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FourOrbStudios · Published by FourOrbStudios
Mostly Positive — 75% positive (55 reviews) · 15 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
"The real chess was the friends we made along the way." - Randy Mc'Chess
DJCTQ 6Full Controller Support
£2.49
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3 Sept 2026Lowest: £2.49 · Highest: £2.498 Oct 2026
Strategy · 2023 · More under £5 games
Dive into intricate strategic battles in Stress Chess, a deep strategy game from FourOrbStudios. Experience the intensity of gameplay released in 2023.
About this game
The Mc'Chess children have got themselves in quite the pickle this time.
Can you keep them out of danger and checkmate the opponent?
The opponent will happily trade any piece in exchange for one of the Mc'Chess kids, so keep them safe, and most of all, have fun.
Each level starts with a unique opening from chess theory, so you can learn while you play.
Go through 12 campaigns, each with the Mc'Chess kids playing as different pieces.
Features:
Cool features we might do if people like this:
Can you keep them out of danger and checkmate the opponent?
The opponent will happily trade any piece in exchange for one of the Mc'Chess kids, so keep them safe, and most of all, have fun.
Each level starts with a unique opening from chess theory, so you can learn while you play.
Go through 12 campaigns, each with the Mc'Chess kids playing as different pieces.
Features:
- Leaderboards
- Character editor
- 12 Campaigns
- Over 30 Chess Openings to Master
Cool features we might do if people like this:
- Level editor
- Higher Difficulty & Faster AI
- More Detailed Leaderboards
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Win 7
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable
- Memory: 4000 MB RAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Win 7
- Processor: AMD Radeon HD 7000 series GPU or newer, NVIDIA GeForce 8 series GPU or newer, Intel 3rd generation (Ivy Bridge) series GPU or newer
- Memory: 4000 MB RAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
Supported Languages
English
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Patch Notes 1.1.1
Hey all, Just a quick bug fix update. Bugs fixed: Fixed a bug where levels would sometimes spawn with the wrong starting friend units. Thanks to Benj0vi for the bug report.Read full article on Community Announcements (fourorbstudios)Patch NotesOfficial
Accessibility Update #1
Hey all, I've added controller support as that seemed to be the most prescient accessibility feature to add first. Hopefully it works out of the box with whatever controllers you have, if it doesn't, please let me know what you've got and I'll see about fixing it up. I got about halfway through improving the AI before I realized the speed improvements were introducing minor bugs. So I decided to bench that for now to get a working controller version working. Depending on how my dev time goes, I might fix this up first, otherwise I'm leaning towards adding language support, and input remapping. If there's enough interest, I might look into adding a puzzle editor and a way to play user generated levels, but that would likely be a further goal. Thanks for the support so far. PS: I was aiming to have this update done at the start of the Spring Sale, but life got in the way. It's on sale for less than a dollar for the next 24 hours or so, if you know anyone who might enjoy it, I'd appreciate you sharing it with those people.Read full article on Community Announcements (fourorbstudios)AnnouncementsOfficial
Changes Coming To Stress Chess's Pricing Model
As Of March 1st, Stress Chess is changing to a one-off purchase model. The goal with this is to cover adding some accessibility features. The cost will be as low as possible to manage the new features. Anyone who has already played the game by the end of February will get to keep their copy as a thanks for playing it. So if you have any friends who haven't played it yet, now is the time to remind them. If there are any concerns or queries, please let me know.Read full article on Community Announcements (fourorbstudios)Patch NotesOfficial
Minor Patch (1.0.2)
Fixed a few levels not working as expected. Thanks to Easy Target, Dokartist, Atslughorn, Spasic, AND92, and Magnus77 for helping diagnose the bug.Read full article on Community Announcements (fourorbstudios)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.1 Minor Leaderboard Fix
Patch 1.0.1: Now that the leaderboards have a good number of scores on them, I made a few tweaks to make them look better.Read full article on Community Announcements (fourorbstudios)
