Help me out here?
So sometimes I just wanna play chess on my steam deck. I’m in my 50s, I got a steam deck about a year ago, and I am absolutely loving what it offers me. Before this I hadn’t done gaming since PS1. I recently finished bioshock, I’m currently about a third of the way into cyberpunk. I’m also playing prey. I pick games to suit my mood. And sometimes my mood is to just wanna play chess against a computer. Can anyone recommend a game?
The steam library has a whole lot of chess games, but they mostly seem to be chess plus scary monster, chess plus tits, chess plus nonsense. I just wanna play chess! Ideally on a 3d board, that’s all I ask. No gimmicks, no boobs, just chess that runs locally on my steam deck.
I’ve googled this and seen people on reddit etc saying you’ve got to play online versions in the browser - FFS!
Can someone recommend me a decent chess game that is steam deck compatible? I’ve already bought a couple of chess games that weren’t verified and haven’t worked out.
Sorry for the rant, I’m just frustrated. Chess is such an ancient and fundamental game I’d have thought this would be easy, but here I am asking for your help.
I’ll be grateful for any ideas.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/
Sounds exactly what you’re looking for.
Jokes aside, what about free chess on steam? Seems reasonably polished to me, is marked playable on deck and its free. What exactly have you had issues with other chess games with? Controls?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2672290/Free_Chess/
Or maybe The Chess: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3158990/The_Chess/