Development Update - New Art, Gameplay Improvements and Final Polish

Over the past few weeks, Immortal Chess has received one of its biggest pre-release updates yet.

The visual style of the game has been refreshed across character artwork, boards, Steam assets and several UI elements to create a cleaner and more consistent look.This update also includes a large number of gameplay, usability and stability improvements as we continue preparing for launch.Visual & UI Improvements

• Art overhaul, replaced generated ai slop

• Improved boards, playgrounds, classes and pieces

• Refreshed character and promotional artwork with new hand painted style

• Better scaling and safe-area support across phones and tablets

• Improved tooltips, hover states and shop presentation

• Improved status effect visuals and readability

• Improved table and piece previews in the shop and inventory

• Improved status effect visuals and reduced excessive glow effects

• Improved post-game and lobby UI

• Added inventory and lobby filtering

Gameplay & Classes

• Added spell premoves

• Added keyboard shortcuts for spells

• Improved spell highlighting and legal move validation

• Fixed multiple issues with Resurrection, Curse, Blindness, Freeze and King buffs

• Improved class-specific spell behaviour for Necromancer, Monarch, Strider, Cultist and Disruptor

• Removed Undo from Ranked matches and disabled undo for opening moves

• Improved AI spell decision-making in several situations

• Improved offline Board Setup with better controls, Mana settings and reusable position templates

• Fixed several King highlight and check validation issues

Online & Stability

• Improved reconnect and disconnect handling

• Improved server restart handling so active non ranked matches are not interrupted

• Fixed several end-game and timeout edge cases

• Improved server and lobby state handling

• Fixed issues around Join Game, Undo requests and connection loss

• Fixed cases where a player could disconnect while waiting for the opponent's turn

• Improved automatic reconnect behaviour after losing focus or network connection

• Improved match search and matchmaking state handling

• Fixed multiple timeout and end-of-game edge cases

• Fixed multiple reconnect and server-state issues across Windows and mobile

• Added new update support

Accounts, Shop & Progression

• Added customer support access and bug reports

• Improved purchase flow and prevented overlapping purchase requests

• Added experience perks

• Added and improved the Essence and Experience progression systems

• Improved class selection and purchase preview behaviour

This update includes many smaller fixes and improvements across gameplay, UI, online matches and platform-specific behaviour as we continue final preparations for launch on September 25.