Gigachess
Turn-based chess puzzler about defending a board from advancing pawns
Drixxel Soft · Released Dec 15, 2015
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 82% of 99
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Jan 10, 2025
What is Gigachess?
This single-player puzzle game puts you in control of knights, rooks, and bishops. You move pieces and use power-ups, including barricades and explosive traps, to keep enemy pawns from reaching the board’s bottom edge. Endless mode uses randomly generated waves, while Puzzle Attack has fixed stages and Knight’s Dungeon centers on knight’s-tour puzzles.
For you if...
- +you enjoy planning efficient moves around different pieces’ movement rules
Not for you if...
- −you expect traditional chess matches against another player
- −you prefer easy puzzles over demanding logic challenges
What players say
82% of 99 reviews are positive
Players praise the knight puzzles and Endless mode. Some find the play tedious or criticize the music selection.
Screenshots and trailer
Gigachess system requirements
Minimum: 2 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Gigachess?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7
- Processor
- Intel Atom 1.6 GHz (or equivalent)
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 50 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
- Notes
- 100% mouse controllable
Does Gigachess have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Gigachess run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 43
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English, French.
Does Gigachess 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
Tags
- Indie
- Strategy
- Casual
- Tabletop
- Board Game
- Pixel Graphics
- Chess
- Replay Value
- Procedural Generation
- Score Attack
- Arcade
- Puzzle
- Turn-Based
- Difficult
- 2D
- Tower Defense
Recent updates
- Jan 10, 2025 · Gigachess v1.27 Update
- Sep 16, 2020 · Gigachess v1.26 Update | Xbox One gamepad support
- Feb 11, 2020 · Gigachess OST Update | FLAC audio now available
- Dec 19, 2019 · Gigachess v1.25 Update | New achievements + minor fixes
- Oct 29, 2019 · Happy Halloween! + Gigachess v1.24 Update
2 DLC available.
