Chesscape Room

If you like chess but want something with a bit more running and tension than a quiet game of positions, this one is worth a look. Your king is not a piece to protect here, it is the one running for the exit while the opponent tries to cut you off. The mood is quick and a little nervous, in the best way. What hooks you: - The first hours go into learning the board: when to rush, when to block, when a trade makes sense. - Holes and odd board shapes keep breaking familiar patterns, so your usual chess habits will not always carry you. - You can play on one couch in Versus mode or test yourself against people online and in ranked games. - Beyond the campaign there are standalone puzzles and room to build your own boards and campaigns for others. To get it, send your Steam quick invite link. We add you as a friend and send Chesscape Room as a Steam gift straight to your account. Chesscape Room is a chess variant where you race to escape through a door with your king while your opponent hunts you down. Outrun and outsmart opponents trying to trap you across irregular boards, holes, and chokepoints. In Chesscape Room, the King is not just a piece to defend. It is your runner. You win by reaching a door with your King while your opponent tries to cut you off and hunt you down. Instead of memorizing openings, you will be reading space and timing: when to race, when to block, when to trade, and when a single tempo decides everything. Play through handcrafted official campaigns and standalone puzzles built to teach specific ideas and challenge your skill. You will learn how to race versus blockade, how to force an opponent onto a bad route, how to recognize door traps and decoys, and how to keep your King safe while still making progress toward escape. When you want pure competition, play how chess is meant to be played: against humans. Chesscape Room supports local versus for tense couch matches, online multiplayer, and ranked play with ratings so you can track improvement over time and measure how well your escape and blocking instincts hold up. Chesscape Room comes with an editor that lets you generate boards in seconds and craft boards in minutes. Place holes and doors, set pieces and positions, test instantly, then publish single boards as puzzles or bundle them into a full campaign for others to play. If you like making puzzles, it becomes a workshop where you can build clean, readable challenges using the familiar language of chess. Modes - Campaigns: Official and player-made campaigns to play through - Puzzles: Single interesting set ups to solve, one at a time - Versus: Local and online ranked multiplayer - Custom: Generate custom boards for you to play endlessly - Editor: Allows you to generate or craft boards and create your very own campaign others can play online Extra Features - Automatic account creation based on your Steam profile - The option to add your profile to show off your ratings. - Switch between 3D and 2D view anytime - Support to play with keyboard & gamepads - Export and import your board set ups to share with anyone with codes Who will love it? Chess players - Fresh tactics without opening memorization - Training for calculation, geometry, tempo, and king safety - Positions that reward creativity and punishment of slow moves Puzzle fans - Clean, grid-based brain-teasers - Short, satisfying solutions - Difficulty that ramps naturally without requiring chess mastery