Open now · By request
MogriChess playtest
by Percogna
Don't just take pieces. Steal their moves. In this chess variant, a capturing piece keeps the movement abilities of the pieces it captures. If a pawn takes a rook, then takes a bishop, it will move like a queen. Ten AI opponents, local two-player, and a quick optional tutorial.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Nov 10, 2026
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Percogna
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Co-op, Multiplayer, Single-player, Split-screen co-op
- Languages
- English, French, German, Korean and 5 more
How to join the MogriChess playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the MogriChess playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Board theme patterns (for the board's squares) were created with generative AI. The game's text was translated from English into the non-English languages with the help of AI tools.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About MogriChess
Don't just take pieces. Steal their moves.
MogriChess is chess with one major change; when a piece captures another piece, it gains its movement abilities.
Every trade is a gift
A piece doesn't always have the same value. It's worth whatever movement abilities it has accumulated, and when it falls, the piece that takes it inherits all its abilities.
Trades hand out upgrades, and the board gets sharper as it empties.
Learn it in minutes
Every piece shows its moves as marks in eight directions: one dot is one square, two dots is two, a bar is all the way. A nine-lesson tutorial on a live board teaches the rest.
Features
- Play against ten computer opponents, Beginner to Legend, each stronger than the one below it
- Play two players on one computer
- Games take five to ten minutes
- Hints, undo, and save and load
- Nine board themes, six piece color sets, and 2D or 3D pieces
- Mouse or controller
Coming from chess?
- Nothing jumps. The knight moves up to two squares in any direction, and can be blocked.
- No castling, no en passant, no two-square pawn opening.
- A pawn on the last rank gains one square of movement in every direction, instead of becoming a queen.
- Kings capture, but never absorb.
From the game's Steam page.
