Chess Brain
Chess-themed pathfinding puzzles built around synchronized movement and timing
Caio Flavio · Released Sep 8, 2020
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 89% of 171
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 6 years ago
- Sep 10, 2020
What is Chess Brain?
A single-player puzzle game with 30 chessboard challenges. You draw the king's route to a destination square while avoiding opposing pieces, with all pieces moving once per second.
For you if...
- +you enjoy planning several moves ahead before testing a solution
- +you prefer puzzles that require little prior chess knowledge
Not for you if...
- −you want traditional chess matches rather than pathfinding puzzles
What players say
89% of 171 reviews are positive
Players praise the approachable puzzles and gradual difficulty curve. The most common complaint is the short length. Some also criticize the lack of instructions or report progress not saving correctly.
Screenshots and trailer
Chess Brain system requirements
Minimum: DirectX 9 GPU, 2 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Chess Brain?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
- Processor
- 2 Ghz Dual Core
- Graphics
- Graphics card supporting DirectX 9.0c
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
Does Chess Brain have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Chess Brain run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 30
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Does Chess Brain use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam