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The Queen's Gambit Chess is a single player action game. It received neutral reviews from players.

Learn to play chess online with friends in multiplayer mode or solo with Beth.

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56%Audience ScoreBased on 642 reviews
graphics18 positive mentions
stability18 negative mentions

  • Great for beginners with comprehensive tutorials and puzzles that teach chess fundamentals and strategies effectively.
  • Beautiful graphics and immersive integration with the story from the series, enhancing the overall chess learning experience.
  • Engaging gameplay with various challenges, coaching bots, and a rewarding system that motivates learning and progression.
  • Severe stability issues with frequent crashes during games and even on startup, making the game often unplayable.
  • High hardware demands and bugs including persistent loading problems, screen flickering, black screens, and UI glitches.
  • Limited online multiplayer functionality with slow matchmaking, bot opponents, and no robust ELO or game statistics for offline play.
  • graphics

    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    62% positive mentions, 28% neutral mentions, 10% negative mentions

    The game’s graphics are widely praised for their beauty, creativity, and strong connection to the show, with both 2D and 3D designs enhancing the experience. While visually appealing and well-presented, some users report occasional glitches, crashes, or slow load times, particularly on certain devices. Overall, the graphics stand out as a top feature, especially for beginners and fans of the series, though stability issues can detract from the experience.

    • “Beautiful graphics, and great concepts to increase engagement.”
    • “Amazing, I adored the show especially Anya's acting and this game's graphics is beyond immaculate. It's the first time I found a game that teaches you chess like this; it's so entertaining and I am extremely glad that I found this game.”
    • “Everything is done well, excellent graphics, fantastic 3D chessboard and the prompts during the game teach a lot.”
    • “Graphics constantly collapse whether 2D or 3D.”
    • “The game's graphics don't load or are very glitchy - unplayable on S22.”
    • “The graphics fall apart.”
  • stability

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent crashes, freezes, black screens, and glitches across both 2D and 3D modes, making it often unplayable. While some minor bugs have been addressed over time, the overall experience remains hindered by poor performance and frequent technical problems.

    • “Very buggy - I had to install it on an old phone just to create an account to be able to get in.”
    • “Extremely buggy game, crashes a lot, frame rate sucks too (my phone usually handles games well). The game itself is good but the execution couldn't be any worse. I really look forward to playing this game when the issues are fixed.”
    • “I was very excited to play this game... but I can't get past the 'who's playing' screen; it crashes and freezes.”
  • story

    15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    27% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 20% negative mentions

    The story integrates chess lessons with an engaging narrative, puzzles, and challenges, making it suitable for all ages and skill levels. While the storytelling and progression are praised for their creativity and thematic connection, some users find the pacing slow and occasionally hampered by technical issues, which can diminish the overall experience. Nonetheless, its unique blend of storytelling and chess gameplay is seen as promising and refreshing.

    • “It has everything... nice narrative, practical on board exercise, puzzles, various challenges, people to play, coaching bots and more, all linked to lessons and glossary, divided in ease to learn sections for all ages, made fun with in-game prizes to unlock, coins that are gained as the story progresses and users improve, with mini store to use those free coins.”
    • “Otherwise, the game is interesting to have a story implemented with chess as it is probably the first chess game to have a story at all.”
    • “It makes me feel like I'm in Beth Harmon's story of reaching the big leagues of chess.”
    • “I might fall asleep waiting to move, play the next mission/story and the slow animations and transitions are really testing my patience.”
    • “What a sad story.”
    • “Good for player want to play deference interactive like story mission.”
  • gameplay

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally enjoyable with fun and challenging puzzles and easy-to-follow lessons, but it suffers from technical issues such as inaccurate screen mapping, lack of advanced movement options, and frequent crashes. Additionally, unnecessary animations can make the experience feel sluggish.

    • “The lessons are great and easy to follow, the puzzles are fun and challenging, and the gameplay is enjoyable.”
    • “Liked the gameplay”
    • “Screen mapping is inaccurate and gameplay movement has no advanced movement option.”
    • “Instead of focusing on a better playing experience, unnecessary and annoying animations take priority, which just makes the gameplay feel sluggish.”
    • “I got the Netflix screen, then it asked me who was playing, then showed a message briefly about gameplay, and then went black with the little blue loading icon, and then it kicks me back to my home screen.”
  • optimization

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    25% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant optimization issues, causing crashes and an uncomfortable experience on lower-end devices and in horizontal mode. While it may work better for high-end users, overall performance is poor and hampers playability.

    • “Needs a little optimization for lower-end devices, but other than that, the game is great for pros or beginners.”
    • “Completely unplayable and not optimized.”
    • “Here’s a concise and structured review for the app: rating: ★★☆☆☆ the app feels poorly optimized for horizontal use—the chessboard is way too small, making it difficult to play comfortably.”
    • “This piece of trash crashes at the title screen because the devs are allergic to optimization.”
  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users consistently praise the game's music as charming and well-crafted, complementing its excellent graphics and overall presentation, enhancing the immersive and emotional experience.

    • “Also graphics and music are very good and the whole game is very well presented.”
    • “Excellent graphics, good features and music.”
    • “Loved the series. The game makes my eyes teary with charming music and artwork. One of the best.”
  • monetization

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game’s monetization relies on Netflix subscription access, which limits availability but allows it to remain ad-free. Users appreciate the lack of ads, enhancing immersion and enjoyment.

    • “Love this app, it's a shame it's only available to Netflix subscribers because it seems like a fantastic game for beginners. However, I do like that there are no ads, which is probably thanks to that fact.”
    • “It makes you feel a part of her journey, and best of all – no ads.”
    • “No ads, just need to sign in with Netflix.”
  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is considered tedious and unrewarding, with players finding the effort largely pointless.

    • “The rewards are tedious and pointless.”
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The Queen's Gambit Chess is a action game.

The Queen's Gambit Chess is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

The Queen's Gambit Chess was developed by Netflix, Inc..

The Queen's Gambit Chess has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked The Queen's Gambit Chess for its graphics but disliked it for its stability.

The Queen's Gambit Chess is a single player game.

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