About This Is Not Chess

This Is Not Chess is an Indie, Strategy, and Early Access game developed by Courtney Dawson. On 10/20/2020, it was released on the Steam Store by Courtney Dawson.

It can be played and ran on Windows systems. At the moment, there is no confirmed information regarding Steam Deck support for this game.

According to Steam’s category system, This Is Not Chess supports the following features:

• Family Sharing
• Shared/Split Screen
• PvP
• Includes level editor
• Co-op
• Shared/Split Screen PvP
• Multi-player
• Single-player
• Shared/Split Screen Co-op

From the Steam community, This Is Not Chess has been tagged with the following user tags:

• Strategy RPG
• Fantasy
• Magic
• Tactical
• RPG
• Grid-Based Movement
• Comedy
• Turn-Based Tactics
• Level Editor
• Family Friendly
• Funny
• Local Multiplayer
• Top-Down
• Strategy
• Anime
• Turn-Based Strategy
• Cartoony
• Moddable
• 2D
• Tactical RPG

Media & Sceenshots

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Related Packages

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Soures & References

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This Is Not Chess data has been sourced from:

• Valve Corporation. (2025, October 2). This Is Not Chess on Steam. Steam Store.
• Valve Corporation. (2025, October 2). This Is Not Chess. Steam Community Hub.