Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

Chess, but everyone has a gun.

Chess Pit is a team shooter on a playable chessboard the size of an arena. The pieces are real, they're huge, and they belong to whichever team earns the right to move them.

Kills buy moves

Every elimination fills your move meter. A full meter is a move you can spend on any piece your team owns. Falling behind? Comeback and uneven-team bonuses keep the game close.

No turns. Ever.

Moves happen in real time. Each piece has its own cooldown, so both teams move at once, all match long. Walk up to a piece, take control, and send it across the board. When it lands it stomps the square, and anyone standing there is flattened.

The board fights with you

Every piece powers up the squares it controls for its own team:

• Pawns: move speed

• Knights: armor

• Bishops: damage

• Rooks: health regen

• Queens: heavy damage

Where you choose to fight matters as much as how well you aim.

Pick a class, own a piece

• Vanguard: pistol, pawn specialist

• Cavalier: shotgun, knight specialist

• Castellan: rifle, rook specialist

• Sovereign: the King Breaker, queen specialist

Each class moves its favored piece on a shorter cooldown.

Plan as a team

Hold Tab to open the team planning board. Sketch moves, endorse or veto a teammate's idea, and coordinate a push without stopping to type.

Level up mid-match

Spend what you earn on upgrades for yourself, your grenades, and your bots. Hosts can tune nearly everything: damage, health, cooldowns, buff strength, upgrade costs, and weapon stats, with saved presets.

Features

• Online team PvP

• Bots join every match. The host sets how many, from none to a full army

• Real-time Chess: capture the enemy king to win

• Four classes with their own weapons and favored pieces

• Full host match settings with saved presets

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