨慎行棋还是能够战胜的。 玩家能够在右侧的面板处看到敌方的棋子阵容,这是本作的另一亮点,其为不同的领袖设计了不同的阵容,比如成吉思汗就拥有多达10个骑士。 游戏的另一大玩法是谜题棋局,这种棋局类似于我们常见到的残局,其限定了步数,玩家需要用有限的步数赢下对局,非常考验整体规划能力。 体验下来值得改进的一点是,由于步数机制,玩家失误了后会直接触发gameover界面,然后要等待片刻才能重新开始,经常是下棋2-3秒,等待7-8秒,能优化一下快速重试就好了。 此外,本作的周边玩法也非常丰富,玩家可以在对局中获取头像、边框、旗帜、卡片等内容,用以个性化自己的界面。 不会国际象棋的话,游戏还做了一个简洁明了的教程指南。 玩法方面,除了战役模式,本作还支持单人、PVP、自定义、快速等游戏模式。 整体来说,本作表现非常不错,既有独特的迷雾棋局,又有谜题、多人等玩法,可玩性极高,推荐喜欢下棋的玩家入手。 [quote]关注「 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42276832//]鸿源鉴游组」 [/url] [/quote] [u][b] 会当逢佳游,始可见鸿源。 [/b][/u]
辣鸡游戏,单机游戏连个最基本的悔棋都没有吗?每次失败都要从头开始,唐完了。这做游戏的是真不玩游戏呀
Playing chess with incomplete information is like pooping with an incomplete colon. Which is to say, it's the board game equivalent of a colostomy bag.
很差,自以为有创意,实则平衡性一坨
The worst thing about this game is the god awful voice acting. The Dark Chess variant is quite fun, and I find the campaigns and customizable games entertaining.
The stuff they added to Chess (Dark Chess) isn't very good.
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