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Chess, unchained. Play real chess, then break it: power-ups, four-player free-for-alls, a 3D cube board and Chess Royale – a battle royale where kings parachute in. Built for streamers: your Twitch chat can vote, freeze and meddle live.
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SteamAbout unchess
Chess, unchained.
Unchess is the chess game you'd rather watch – and then want to play. Classic chess stays exactly chess. Everything else is fair game.
Four ways to play
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Classic – Correct FIDE rules, bullet to rapid time controls, clean input and no gimmicks.
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MultiChess – Four players, one cross-shaped 14×14 board, clockwise turns. Alliances form, break and end in eliminations. Last king standing wins.
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3D Chess – A 5×5×5 cube of stacked boards with the Unicorn, which moves along the space diagonals. Knights jump between levels.
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Chess Royale – Four kings parachute onto an arena full of obstacles. Grab gold, collect bounties, shop at market stalls and buy reinforcements while the ring closes in.
Power-ups that bend the rules
Switch power-ups on and every player picks three cards before the match. Sixteen cards to unlock, three per match – and each one says in plain words what it does and what it costs.
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Freeze an enemy piece in ice, give one of yours a Knight's Blessing or drop a Barricade into a mating net.
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Hide a Mine, turn a piece to stone with Petrify or throw an attacker back to its own side with Ejected.
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Take a Mystery cube on the board and a random card fires on the spot – unless your chat gets to vote.
Built for streaming
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Connect Twitch in the settings – no bots, no OBS plugins, no extra accounts.
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Chat triggers power-ups with commands like !freeze and votes in polls. Pick up a Mystery cube and chat decides which card it becomes.
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Channel Points rewards for affiliates and partners. A redemption the game cannot play is refunded.
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You are the director: presets from Chill to Chaos, cooldowns, caps and who chat is allowed to target. Opponents always see the rules before the match, and one Panic button shuts chat out.
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A board that reads on a phone at Twitch bitrate, highlight detection, Steam Timeline markers and optional Twitch auto-clips.
Your board, your pieces
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New piece sets come from the Steam Workshop: subscribe and play with them.
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Build your own set and upload it from inside the game.
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Chess sets, piece skins and maps to collect. Cosmetics never change gameplay – no pay-to-win, no loot boxes.
Fair, fast and good-looking
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Quick match, lobbies, friend invites and rematch in one click – from launch to match in under thirty seconds.
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Local hot-seat, LAN and online play over Steam, plus bots to practise against.
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Voice and text chat with the people you play.
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Every match is recorded move by move. Watch it again from your match history, power-ups and chat votes included.
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