Ziggurat 3D Chess

Ziggurat 3D Chess

Michael Lampel · 2017 · Free to Play, Strategy, Indie

PC
Mixed56% · 32
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About Ziggurat 3D Chess

Ziggurat Three Dimensional Chess(TM), is a true three dimensional environment which combine the familiar movements of standard chess and exciting new moves never seen before. The rules of movement are easy to learn so beginners will be playing their first game in minutes. Along with the standard board, which is the lowest level of the Ziggurat and the chess pieces on it, there are seven additional levels and twenty five additional pieces to move. While the standard pieces stay on the lowest level, like ground forces in a real war, the additional pieces have unique moves that can take them to new squares on the same or different levels - up or down! Some stay only on even or odd levels while others move between all of them. The Wizard is the most powerful piece with dramatic reach in many different directions - like a super Queen! Falcons move in jumps between levels, between and through other pieces similar to knights, while Paladins are knights - but able to move in L-steps up and down as well as across! The other new pieces: Guards, Ballistas and Cardinals also have their own unique moves through the Ziggurat game board. Watch the videos to get an idea of how these pieces move. But one thing stays the same in Ziggurat 3D Chess - to win you must checkmate your opponents king!
The ultimate challenge of Ziggurat is greater than chess, because there are more pieces, more squares and more ways to move.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 15, 2022
I knew that when I had to sign a EULA just to play a Chess game, I was in for a bad time. Ziggurat 3D chess is yet another case of a developer thinking they have the "solution" to Chess, that somehow Chess was an imperfect game and thus needed to be changed in order to become popular. At least I assume that's the line of thinking here. Ziggurat changes the rules and gameplay of Chess in two main ways. First, in addition to the standard 8x8, 32 piece chess game, additional grids of decreasing size are added "above" the standard game board. To make these extra boards useful, the developer invented their own pieces as well, with different rules and capabilities, that both permit movement between boards, and of course also fundamentally break the game. Of course it turns out this was a "solution" nobody wanted, and while a few (15) people tried out the game at launch (according to SteamDB), that number dropped sharply to the point there's nobody at all bothering with this game, in fact, I was the first person to launch the game in over a month. So why has this been such a failure, outside, of course, that Chess didn't need fixing? The technical implementation here is quite p…
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 14, 2020
---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☑ Gnome. ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☑ Gnome. ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☑ Gnome. ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Gnome. ☐ Human ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Gnome. ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☑ Gnome. ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Gnome. ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☑ Gnome. ☐ The game itself i…
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 11, 2023
[h1] How do you go Wrong with 3d Chess?[/h1] No really, how? I get this is like a useless review, and that this game is going to only fit a small niche of players, but let's be real here for a moment; The issue with this game is the hardware. The game doesn't require you to use a VR Set but I don't know how you're supposed to move any piece or do anything without one. The angles are not easy to see, they are not easy to understand, depth perception a ♥♥♥♥♥, then the controls on just keyboard don't feel smooth. As if the controls were themselves made out of the same god-forsaken material the floor is made out of, clunky, jagged, uneven. Yet a nice little Windows 98 window popped up and in your face to show you what moves you can do. Not that the moves can be understood, as the colour coordination does not help with understanding depth or movement or anything really. I'd say just buy a real chess thing, but who has friends or money in this capitalist hellscape? [h1]Play Hnefatafl [/h1]
2 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 4, 2025
Игра "Ziggurat 3D Chess" – это глоток свежего воздуха для любителей шахмат. Переход в трехмерное пространство не просто красивый ход, он значительно усложняет тактику и стратегию. Нужно учитывать не только горизонтальные и вертикальные перемещения, но и потенциальные угрозы, скрытые на разных уровнях пирамиды. Сначала кажется сложным, но интуитивно понятный интерфейс и плавное вращение камеры позволяют быстро освоиться. Возможность играть как против AI с настраиваемой сложностью, так и с другими игроками онлайн, делает игру очень реиграбельной. Понравилась система рангов и таблица лидеров, которые стимулируют к совершенствованию навыков. Единственный незначительный минус – иногда хотелось бы более подробного обучения для тех, кто только начинает знакомиться с 3D шахматами. В остальном - отлично реализованная концепция. Рекомендую всем, кто ищет новые вызовы в классической игре!
Recommended Jul 27, 2025
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Not recommended Aug 28, 2019
this game 2easy

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