Catch wild chess pieces by solving checkmate puzzles
A chess RPG. Walk across the continent of Casteria, where every wild chess piece you meet sets you a checkmate puzzle. Solve it and the piece joins your team. Level your team up, beat the six Chess Clubs, and win the World Championship.
Single-player · Windows on Steam · Ten languages
A wild Queen blocks the road.Deep Sapphire, one of the 272. Solve this and the piece joins you.White to move. Mate in one.
Checkmate.
In the game, this piece would now join your team. Every one of the 272 is caught this way.
the trailer
The Catch: how catching a piece works
The second trailer, The World, shows the nine towns, the lessons, the boards and the six Sigils.
the free demo
The first two towns, free
The demo is the first two towns of the full game: Openfield, where you learn the basics, and Frostford, where you beat your first Chess Club and win your first Sigil, one of the six badges you need to enter the World Championship. The demo ends at the gate of the third town.
- 2of the 9 towns
- 4piece families to catch
- 1of the 6 Sigils
- 60of the 202 chess lessons
Your demo save carries straight into the full game: every piece, board and lesson.
What’s not in the demo: the other seven towns, the Chessino (the in-game casino), and the three 3D areas.
extras
Four extras on the title screen
The Extras tab on the title screen holds a chess course for beginners, a companion book, the soundtrack with the art beside it, and every puzzle in the game to practise on.
never played?
How to Play Chess
The whole game from nothing: the board, every piece, castling, en passant, promotion and what each piece is worth. Five chapters and eighteen steps on a live board, and a wrong move just slides back.
in the demo
companion
The Field Guide
The Complete Casteria Companion, readable in game: twenty-one chapters covering every system, a piece compendium, a board compendium, everyone you can talk to, and a walkthrough of the road and the side stories.
in the demo: a seven-chapter edition
76 tracks
Gallery & Music
The whole soundtrack, with the art of Casteria drifting past while it plays. Stop the slideshow and browse the art yourself; the music keeps going.
full game only
5,890 puzzles
Puzzle Explorer
Every mate in the game, sorted by depth and by the name of the pattern, so you can play every example of one shape back to back. At your own pace or against the clock. Practice only; it never touches your save.
in the demo: 50 of the 5,890
the map
The map of Casteria
Nine towns, six Chess Clubs, a casino burning out at sea, and one gate at the top that only opens when you hold all six Sigils.Click any town to read about it.
Nine towns stand between you and that gate.
