Lostria
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– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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Lucky me gets to write the first review for Lostria.. I think? I feel like this is not the full, proper game, but a beta test, but this is unclear from the store page exactly what you’re getting into. For that reason, in an exception to my general rule (in fact for the first time in over 5,000 Steam reviews), I’ll invite the developer to correct me if I’m wrong about my observations and opinions about this game, because it does appear to be completely free, which earns developers a large amount of goodwill.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Super Club Soccer
Game is still in the thick of development, but a new patch was just released that allows players to form teams and compete in friendly matches which adds a huge amount of depth that was missing. Soon seasons will be added too.
When you read the negative reviews, keep in mind that this game is not meant to be played with bots. It really shines when you can get a team together and start building chemistry, and play against actual people.
If you haven’t played yet or had a bad experience, be sure to find yourself a team and hop on the discord.
– Real player with 581.3 hrs in game
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For people that like the tactical side of Football this is a great game to get into. The aim of the game is to play as a Defender, Midfielder or Forward and you control a player in a 11 a side game with the rest of your team being controlled by other players.
A 90 minute game lasts about 60 minutes and consists of turns where you control your player by moving, passing, defending and attacking.
When you receive the ball you have a option menu come up that allows you to run with ball or try a low pass or a high pass to a team mate.
– Real player with 149.5 hrs in game
Tactical Monsters - Strategy Edition
Tactical Monsters Strategy Edition is a special version of Tactical Monsters.
Based on the connect6 rules for monsters deployment on the field and fight turns order, brings a fresh new playstyle concept which comes very close to a game of chess with the addition of strategic passive skills.
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3 CUSHION MASTERS
I use to play a bit of 3 cushion in irl. The game is okay. Able to do reverse inside shots, tickys, sometimes i feel like the physics are are not accurate. Most the time its pretty good.
Not happy that basic chalk isn’t free or basic cue needs repair or that cue repair is even a thing.
But I guess im glad there is a game at least to play for 3 cushion.
– Real player with 9.2 hrs in game
love it
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
CLAN WARS
Lead your clan to victory! Take out the rival clan’s king and win the battle.
Think before you slay and strategize your every move on the chessboard.
There are four “Elements of Power”. Each element has its unique Kung Fu fighting style. Choose the right element and get ready to fight.
Engage and destroy in one on one combat only if you sure you can win.
CLAN WARS game is composed from a Chessboard and a one on one combat fighting arenas. On the Chessboard there are 14 warriors for each clan, you must defeat the opponent warriors, but only when you kill the opponent WARRIOR KING the game ends and you win. You have one and a half minutes to make your move. If you do not make a move on time, the turn move to your opponent. When you engage a fighting battle with an opponent warrior, the two warriors will be teleported to a fighting arena. Only the winner is teleported back to the chessboard.
Chessality
Chessality is bringing “over-the-board” (OTB) chess to you!… and much, much more!
One of the most classic strategic board games can finally be properly played, enjoyed, and studied in VR!
Enjoy realistic/cartoonish environments on fun, exciting, and heart-pumping single and team battles!
Feel the intensity of OTB competitive play by joining official Chessality tournaments placing you in a competitive VR environment dedicated to tournaments.
Have fun with your friends on team battles for fun and for serious climbing of the ranks!
This game is aimed at both casual players, enthusiasts, dedicated chess players, and modders who enjoy customizing their game’s visuals.
Features Complete
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Immerse in over-the-board chess games using ‘focus’ environments with nice simple playlists or just silent, or enjoy casual games on calm/stressful aesthetically realistic/cartoonish environments! There is a total of 5 maps available, and more to come!
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Basic playlist offering option to load songs from Youtube or your local mp3s.
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Lichess integration: Don’t feel like walking away from your already amazing ranking in lichess? No worries. We have almost full integration. Yes. Join all lichess tournaments, different chess variations (not all as of yet), view/add/challenge your friends, play casual and competitive. Yes, you can play with non-Chessality users across all platforms. Show your trophies and lichess' donator flags. It also supports multiple lichess accounts for households with multiple lichess players (disabled multi-user on release*).
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Multiple chessmen skins and chessboard skins: in addition to the ability to load your own custom skins/3D models for your chessmen/chessboard.
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Play both Chessality’s and lichess' puzzles to improve your skills based on your puzzle ratings on a variety of tactical themes!
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Classic tutorial of the basics of how to play the game
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Learn openings: learn intuitively with a selective level of deepness. Don’t just learn the best moves, but Chessality shows you how to play any of the openings we have available both for black and for white, displaying both the best moves for each side as well as classic mistakes from your opponent and how to punish the mistakes. This is aimed at all skill levels, from beginners to at least International Masters. [partial DLC]
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Blindfold chess: Ever wanted to learn blindfold chess but never tried, or was it too overwhelming the first time? Chessality has different levels of blindfold (all levels include a voice announcing the move):
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Level 1: All chessmen are made of transparent glass of the same color tone
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Level 2: All chessmen and chessboard are made of glass
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Level 3: No pieces, just chessboard and a 2D table showing all the historical moves of the game in notation form (i.e., e2e4)
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Level 4: No pieces, just chessboard and a 2D table showing the last 3 moves of the game
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Level 5: No pieces, just chessboard and a table showing the last move of the game
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Level 6: No pieces, just chessboard.
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WIP Features planned for release
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Simple and intuitive menu with the ability to display advanced settings
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Game modes: in addition to most of lichess' game modes, we also including Poisoned Pawn and Dice Chess game modes
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Ability to interact in VR with other VR user(s) when playing with Chessality users
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Music integration from Spotify
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Voice command to move the pieces and toggling some in-game options. This is perfect for full blindness training. [DLC]
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Learn end games
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Learning openings: selective test for testing your skills on one or several openings and variations with selective deepness. [partial DLC]
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Study chess by connecting to a local instance of Chessbase 16 and Fritz, with features that may assist chess schools or private tutors. [DLC]
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Study using lichess' study mode
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Bringing modern games' ranking system to chess: you have your own Chessality MMR, in addition to lichess'. Chessality’s ranking system includes tiers (Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond/Grandmaster), and divisions reset every season.
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Team matches: create teams and have 3v3 and 5v5 team matches.
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Create your own single/team tourney with casual settings or hardcore selective settings like: “to end a turn, you must hit your clock,” “use the same hand used to move a piece to hit the clock,” “knocking your king down accidentally is the same as resigning,” etc. Great for casual tournaments, club tournaments, or others. You may also fill gaps with AIs using Stockfish 13 at different levels. Tournament settings also include limiting the tournament for Chessality users only, in case you want a VR-only tournament.
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Language support (in addition to the original US English): Norwegian, Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), and Polish. Chessality requires community support for further language support.
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Streaming features and shortcuts to make the lives of streamers easier.
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Integration with another 2D chess group for further expanding chess cross-play.
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Steamworks integration for custom environments and other community content.
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More chessmen skins, chessboard skins, and environments
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Voice descriptions of events and tutorials
DLC information
Yes, there are some DLCs planned. However, all chessmen/chessboard skins will also be complete freely available to be downloaded from our website and can be “side-loaded” using the available feature of loading custom models to Chessality. These won’t be shown to your opponent (if they are using VR) but are fully available to you.
Feature requests
Any cool ideas or integration requests? Tell us! We are very open to ideas!
Will a non-VR version be available?
As of right now, there is no plan. Although there is code implemented for debugging without using a VR headset, one of this project’s goals is to bring emphasis to OTB chess and add a meaningful and replayable VR game to your library. We don’t want to downplay the VR in this game by offering a non-VR option. Furthermore, there are already several very well accomplished 2D options of the game.
Release date information
Originally planned for December 2020, but now the plan is around may-august 2021. We feel very safe about these range dates to release the game as actually, the gameplay is quite very well polished, and most original features for release are ready. However, further advertisement, artwork, and environmental polishment seem in order before release. The actual feature list is much longer than described, and the planned feature list is even much longer. Due to the almost pure focus of the client, server, integration of third-party services, game mechanics, and aesthetics development, almost nothing has been done on artwork and advertisement until now.
Want to help?
We would gladly accept any free help you can offer! Especially artwork and advertisement ;)
Author personal notes
Yes, 2D digital chess is incredible and offers very convenient playability/portability. However, 2D digital chess doesn’t 100% translate your skills to OTB chess, nor OTB is efficient as training on 2D digital chess.
Chessality is probably not a true replacement for over-the-board chess nor a true upgrade from 2D digital chess, but just another way to play the game. I will try to offer as much functionality and realism for true hard-core OTB players and offer the convenience of the digital world to more casual players while trying to keep the core values of chess to the best of my abilities as a human.
“Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.” – Magnus Carlsen
“Every chess master was once a beginner.” – Irving Chernev
“No one will regret the time dedicated to chess, as it will help in any profession.” – Tigran Petrosyan
“You must lead your opponent into a dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path out is only wide enough for one.” – Mikhail Tal
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” – Garry Kasparov
“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” – Tartakower
“****, I didn’t see that!” – Most players (probably)
Pro Strategy Football 2021
Another excellent release for this series, and this latest one is a HUGE upgrade over last year’s version. The ability to customize - already a major feature and differentiator between this game and others like it - has been greatly expanded so that pretty much leagues of any size (up to 130 teams) can be used in Single Season play, and leagues up to 32 teams (and as few as 8) can be used in Career mode. A quasi-Free Agency feature has been added as well, that is optional to use. In addition, career stats are tracked, and stat files in text format can be exported from any season or career in progress. A player encyclopedia is included that tracks all players in a career over an almost infinite number of seasons. I have simmed through as many as 25 and the results remain believable and consistent.
– Real player with 500.9 hrs in game
TLDR: At bottom.
I love this game. Right off the bat I want to make it clear that this is more of a coach / match simulator than a management sim, as I think that is important to note before entering the game, incase you are expecting something different than what it is.
I would love to see more management mechanics introduced, such as mid season trading, roster changes etc, and I believe there are discussion threads saying new things will be looked at for the next version of the game. For what the game is though, its a very enjoyable sim, with realistic match outcomes. I currently play a sim only league with the NFL and Draft mods. So I haven’t even touched the real meat and potatoes of the game with the ingame play calling
– Real player with 479.2 hrs in game
Pro Strategy Football 2022
I came into this series last year with Pro Strategy Football 2021. A game which, for an old time gamer sparked a lot of nostalgia in the way it was presented. There were things missing like game keeping records for head to head etc I fixed that little itch with a spreadsheet and small things like not being able to navigate to a players career stats from any screen. Still the game was a little gem.
Those things have been addressed with this addition along with numerous other improvements and continued optimizations as the game feels tighter and slicker when loading if that makes sense.
– Real player with 798.4 hrs in game
A tremendous effort by a lone indie developer with a day job. This game was created with love and passion for the game. Know what you are buying first, because it won’t be for everybody. Please read the description and feel free to ask things in the game forum first if you wish. The developer (Kerry) is very honest, open, and transparent - and very consumer friendly and a great guy! (plus it is a really terrific community too).
The game’s strength is the on-field gameplay - and in that department, it is unheralded, producing an accurate, realistic simulation of the game. You will not be controlling the players with a gamepad - it is focused on coaching, or if chosen, spectating games. In the coaching department there are thousands of plays that can be designed on the fly. This year many new formations (both classic and modern) were added and entire leagues (or individual teams) can be tailored to utilise them in ways that create their own characteristics or flavor (and there are mods done by really talented mod authors covering almost the entire NFL, USFL, and various other leagues too –- including fantasy leagues and teams).
– Real player with 355.6 hrs in game
Screeps: Arena
Screeps: Arena is an online RTS PvP-only game. Your script fights other players' script autonomously in a match-based arena environment.
Features:
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All aspects of an RTS game: gathering resources, base building, creating and upgrading units.
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You don’t control your units directly, you play by writing full-fledged JavaScript that runs on game servers.
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Other languages are supported via WebAssembly : C/C++, Rust, TypeScript, Go, C#, F#, Kotlin, Swift, D, Pascal, Zig, the list is growing.
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Your code is executed autonomously while fighting other players' code during series of short fast-paced 1x1 matchups.
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The system will match equal opponents based on your arena rating that changes with every rating game.
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Different “arenas” (multiplayer game modes) each with its own rules set and goals covering many aspects of a strategy game.
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Only basic programming skills are required. However, if you are a pro developer, now is the chance to put your skills to the limit!
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We will introduce new arenas every season so that you always have to write new code for different challenges.
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Play with friends and design your own challenges and arenas.
Noara: The Conspiracy
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– Real player with 22.2 hrs in game
I’m definitely biassed, but I’m super proud to be a part of it and this game is already incredible.
And it will be even better once we reach the finished version!
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game