ChessCraft

In-app purchases
4.4
10.6K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customize chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft is also the world's largest chess variant database.

https://www.chesscraft.ca

Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.

Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.

When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:

https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1

ChessCraft is full and free with no ads, except for the occasional popup which asks you to buy ChessCraft Patron. If you become a patron, you won't see those interruptions anymore. If you're a teacher, student, or you cannot afford ChessCraft Patron, send me an email and I'll send you a special code.

Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!
Updated on
Dec 16, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.5
9.6K reviews
Alex
December 8, 2024
I had Chesscraft a long time ago and I felt like the only problem was that I could add any pictures. But with the new update with pictures and folders, I feel like it's perfect! I personally never liked Adventure Mode, but it's great for building new strategies and challenging yourself to new game modes. I would definitely recommend this app if your trying to build a new and original boardgame or to strategize with boards that could be difficult in a chess game. Also, the bots are great practice
7 people found this review helpful
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Dante
December 30, 2024
I love the unique idea of this game. It gives you a lot of creativity to work with and some custom designs pre-made for pieces. However, uploading images to the garb pieces is not working, and that was very disappointing, considering this game is great. Please fix this and I would happily give it 5 stars.
3 people found this review helpful
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Gi C
January 7, 2025
Best chess game in this decade. I can make my chessboard pieces and the chessboard it's soooo much fun, and it's great to play chess on because there's a redo it makes the piece go the last place it was. The game shows where the chesspiece can move. There is also a two player mode. The campaign is great for new modes. the game adless and free. no matter how good you are at chess. You can choose how good the ai is. I'm new to chess, but this is good. 100/100 get this app!!!!! 10 stars
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What’s new

Upgrades to Android image picker and Unity to try and fix custom image bugs.