
Chess Royal
A simple yet satisfying game of chess that anyone can play - and learn from.
If Snap Chess left you wanting something minimalist and relaxing, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Enjoy a pure, distraction-free chess experience with Just Chess! Includes a built-in engine, UCI support and engine profiles, and a Puzzle Arena with 4M+ puzzles. Lichess integration lets you challenge players, play Chess960, and watch live games and broadcasts.
Relaxing
Solve puzzles with a chess board that sits in the corner of your screen. Challenge yourself to difficult puzzles, unlock streaks, and customize your board. Idle away and your chess buddy will always be there to help you practice.
Minimalist, Relaxing
Challenge the AI at several difficulty levels, solve 777 puzzles, set up custom positions, or invite a Steam friend for a relaxed online match with no time limit. Undo a move, save a game, pick a board theme, and play the oldest strategy game there is, your way.
Minimalist, Relaxing
Solve more than 3.000.000 chess puzzles and fight an AI which is challenging for beginners and pros. Unlock different startign positions to give your chess game a new twist. All that in the style of famous 90s JRPGs.
Retro
Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!
Retro
A simple yet satisfying game of chess that anyone can play - and learn from. Challenge a powerful chess AI, play against your friends, and try to get through a massive tower of puzzles!
Minimalist, Relaxing
A unique chess trip with exciting instant duels awaits you - test your mettle on the chessboard. Checkmate your opponent with only a few moves and solve challenging chess puzzles in amazing 3D worlds.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
Minimalist, Relaxing
Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.
Minimalist, Relaxing
chess...expect no more,no less.
Minimalist, Retro
Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.
Relaxing
Play in the dark or under open skies. Sharp Chess is a clean, distraction-free chess experience — Stockfish AI, nature and dark themes. At home or on the go with Steam Deck.
Minimalist, Relaxing

A simple yet satisfying game of chess that anyone can play - and learn from.

Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Play in the dark or under open skies. Sharp Chess is a clean, distraction-free chess experience — Stockfish AI, nature and dark themes.

A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does

Zen Chess: Mate in Two is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-two problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Zen Chess: Mate in Four is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-four problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

A medieval world of strategy and tactics await you to engage in epic battles of wits as you master the moves and the strategies in a conquest to…

Nowadays everyone is a self-proclaimed chess player! Quite different from the soviet kids back in the old days.

In Zen Chess: Blindfold Masters you will put your memory and chess skills to the test by solving puzzles without seeing the pieces.

A chess game featuring an adaptive AI opponent that scales to your skill level.

Attention, comrade! Registrations are open once again! The players submitted to my previous training showed significant improvement in chess skills…

Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces!

Classic chess played by two rival cat clans, with full rules, move hints, a scalable bot, online and local matches, and a challenge campaign.

Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide.

Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their…

The ChessThemed Chess offers a relaxing, minimalist chess experience with multiple boards, piece sets, AI opponents, and multiplayer.

Play relaxed matches against the AI or a friend, with puzzles and custom boards to keep every session fresh.

Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces!

Nowadays everyone is a self-proclaimed chess player! Quite different from the soviet kids back in the old days.

Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Play the classic board game in hand-crafted sets, against a ten-level AI, other players or VR.

Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better!

Commanders, assemble your armies! CHECK vs. MATE calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the…

A unique chess trip with exciting instant duels awaits you - test your mettle on the chessboard.

Your own offline chess club. Meet 300+ fictional rivals, compete in tournaments, learn with Susu the Panda, and relive famous games through…

Solve puzzles with a chess board that sits in the corner of your screen.

Classic chess played by two rival cat clans, with full rules, move hints, a scalable bot, online and local matches, and a challenge campaign.

A hundred chess games on Steam. One of them gives you 40 AI opponents up to 2550 Elo, live open lobbies, async play, a league mode, a mini board…

Play in the dark or under open skies. Sharp Chess is a clean, distraction-free chess experience — Stockfish AI, nature and dark themes.

A chess game featuring an adaptive AI opponent that scales to your skill level.

Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide.

A Wild West chess adventure where every duel is settled on the board.

The ChessThemed Chess offers a relaxing, minimalist chess experience with multiple boards, piece sets, AI opponents, and multiplayer.

Enjoy a pure, distraction-free chess experience with Just Chess!

A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does

Play relaxed matches against the AI or a friend, with puzzles and custom boards to keep every session fresh.