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Idle Chess Story

Joaquin Telleria · ManuJoaco · 2019-06-18

Steam

CasualFree To PlayIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 18, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Creatures from all over the Galaxy make their way to play on the annual idle chess tournament. In Idle Chess Story You take control of a team of chess units with special abilities to win over your opponents and increase your rank.

Idle Chess Story is a free-to-play Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Strategy game released in 2019, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (52% of 58 reviews).

0
playing now
52%
positive of 58 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 29,497 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120192026Week of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
21%
earned "Eyebat Killed"
10.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

IndieCasualStrategyTabletopEarly AccessFree to Play

Census log

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

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