Merlin's Chess

Sports ∙ Strategy ∙ Tabletop
4.4
86 ratings 84 reviews
early access
2025
May 22
game modes
• Singleplayer • Multiplayer
player modes
• Standing • Sitting • Roomscale
compatibility
• Quest 2/Pro • Quest 3/3S
storage 1.4 GB

The world’s most legendary board game reimagined with magic, battles, and VR.

Whether you're here to relax, learn, or compete, Merlin’s Chess brings strategy and fantasy together in the most immersive way possible.

Includes:

🚨 Official CHESS.COM Integration!

Challenge over 200 million Chess.com users, or play against official Chess.com Bots of the world champions, athletes, and celebrity content creators. Enjoy first-of-kind cross-play.

♟️ Animated Chessboards

Massive or tabletop-sized pieces come to life and clash each other with sound and visual effects.

✋🏻 Full Hand Tracking Support

🎙️ Voice Commands

Command the board like a true wizard. Use natural language to move pieces, and perform in-game actions.

🎨 Environments & Piece Sets

Choose between various theme options to craft your own gameplay experience.

🌐 Multiple Game Modes

Use Casual/Ranked modes to play chess with popular Time Controls. Switch to Spectator Mode to join others and make it a Chess Party, or test your skills against AI opponents in AI Mode.

👫Make New Friends

Customizable Avatars, Voice Chat, and Friendship System. Find your people, or bring your own. Includes safety features like Mute & Block.

Upcoming Features

  • Puzzle Mode
  • Mixed Reality Support
  • Merlin's Chess Academy
  • New Environments, Piece Sets, AI Opponents
comfort Comfortable
age rating10+ Everyone
websitemerlinschess.gg
developerTeleporter Realities
publisherMechaTurtle Interactive
connectionInternet required
app versionv0.2.0.16c.p
languagesEnglish

Reviews 84

Mindjive1 day ago

Bringing chess to life

Merlin's Chess is such a cool way to play in VR! I like how the pieces actually come to life with battle animations. The chess(dot)com integration is great; playing against that huge community right in VR is amazing. Seems like some nice updates are coming, like a puzzle mode, which sounds great even for casual players that aren't huge chess buffs.

LatissaKatrice2 days ago

Chess lover here!

If you love the game of chess as much as I do, I highly recommend this game!
If you have never played the game of Chess but have always wanted to learn, the tutorial is very well done as well as during gameplay you are shown which spaces the piece that you choose can move to.
The visual effects are engaging, and the sound of the pieces moving across the board is very realistic. There are choices of environments and types of piece sets, and I'm hopeful they will be adding more in the future. They will also be adding a story line as well.
Did I mention this game is officially supported by Chess dot com? You can sign up and start building up your rank!
There's a lot of different options including: the skill level of the AI; choose your piece color (black or white); left or right handed; you can also edit your character and choose to play or spectate.
My favorite thing about this game is being able to kick back, use hand tracking, and voice activation so you can speak out loud where you want your pieces positioned. It's very relaxing and challenging at the same time.
I really appreciate the thought that went into this game, and after spending more than a few hours playing on it, I can definitely recommend this title.

baden harris2 days ago

Great game 10/10 chess

The game has stunning visuals along with the
good hand tracking. The sounds and visuals when moving around the game/the chess board are amazing and fun to look at(eye candy). The game has good graphics in the menus and the functions with the table thingy when getting into a game. The game is a little hard at first trying to learn to move around and function. There also was some difficulty with figuring out how to load into a game with a ai or real player. I also had trouble with the all the graphics making my eyes hurt after a couple rounds Even with all that the experience of being able to play aginst real people through chess. Com-makes this game a must buy

Tree_Teacher2 days ago

Really good game

I've not very good at chess but this game is really fun and very well built, it has a really cool theme, I woukd recommend this to anyone who likes chess and vr

Buirgir2 days ago

Great chess game

Game was fun and polished, there were a few minor bugs but overall i really enjoyed the artstyle of the game aswell as the gameplay itself. Only thing missing for me is being able to play against friends which i am pretty sure they will add soon.

Bloodangel3 days ago
1

Like a VR Battle Chess

This has great presentation.
Love the design from the lodge to the arenas and chess.

I’m hoping they add smooth movement instead of just teleport though.

You can partake in a game of chess against AI or Human. Can set timers.
Or you can spectate and watch players battle it out in the middle of the arenas.

You are standing on a platform, with your opponent opposite, each making your move on the chess board in front of you, which then plays out on the huge battle board below.
To your left there is also the traditional 2D chess board, to help you analyse your next move.

I’d like if we could also hover over the enemies pieces and it would show what they are, rather than just showing what our own pieces are. Don’t matter too much, as you will get to learn what the pieces are from using your own pieces in game.

Picking up each piece also does show where that piece can be placed, which is handy for chess novices like me.

You can even go down to the board below and get in the middle of the action.

Animations are decent when each piece attacks another piece.

Sounds are good and it also has voices.

Maybe could give us option to choose from various chess sets, each with own animations? Maybe a good, evil, undead, demons, barbarians, vikings, medieval, trolls.

I was impressed with how nicely done this game is when playing.. early access but I didn’t come across any bugs so far.

I recommend this to any chess players out there.

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