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Time Traveller's Chess playtest
by Danny Stevens, Phaedra Stevens
Play chess, time travel within the timeline to change the game history, and outwit your opponent to achieve checkmate anywhere on the timeline.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Oct 10, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Danny Stevens, Phaedra Stevens
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- LAN, Multiplayer, Online PvP, PvP, Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Time Traveller's Chess playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Time Traveller's Chess playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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About Time Traveller's Chess
Play a game of chess, building the timeline as you go. At an appropriate moment you may decide to make an incursion in the game's past, spending sand from your hourglass, to begin creating a new version of the game's history, and producing a discontinuity in time, a time rip. Take advantage of the destiny move, the original move made by your opponent to arrive at the other side of the time rip, to force a move based on previous, not current, game history. Your opponent may also be dancing about in time, playing in a more advantageous future or trying to undermine your past. A stalemate on the timeline does not end the game, merely becomes an obstacle to bypass or erase. A checkmate, anywhere in the timeline, is a victory!
From the game's Steam page.
