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
Wild Wild Chess
Nice thematic chess, killing pieces with a pistol is so coll.
The art style helps me to forget how I suck on chess. :D:D:D Bang Bang
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
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I’m following all the thematic Chess serie! Loved the wild west theme!! Waiting for more!
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Join Rush Attack / 加入突袭
Welcome in Join Rush Attack! Start running alone and gather people on your way to collect a massive crowd. Calculate your moves on the run and save as many members of the crowd as possible. Let’s see how far you can get in this crazy survival race!
Run the crowd until you reach the castle at the end of the level. Crush your rivals in the final battle and capture the fortress!
Game Features:
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A ton of levels
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Customize your character as you want
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Educational game, perfect for kids!
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Ragnarok Chess
So, every time I would checkmate the AI, the game would crash. Due to the fact that most of the other reviews also have low playtime, I am assuming it is either a new glitch or they didn’t play long enough to run into it.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Beautiful game! I loved the design of the pieces, environment and battle particles, illumination. A very solid and immersive game. Congrats to the developers.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Bottom of the 9th
Hi there:
This is a fun game quick and simple.
It’s the bottom of the 9th and you need 1 point to win the game.
Some of you may find this useful.
When a S (Strike) is rolled the batting player need to roll bigger then that to hit.
If same number is rolled will result to a foul.
When a B (Ball) is rolled the batting player need to roll the same number or lower to get a ball.
When a C (Crush) is rolled the batting player must roll the same number to hit.
Whenever you hit the ball with a 6 you Crush It!
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
This is my first ever review.
My advice would be to buy a physical copy of this board game.
The digital game itself is fantastic, and great fun.
My major issue that has caused me to write this review, and advise you to save the £0.79 pence this game costs, is that there is a finite amount of dice role animations and therefore it feels like rolling the dice is out of your control.
The developers really need to make the dice rolling mechanic truly random. When you have played enough games you will notice that, immediately, when the dice begins its role animation you will be able to call the face it will land on before it has finished its role. This can cause you to feel very frustrated and give you a feeling of the game being against you.
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
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)
LUXO Buddies
Fun fact: NEARLY what it promises to be. One of the most classic games? check.
Which we all know and love? Doublecheck.
Assortment of exciting new features? I seem to be blind, can´t find them.
But who will care for features (choose your portrait wisely, guys and gals out there, as you can´t seem to change it… same is true for your player name) when the fun is real - at least when one loves this good old card game as much as I do.
Enough review, I need to go back to Multiplayer Lobby and play some more =D
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
I could never match up with friends in multiplayer. The multiplayer seems fake - it just sets you up with bots.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
The Cyclist: Tactics
It looks like a boardgame and it plays like a boardgame, a boardgame for those with large rooms in their houses, or small rooms but with a corridor or hallway to place all those tiles. The roads are divided in nodes, hundreds of them. The nodes/turn on flat terrain is 10. It takes some turns to get your 4 or less riders from start to finish. Tne time is expressed in turns, partial turns, did loose with a 0,01 difference. Yep it can be close. Your riders have different traits making them better and if you add the same trait again makes them worse too. Flat Mountain and Recovery are some of the traits to go for. It’s core mechanic is energy consumption and fatigue if you use it to the max. Thinking about tomorrow is for me the hardest part of this game. Go for that jersey and burn those reserves or move deeper into the peloton to get more slipsteam.
– Real player with 364.0 hrs in game
Just one more stage…
I had the chance to play the physical board game prototype of TCT with the producer of the game back in ~2013. Already then it was a very intense experience and we forgot to eat the whole day because we have been sucked into the game so much. So I very much was looking forward to the digital version of it and was able to support a bit during the beta test.
The Cyclist: Tactics is for everybody who likes bicycle races, strategic team building, tactical decision making and board games. It really catches the vibe of real-life bicycle racing well and the results of your actions feel natural. If you dive deeper into the game and have some experience, you can create some really tense situations which decide about winning or losing the race. There are many different ways to play: specialize in flat/hilly/mountain/time trials, build teams suitable for single stage races or for longer tours. So in my opinion there is a lot to discover and many hours of exciting gameplay. With the procedurally generated stages no game is like another and often requires different tactics.
– Real player with 150.2 hrs in game
Football tournament
Lucky me gets to write the first review for Football Tournament, which is an asset/template flip, that is to say, it’s a “game” that has been produced by copying a game template from GameMaker Studio, changing a few things, then dumping the barely functional “product” on Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. In this case it was a GameMaker Studio template for doing a simple billiards style mobile app puzzle, but the developer flipped some art assets from another site to at least make it look like they had some involvement with developing this rather than directly trying to sell other people’s work. It’s refreshing that the developer acknowledges they’re using someone else’s work here to try make money from Steam.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Ole - Card Game
Oléeeeeee !!!
The Olé Cup is the most famous football tournament in the galaxy! Build your team and show that you can become the greatest champion! Olé is a strategic card game with infinite combinations of moves and tactical formation.
The perfect match
Olé’s matches are fast and dynamic and fully exploit the player’s strategy. You choose how you use your actions: evolving your players, making passes, kicks and using effect and trap cards.
Build Your Team
Choose the formation, and build your deck with players and effect cards. Combine moves, evolve players, advance and score goals to win.
