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• Dread Chess ✣

• NullTale · • NullTale Scape · 2025-09-07

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Sep 07, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...

• Dread Chess ✣ is a 2025 Adventure, Casual, Indie, Strategy game priced at free-to-play, with a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (79% of 103 reviews).

79%
positive of 103 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

Play with a God of Madness to their game to know your destiny and discover the true purpose of chess pieces.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520252026Week of 2025-09-07: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-07: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-14: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-21: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-05: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-09: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

13
achievements tracked
38.6%
earned "💀 This is The End? "
19%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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