Chesscape Room

Chesscape Room is a chess variant where you race to escape through a door with your King while your opponent tries to trap and hunt you. You read the board’s space and timing to choose when to race, block, trade or change routes. Irregular boards, holes and chokepoints shape each pursuit, and a single tempo can decide the outcome.

Campaigns and puzzles

Play handcrafted official campaigns and standalone puzzles, or try campaigns and puzzles made by other players. These challenges teach and test ideas such as racing versus blockading, forcing an opponent onto a poor route, spotting door traps and decoys, and advancing your King while keeping it safe.

Game modes

• Campaigns: Play through official or player-made campaigns.
• Puzzles: Solve individual setups one at a time.
• Versus: Play local matches or online ranked multiplayer.
• Custom: Generate custom boards to play repeatedly.
• Editor: Generate boards quickly or craft them by placing holes, doors, pieces and positions. Test boards instantly, then publish them as puzzles or bundle them into campaigns for others to play online.

Multiplayer

Play against other people in local versus matches or online multiplayer. Ranked play uses ratings that let you track your improvement and see how well your escape and blocking instincts hold up.

Board creation

The editor lets you create chess-based challenges, from individual puzzles to full campaigns. You can also export and import board setups using codes to share them with others.

Profiles and views

The game can create an account based on your Steam profile, and you can choose to add your profile to display your ratings. Switch between 2D and 3D views at any time.