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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.

0
playing now
74%
positive of 19 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 10:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 91% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$1.79-70%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$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 47 of 64 observed days · $1.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.66$0.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — 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 $4.992026-08-30 — best price $1.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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

Player tags

3DPvPChessRetroMedievalStrategyTabletopBoard GameDark FantasySingleplayer

Census log

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

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