Just Chess
Pupugames · 2025 · Chess, 3D, Realistic, Board Game, PvP
PC
8 user reviews100% · 8
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About Just Chess
Enjoy a deep chess experience – solo or online – with Just Chess!Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned player, Just Chess has everything you need. Sharpen your skills against a smart AI in a modern 3D environment, test your tactical vision with over four million chess puzzles, or challenge the world with comprehensive Lichess integration.Key Features:When playing against the computer, the following tools are available.
- Built-in Chess Engine – Play offline instantly using the game's internal chess engine, no setup required.
- UCI Engine Support – Take your game to the next level by connecting any external chess engine that supports the UCI protocol, such as Stockfish. Play against opponents at – and even beyond – grandmaster strength.
- Advanced UCI Profile Manager – Take full control of your imported engines. Create, rename, and save multiple custom profiles for any external engine. Adjust core settings like Hash (RAM), Threads (CPU), and Skill Level seamlessly from the UI, or dive into engine-specific advanced parameters for the ultimate tailored experience.
- Engine vs Engine (EvE) – Curious to see which engine is stronger? Select two of your custom UCI engine profiles and watch them battle it out. Use the quick-adjust sliders in the lobby to independently scale the hardware limits and strength of both engines on the fly before the match begins.
- Puzzle Arena – Test your skills and improve your tactical awareness with a massive database of over four million puzzles from Lichess. Try different modes like the fast-paced Puzzle Blitz and the endurance-testing Puzzle Run.
- Lichess Integration – Log in to your Lichess account directly from the game!
- Challenge friends or millions of other players online.
- Play against Lichess's own Stockfish AI at various difficulty levels.
- Continue your ongoing correspondence or real-time games.
- All online games are seamlessly synchronized with your Lichess account.
- Spectate Live Tournaments – Follow top-level chess events in real-time with the new Lichess Broadcasts integration. Watch grandmaster games unfold live, directly within the game's immersive 3D environment.
- The hint function calculates and color-codes the three best move options on the board, and you can preview their possible continuations directly on the board.
- The move analysis calculates color-coded evaluations and scores for your selected piece, and if a variation is available, you can preview it directly on the board.
- The threat analysis displays arrows and evaluations on the board representing the opponent’s threats.
- 3D Chessboard – With an adjustable viewing angle.
- Flip & Reset View – Use F to switch the view from one side to the other, or hold it down to rotate the camera in 90-degree increments, and R to reset it to your playing side.
- Chess Clocks & Time Controls – Play timed games with popular formats like Bullet (1+0), Blitz (5+3), Rapid (10+5), and Classical (30+0, 90/40). Time controls under 10 minutes are supported with both the built-in and UCI chess engines. Untimed mode is also available.
- 2D and 3D Chess Clocks – Switch between practical 2D and immersive 3D clock views using the C key. 3D clocks show remaining time as a circular diagram.
- Adjustable Move Speed – Customize how fast the built-in or UCI chess engine plays its moves for a more relaxed or time-pressured experience. Combine with difficulty settings for a personalized challenge.
- Easy to Play – Simple controls and an intuitive interface.
- Adaptive AI Strength – Both the built-in and UCI chess engines can automatically adjust their strength based on your wins and losses, ensuring a balanced challenge.
- PGN Export and Analysis – The game allows you to copy the chess game in PGN format to the clipboard and analyze it on online chess analysis websites. Online analysis may require an account with the analysis service provider.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise Just Chess for its elegant minimalist design that avoids overwhelming options while delivering a comprehensive feature set including built-in engines, over 4 million puzzles, and Lichess integration at a reasonable price. The main complaints center on requiring online login for puzzle access despite offline claims, and requests for more advanced features like customizable UCI engine settings, engine profiles, and a career mode system.
By far the best on steam. By. Far. Built in engine vs computer. Puzzle Arena (over 4 Million puzzles with difficulties) Engine vs Engine (check my guide for how to in words from creator) to watch toughest A.I.'s battle it out. Player vs Player of course -And my personal fav feature- Lichess Integration! It is amazing just HOW MUCH this Chess Application offers for the price. I have already recommended it to the few chess friends i have. Just Chess. is so much more than Just Chess. It is a full toolkit of chess and it is easily in my top 15 purchases on steam.2 found this helpful
Fantastic start with the features and game so far ! Here's my list of recommendations. 1- Having the UCI engine settings available will be amazing ! Having custom presets (maybe) for engines like rodent IV with it's personalities would be more that great ! 2- Engine profiles. Every engine that we add can be picked from a list with maybe a custom UCI profile as well. 3-A custom career mode (where you earn points (after elo) which you can use to challenge stronger pre-set engines/or same engine with different strength. (you set the amount of uci engines in the career and number of games/tournaments) 4-Puzzles should NOT be tied to any online account. You shouldn't have to login to anything to access them. Even tho you claim they work "offline" they don't as I need to login. You can download the lichess csv puzzle archive (it's way more than 4 mil now) and use that in the custom interface you have, make it in a separate menu, not lichess) look at github for "better tactics" chess puzzles for extra functionality (advanced) 5-Puzzle theme "Single/multiple/random Hidden selection" Have a hidden selection system for themes if hidden is activated it auto selects one theme. If multiple…1 found this helpful
simplicity1 found this helpful
Awesome chess on pc with great features.1 found this helpful
Good game and doesnt cost the earth1 found this helpful
It's just chess. Nobody lied.
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