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Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition cover art

Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition

Ripstone · 2016-09-09

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationSportsStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen

Releases: Apr 11, 2012 (PlayStation 3), Sep 09, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 09, 2016 (Xbox One), May 29, 2012 (PlayStation Vita), Mar 20, 2014 (Nintendo 3DS), Apr 15, 2014 (PlayStation 4)

Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.

2
playing now
73%
positive of 280 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.39
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Pure Chess is a chess video game by British developer VooFoo Studios.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.0k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 280 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2020-12-10) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.83 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.99$1.002016-09-092026-07-142016-09-09 — best price $9.742017-04-12 — best price $15.992018-07-05 — best price $15.992019-12-19 — best price $7.992020-07-27 — best price $6.392020-08-23 — best price $14.392020-09-17 — best price $11.752020-10-02 — best price $14.392020-10-17 — best price $14.392020-11-01 — best price $14.392020-11-16 — best price $14.392020-12-03 — best price $14.392021-01-12 — best price $11.752021-01-26 — best price $11.752021-02-11 — best price $6.392021-03-04 — best price $15.992021-03-19 — best price $15.992021-04-03 — best price $11.752021-04-30 — best price $11.752021-05-15 — best price $14.392021-05-30 — best price $11.752021-11-17 — best price $15.992022-03-21 — best price $13.432022-04-27 — best price $6.392022-07-07 — best price $15.992022-09-28 — best price $14.372022-12-01 — best price $15.992023-02-02 — best price $15.992023-04-18 — best price $15.992023-06-21 — best price $5.512023-09-29 — best price $13.432024-01-05 — best price $13.432024-02-20 — best price $5.602024-04-08 — best price $4.792024-06-27 — best price $5.282024-09-30 — best price $13.432025-04-18 — best price $6.292026-07-14 — best price $15.83
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1612026-05-31 — 7 pageviews2026-06-03 — 6 pageviews2026-06-06 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 10 pageviews2026-06-15 — 11 pageviews2026-06-18 — 4 pageviews2026-06-21 — 5 pageviews2026-06-24 — 4 pageviews2026-06-27 — 6 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-03 — 12 pageviews2026-07-06 — 8 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 7 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-21 — 10 pageviews2026-07-24 — 10 pageviews2026-07-27 — 7 pageviews2026-07-30 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 8 pageviews2026-08-05 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 9 pageviews2026-08-11 — 4 pageviews2026-08-14 — 3 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-26 — 16 pageviews2026-08-28 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsRemote Play on TVRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian

Player tags

ChessIndieCasualPuzzleSportsStrategyTabletopEducationRealisticBoard Game

Census log

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

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