Chessplus Video Game Presskit - It's Not Chess. It's Better!

Key Facts

Platforms Steam (Coming Soon to Early Access) iPhone / iPad (Post Steam launch) Android (Post Steam launch)	Price / Release Date $TBD \| 2025
Developers (Self Published) Josh Caratelli \| Former Call of Duty® Senior Engineer Christian Simpson \| Boardgame creator	Contact General / Business info@chessplus.com Press / Media josh@chessplus.com

LINKS
Reviews and Publications
Steam Link
Chessplus.com
Tik Tok (Videos with > 2.6M Views)
Instagram (Videos with > 1.7M Views)
Facebook
Media Assets

ABOUT THE GAME

Originating from the successful Australian Board Game Chessplus - It's Not Chess. It's Better! Comes the Chessplus Video Game.

Combine. Split. Promote.
Use regular chess moves to merge two pieces onto the same square, creating a powerful hybrid. Move the combined piece using either piece’s abilities, or split them apart later to individual pieces for strategic positioning when the time is right.

But beware, if the combined piece is captured, you'll lose both!

Media Assets For Press (Logos / Screenshots / Trailers)

FEATURES

Explore exponentially more strategies by combine pieces into powerful hybrids or split them later for strategic positioning. Need more queens? Create your own with a "Biook" (Bishop + Rook) or rocket a pawn across the board with the "Rawn" (Rook + Pawn) for a quick promotion.
Balanced Chess at its core, only regular legal moves apply. But be careful if your combined piece is captured - you'll lose them both!
Show off your ELO ranking in PC / Mobile in cross-platform multiplayer.
Make every move matter in a Roguelike adventure or battle the AI in Singleplayer.
Enjoy the smoothest Chess experience around with stunning visuals and effects. You can also turn them off for a more traditional experience.

HISTORY

It all started with a 7-year-old determined to win a game of Chess against her dad. Aimee (Chessplus creator) was playing Chess against her father, Christian (Chessplus founder), but she was struggling. She knew that getting her Queen back was her best chance of turning the game around.

Then she made an unexpected move — she put her Rook and her Pawn, two pieces, on the same square. Curious about his daughter’s creative thinking, Christian played along. On her next turn, Aimee moved both pieces across the board and proudly declared she had promoted her pawn and regained her Queen.

What started as a playful moment soon became a household obsession with family and friends. Over the years, this passion project evolved into a family business, selling over 50,000 physical units worldwide—and now, Chessplus is making its way into the world of video games.

ABOUT THE DEVELOPERS

Josh Caratelli, Digital Director
Josh has spent over a decade professionally in the video game development industry, and is internationally recognized for his critical engineering work across several Call of Duty® titles. During the day, he is the Engineering Director at Gravity Well (a AAA game development studio). At night he is the developer of the Chessplus video game.