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74% positive of 3,644 · Mostly Positive · Live from Steam
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The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
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Review score: 74% on 2026-11-03 → 74% today (3,644 reviews)
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In the most fantabulous coincidence ever, we have just finished releasing the Russian translation of Simply Chess... the translation was finished up by Steam user " ⇜ǤȐƠƲƝƉHƠƓ⇝" and it is February 2nd in Russia right now!! :D (pro-wiki-tips for the unacquainte…
Pushed an update to Windows yesterday (same fixes will go out to Mac & Linux on the next rebuild). The main newness is that there is now a Finnish (Suomi) translation!! Big thanks to vsi65 for the translation!! Updates since the last announcement: Fixed the di…
This is a big announcement with a lot to cover! Updates! Since the last announcement, here are updates we've made to Simply Chess: Mac: fixed crashing that would happen in various versions of OS X on various machines. It was due to several versions of Mono cra…
Howdy! I haven't announced the updates in a while, I've just been pushing them quietly. Time to fix that so that you have a better idea of what to expect :) Bugfix: The buttons for the second-player in a Lobby had regressed to not be mouse-clickable anymore (h…
We've given a round of polish to the game, and pushed that update to Windows, Mac, and Linux. Some fixes: Fixed some really bad edge-cases that were caused by playing an online async game, then leaving it, then finishing a local game in the same run of the pro…
It's been a month since our last big release, so we've done a batch of bug-fixes and other improvements! We're also knocking down the cost of Premium to $3.99 for a short time (I haven't decided how long). Grab it now! :) UPDATE 20151027: These changes are now…
Hey there, Simply Chess Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game: Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we used for Simply Chess and have been growing over the years for our …
Hey there, Simply Chess Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game: Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we used for Simply Chess and have been growing over the years for our …
If you see any remaining issues, please report them to me. Thanks for playing!! :D
If you see any remaining issues, please report them to me. Thanks for playing!! :D
Upgrading some stuff & ran into some issues... fixing it now!! Online play will probably be down for half an hour or so. Sorry! ^_^;
Upgrading some stuff & ran into some issues... fixing it now!! Online play will probably be down for half an hour or so. Sorry! ^_^;
In the most fantabulous coincidence ever, we have just finished releasing the Russian translation of Simply Chess... the translation was finished up by Steam user " ⇜ǤȐƠƲƝƉHƠƓ⇝" and it is February 2nd in Russia right now!! :D (pro-wiki-tips for the unacquainte…
Pushed an update to Windows yesterday (same fixes will go out to Mac & Linux on the next rebuild). The main newness is that there is now a Finnish (Suomi) translation!! Big thanks to vsi65 for the translation!! Updates since the last announcement: Fixed the di…
Some people have been rep-ing chess for (thousands of) years! ...Let's show the world that we've known Chess was cool, long before any of this newfangled stuff!
Some people have been rep-ing chess for (thousands of) years! ...Let's show the world that we've known Chess was cool, long before any of this newfangled stuff!
This is a big announcement with a lot to cover! Updates! Since the last announcement, here are updates we've made to Simply Chess: Mac: fixed crashing that would happen in various versions of OS X on various machines. It was due to several versions of Mono cra…
Howdy! I haven't announced the updates in a while, I've just been pushing them quietly. Time to fix that so that you have a better idea of what to expect :) Bugfix: The buttons for the second-player in a Lobby had regressed to not be mouse-clickable anymore (h…
We've given a round of polish to the game, and pushed that update to Windows, Mac, and Linux. Some fixes: Fixed some really bad edge-cases that were caused by playing an online async game, then leaving it, then finishing a local game in the same run of the pro…
It's been a month since our last big release, so we've done a batch of bug-fixes and other improvements! We're also knocking down the cost of Premium to $3.99 for a short time (I haven't decided how long). Grab it now! :) UPDATE 20151027: These changes are now…