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Combat Chess

Minds Eye Productions · Strategy First · 2021-02-23

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 30, 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players. Beautifully done in rendered 3D graphics, Combat Chess adds stunning animation sequences during gameplay.

Combat Chess is a 2021 Strategy title priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 to 100,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (74% of 19 reviews).

0
playing now
74%
positive of 19 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 3h
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Combat Chess is a video game version of chess developed by Minds Eye Productions and published by Empire Interactive for Windows in October 1997.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 80% of 14,201 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

GOG$1.79-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-06-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 80 of 99 observed days · $1.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220212026Week of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 20:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.66$0.492015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $5.992016-01-08 — best price $1.792016-12-07 — best price $2.392018-05-01 — best price $5.992019-05-30 — best price $1.192020-01-31 — best price $5.992021-01-04 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-10-28 — best price $0.992021-12-23 — best price $0.992022-04-04 — best price $0.992022-09-29 — best price $1.192022-11-23 — best price $1.192023-02-14 — best price $0.592023-05-10 — best price $0.492023-07-31 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $1.192024-01-25 — best price $4.792024-04-25 — best price $0.992024-07-23 — best price $1.192024-09-25 — best price $1.192024-11-26 — best price $1.192025-01-30 — best price $1.992025-04-17 — best price $4.992025-06-20 — best price $4.992025-08-26 — best price $1.792025-10-08 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $1.492026-02-18 — best price $0.992026-04-03 — best price $5.992026-06-09 — best price $1.792026-08-20 — best price $4.992026-09-05 — best price $1.792026-09-15 — best price $5.992026-09-25 — best price $1.792026-10-05 — best price $1.792026-10-15 — best price $1.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9302026-05-29 — 3 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-06 — 0 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 12 pageviews2026-06-18 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 5 pageviews2026-06-26 — 93 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 7 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 6 pageviews2026-07-24 — 7 pageviews2026-07-28 — 2 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 1 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1 pageviews2026-08-17 — 10 pageviews2026-08-21 — 5 pageviews2026-08-25 — 2 pageviews2026-08-29 — 5 pageviews2026-09-02 — 0 pageviews2026-09-06 — 0 pageviews2026-09-10 — 2 pageviews2026-09-14 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 5 pageviews2026-09-22 — 5 pageviews2026-09-26 — 4 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 15 pageviews2026-10-08 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenFamily Sharing

Player tags

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Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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