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Mad Chess

Also known as Mad Chess, mad chess, mad-chess

Mad Chess is a turn-based strategy game that vastly expands on the classic game of chess. Explore a colorful fantasy world, recruit up to 20 unique factions, fight-off an alien invasion in a single-player story mode or battle your friends online!

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Last update

20 May 2026

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AnnouncementPublished 08 May 2026

v0.9Mad Chess Beta 0.9 - Adventure optional objectives + Customization

General Lots of new options toggles: move method, pre-moves, objective display, draw by claim, unit highlight color Fifteen new steam achievements (for now a total of 40) (all of them still connected to adventure/versus…

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September 2025
Mad Chess Beta 0.86 - Adventure Endgame + Replay sceneAdventure Added levels 41 to 50 to conclude Madeline and Valtasar's stories (hardest levels in the game, including lots of new units and a real final boss), Some of these levels also unlock up to 6 additional reserve un…Announcementv0.861 changeMaps25 Sept 2025
October 2024
Mad Chess Beta 0.85 - Carbuncles, Kobolds & Mandrakes factions -General Three new factions enter the madness ! Burrow underground with the Kobolds and emerge to inflict status effects on the enemies, or play with the sun/moon cycle of the Mandrakes to control the center of the board…Announcementv0.8519 changesGameplayBalance08 Oct 2024
November 2023
1 big feature added in this patch (for beta testers): New Big Feature Chaos random faction: Unlock the chaos option in the shop as an alternate random faction: (a) each unit is randomized from any of the 17 factions, (b…v0.8413 changesCompatibilityGameplayPatch notes30 Nov 2023
October 2023
3 big features are added in this patch (for beta testers): New Big Features Goblins are added to the game as the 17th faction ! (Assassins with special abilities against the enemy king) Arcade mode added to Adventure (u…v0.838 changesFixCompatibilityPatch notes20 Oct 2023
August 2023
Development for the game has been steady and shared primarily on Discord, but now that Mad Chess is getting closer to a real final product, all the next updates will be shared here as well. General upgrades Workshop: (i…v0.826 changesFixWorkshopPatch notes05 Aug 2023
June 2022
Dev Play + Q&A Mad Chess is a massive Expansion Pack to classic chess that adds new factions to the game such as dragons, vampires & angels for a grand total of 13 armies based on RPG-class archetypes. Mad Chess is a ga…3 changesGameplayStore13 Jun 2022

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