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Chesh

Chesh is a two-player digital board game of skill and strategy that looks an awful lot like chess, but plays with a drastically different set of rules. Every game of Chesh starts with different pieces, and…

8 October 2015

Chesh is a puzzle developed by Damian Sommer, released 8 October 2015 on iOS.

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What Chesh is

Chesh is a puzzle game developed by Damian Sommer and released in 2015. It is available on iOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Chesh is a two-player digital board game of skill and strategy that looks an awful lot like chess, but plays with a drastically different set of rules. Every game of Chesh starts with different pieces, and each piece has a random movement rule assigned to it. It is up to each player to figure out what everything does, and how to use what's been given to you in order to win!
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Chesh launched on 8 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.

Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

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When did Chesh come out?
Chesh was released on 8 October 2015 for iOS.

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