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Cat Chess

Capricia Labs · Published by Capricia Productions

Very Positive — 87% positive (492 reviews) · 16 achievements

Last updated 28 Sept 2026

Play the ancient and thrilling game of Chess but with... cats! Lead your furry friends to the Purrfect battle of brains and whiskers!

DJCTQ 62 DLC available ↗PvPFull Controller Support

£6.29

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5 Sept 2026Lowest: £6.29 · Highest: £6.2911 Oct 2026

Indie, Strategy, Casual, Sports · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games

Discover the strategic fun of Cat Chess, where you lead a team of cats in battles of wits and claws. Created by Capricia Labs, this 2026 indie game blends classic chess with a whimsical twist.

About this game

Play the ancient and thrilling game of Chess with... CATS!

Everything is more fun, cute and chaotic with cats, including the game of chess!
So sit back, and lead your furry friends to The Purrfect battle of brains and whiskers.
Classic chess reinvented with attitude, humor, and, of course, adorable cats.

We are not saying this game will change the future of gaming…

BUT… there SHOULD be a chess game with cats, right?

How come there isn’t one? How can that be?!

  • Online & Offline Mode: Challenge your friends in custom online matches or kick back with local offline play whenever you want

  • You VS Computer: Test your strategy against a versatile Bot that scales all the way up to 3000 ELO

  • Single Player Campaign: Tackle a series of challenges and unlock more goodies!

  • Classic chess mechanics with a feline twist

  • Each piece is a unique cat breed with expressive animations and personality

  • Every interaction between pieces is fun, cute and funny

  • Stray Cats - fierce, witty, rebellious

  • House Cats - elegant, calculated, smug

  • Funny emotes, quick matches, and chaotic charm

  • Play with your cats while waiting for the opponent’s turn

  • FEN Support: Play custom positions easily with FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation)

  • Make your own Purr-fect Cats and Match: Customize your cat colors, skins, board elements and more!

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 or later 64-bit (latest update)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K ||| AMD Ryzen R5 1600
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 ||| AMD Radeon RX 560 ||| Intel Arc A310
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 ||| AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT ||| Intel Arc A750

Supported Languages

English, French, Italian, German, Greek, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese

Latest news

  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Month 1 Game Updates

    Meow meow meow! Another Cat Chess update is here! After 1 month (and a couple days) of the release of Cat Chess, we’ve focused on making the game smoother, more stable, and more comfortable to play across different setups. What’s New? More fight animations, including a new Pawn vs. Pawn attack!A new cat-paw cursor with a cute wiggle effect.Functional Forfeit and Draw buttons during matches.An option to automatically skip the intro cinematic.Improved Gamepad and Steam Deck support, including trackpad controls.Better controller cursor speed and precision.A major optimization pass on characters and props.Better Fullscreen, Borderless, and multi-monitor support.Improved compatibility with DX11, DX12, and Vulkan.Several important crash, camera, UI, and character visual fixes.Future Content We’re not done yet! Alongside more fixes and polish, we’re also working on new content for Cat Chess! Currently we're focusing on: Improving the CampaignImproving BotsImprovements to PVP matchesand new Skins! Thank you for playing, sharing your feedback, and helping us make Cat Chess better with every update! 🐾🐱
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  • Community & EventsOfficial

    Cat Chess is part of the Cat Awareness Feline Event

    Hello everyone! We're really happy to announce that we're participating in the Cat Awareness Feline Sale on Steam from 7 to 17th of August! Sadly, we weren't able to make a discount (we really tried! Even asked to be a special case) because we released the game just a couple of weeks ago and Steam doesn't allow discounts in sequence, but we're really happy to be there with other amazing cat games and promoting rescues and adoption of cats! Don't forget to help your neighborhood cat if possible!Meow
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Week 1 Game Updates

    Meow meow meow! Its been exactly a week since the launch and we wanted to say thank you all SO MUCH for such an amazing game launch! Honestly, Cat Chess was a fun, cute vision we had that we thought just must exist and it blew our mind how amazing the reactions have been. All we can say is thank you. Of course, like any release some problems popped at the release, and we already made many improvements and fixed based on the feedback we are receiving from you! Here are the main things we managed to do in the first week since release: New Content: Added the Beach Chessboard & Gold Cat color customization.Royal Animations: New victory dance and special attack animation for the King.Competitive Features: Implemented ELO overlays and opponent tracking logic.Platform Optimization: Full support for SteamDeck and Gamepad (including refined cursor speed and input fields).Global Expansion: Localization expanded to 3 more languages with improved font compatibility for the rest. UI/UX Overhaul: Complete rework of the Main Menu, Options, and Chess Result screens. Performance & Stability: Added DX12 support and fixed Achievement tracking. Quality of Life: New Piece Type indicators and a global UI scale setting for better accessibility.We keep reading everything you are writing and we are now mostly working on explaining the stalemates a little better so it's super clear why a stalemate is a stalemate and on making the campaign fit players level, so having a harder option for people who are not new to chess.
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Meow meow meow CAT CHESS IS OUT.... NOW!

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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Meow meow meow 100,000 WISHLISTS!

    Meow meow!Meow meow meow meow meow mwwwwww meoowooowwwwwwwwww meow meooooooooooooow!!! 100,000 WISHLISTS!!mwwwwww meoowooowwwwwwwwww meow meow Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Translation to English:Hello everyone! We were already impressed with Cat Chess reaching 50,000 wishlists, but yesterday we reached 100,000 WISHLISTS!!! Again, this is amazing, and we didn't expect that Cat Chess would go THAT well, really. It really means a lot to us. We will be releasing Cat Chess tomorrow, so bear with us for a little longer, and you will be able to play with the cute cats on Cat Chess with your friends! *Translated with Google Translate
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