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Simply Chess

App ID 312280
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher BlueLine Games
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies FNA Engine, MonoGame Engine, XNA Engine
Last Changenumber 29032109
Last Record Update 16 May 2025 – 20:15:44 UTC ()
Release Date 11 September 2015 – 19:01:06 UTC ()

The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.

This app has been retired and is no longer available on the Steam store.

Additional Information

Developer BlueLine Games
gamedir empty string
metacritic_name Simply Chess
controller_support full
community_visible_stats Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher BlueLine Games
Store Release Date 11 September 2015 – 19:01:06 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Indie (23)
Store Genres Casual (4), Free to Play (37), Indie (23), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 11 September 2015 – 19:01:06 UTC ()
app_retired_publisher_request Yes
Store Asset Modification Time 3 August 2015 – 11:33:00 UTC () (1438601580)
review_score 6
review_percentage 74
app_retired_was_free Yes
Detected Technologies (?) FNA Engine, MonoGame Engine, XNA Engine, Ogg SDK, SDL SDK, Vorbis SDK
restricted_countries DE
Germany
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First seen on SteamDB 29 June 2014 – 19:08:32 UTC (), in changelist #583167

Supported Languages

5 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes
Polish Yes
Finnish Yes
Russian Yes

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timestamp14 May 2025 – 17:40:07 UTC
Trailers
256655717 ↴
trailer_nameSimply Chess - launch trailer
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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
228983 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2010 Redist No size
228984 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2012 Redist No size
229002 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980.NET 4.0 Redist No size
229020 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980OpenAL 2.0.7.0 Redist No size
312281 Windows Chess Content 120.08 MiB 88.17 MiB
312282 Windows Chess Windows Binaries 16.22 MiB 4.57 MiB
312283 macOS Chess OSX Binaries 165.34 MiB 99.07 MiB
312284 Linux Chess Linux Binaries 40.24 MiB 11.50 MiB
312285 Linux Chess Linux Content 120.08 MiB 88.17 MiB

Total size on disk is 461.95 MiB and total download size is 291.49 MiB.

Total size on disk is 136.30 MiB and total download size is 92.74 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 1649083 22 February 2017 – 17:01:56 UTC
beta 1649083 22 February 2017 – 17:02:08 UTC

Other

Name Value
baselanguages English, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Finnish
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