# Very Real Chess

Summer DB entity ID: 6e8edbba\-0947\-4194\-84dc\-7a7469802d5e

Steam App ID: 526090

Very Real Chess  is one of the first Virtual Reality chess games created specifically for a Steam VR experience\. Compete one\-on\-one with AI in a fully featured chess environment\. Key Features:   Move around in a simplistic room\-scale or standing\-only game environment   Play against the computer with one of the best AI in the world \-\- the Stockfish chess engine   Play on either side as white or black   Wrong move detection tells you when a move is not possible   Overhead view allows the player to see the chessboard from above like a traditional 2D chess game    Interested in developing your own virtual reality experience? Very Real Chess is released under the GPL 3\.0 license, so contact the developer for source code\!

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Zachary Geier

- Publisher: Zachary Geier

- Release date: Nov 11, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, Simulation, Sports, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/526090/ss\_1c32acebbb5cde3581ee0ed522b4c53641069b40\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478923016, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/526090/ss\_391c10d94cd4102228ab32a787e046b5edf965d2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478923016, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/526090/ss\_1e67bb71fb4a6ff441b2787ab3e39bd9382eeaf1\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478923016, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/526090/ss\_356007d0f329cdd1c347affcff7850fcdb689e1b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478923016, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/526090/ss\_bab0f197b4ff62c0bb159e5ec680af54c254090a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478923016

- Price: 99 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 5

- Steam positive reviews: 2

- Steam negative reviews: 3

- Steam positive percentage: 40%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/6e8edbba-0947-4194-84dc-7a7469802d5e/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/6e8edbba-0947-4194-84dc-7a7469802d5e/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T14:25:29\.459985\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T14:25:30\.733876\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T14:25:30\.485816\+00:00

Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/526090/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/526090/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=526090","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/526090"\},"price":"2026\-09\-22T14:25:29\.459985\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-22T14:25:29\.459985\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-22T14:25:30\.733876\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-22T14:25:30\.485816\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"26c539ce\-704f\-416d\-ba41\-215bc20ed9ff","catalog":"eb7a9edc\-f875\-4f20\-ac95\-7ad0e4def23f","details":"337a4492\-ee31\-4e79\-8ba0\-5b82ca28630d","players":"b601f4d9\-37e2\-4c59\-be92\-6b7a25ed961b","reviews":"bf54eecb\-fc59\-4864\-a3e6\-0498e1a9bb8c"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\}

Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"6e8edbba\-0947\-4194\-84dc\-7a7469802d5e","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/526090/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/6e8edbba-0947-4194-84dc-7a7469802d5e)