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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.