5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Worth it · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.97.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $8.56/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 3.3 compatibility (everything since about 2010)., 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.75. 42 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.97. The record reaches that level 42 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Just Go ($5.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Braid ($14.99, scores 75).
This site sampled 564 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 727 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 46 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 3,277 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
1.4 hours to finish it, 127 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 91 times the campaign.
Players
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
You buy this product thinking "how hard could it be" and walk away wondering how humans hallucinated something so insane into being. 8/10
This game has caused me mental distress for the past 6 months, leading my family to send me to a mental facility. Overall this game will send you into a dark psychological spiral, and a spiritual journey which may possible change the person that you are . 7.5/10 , games kinda laggy after ~100 moves (recommend a NVIDA A100 to truly experience this game)
I bought this game for my girlfriend. She refused to launch it. It's pretty fun.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1349230/5d-chess-with-multiverse-time-travelReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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