Cat Chess

How's this for dating myself: This is Battlechess, but 3D and with cats. I mean, it's chess. Pawns, en passant, castling, sinking the other guy's battleship, you know all that. (Minus the battleship bit, I was just pullin' your leg.) The pieces are cats. You click on your cat to move it, it will look up at the camera, wherever you put it. They make cat noises, meowing and purring. Except for the king, that fat chonk, that's voiced by a dude with a lovely deep voice going, "Meyooow." The selling point is the captures: there's a little animation that happens. Pawn-kitties whap captured pawn kitties on the top of the head. Bigger pieces may have sillier animations. Each capture animation is exactly the same, ie: the queen always grooms the enemy bishop, the rook sticks a box on the knight's head, etc. You run the risk of the novelty wearing off quickly, in which case you're left with a chess game with meows. There's a ten-match campaign against the enemy AI, whose sole purpose is a few unlocks: changing the colour of the cats, and ultimately unlocking a golden set so your cats can be blingy and rizz or whatever the correct term is. This campaign AI is not a very good opponent at all, so you have ten perfunctory matches to get through to do ten perfunctory matches to unlock a few in-game features: changing the colour of your cats, and optionally having an all-gold skin. Mostly this unlocks the power to really offend the eyeball as it gives you the full 24-bit RGB gamut. Unless acid-yellow-and-purple cats don't offend you, because that's the natural outcome of that sorta thing. Now, the difficulty can be scalable in custom matches and is ostensibly capable of 3000 ELO; I'm no master chess player but the 1500 ELO put up enough of a fight and wasn't doing dumb things like feeding me pawns. If you've got an absolute mania for chess, this will solve it, but in a fairly basic sort of way. Well, you can also play it online if you find somebody else with the game. There's me! But truth be told, I'm not sure I want to go around playing chess seriously. I used to, many moons ago, and I've come to appreciate having moved on. Seriously, I got this because I like cats, and the little intro movies made me laugh. Cat-whaps amuse me. I got this because of cats slapping each other, that's about it. The animation of the pawn taking out bigger pieces amuses me to no end, and the game puts little musical stings at just the right moment to ham this up even further. A+. This will be good to amuse your nieces, teach them a little chess perhaps, or if you have a friend who's a bit of a chess-duffer and really likes silly cat hijinks, here you go. Serious chess players may want a game with more features. Me? I got my money's worth after a few hours, can't complain. That said, I might just consider streaming a match or two in the near future. I just need people also crazy enough to want to watch and/or cat-whap me. How's that for bespoke, curated entertainment experiences? This is no mere "content". Details are on my profile, partially because I hate advertising, also because it's a hump so small I can be sure only the best people get in.

Very little depth; the AI in the game is terrible, seems like there's no real soundtrack besides public domain classical music, and PvE is missing a lot of features that would make you enjoy playing. There's "toys" like a laser pointer and yarn ball you can drop, but they do basically nothing. No "friendly" mode for PvE where you can undo moves, no way to learn or improve at the game like Chess.com's move ratings. I feel like this should have been an early access release while they expand on content; for now we basically just have the cat animations and engine.

За идею - плюс, за реализацию - минус. Возможно, это будет поводом улучшать игру и дальше. Итак, что мы получаем в этой игре? Шахматы. Основная фишка? Котики. Разные - пираты, породистые и не очень, даже какие-то мутанты. И анимации взятия. Чего нет? Плавных анимаций - нет отдельной анимации взятия на проходе, все остальные - однотипные для каждого варианта взятия. Плюс, поверженные кошки просто уходят через всё поле за доску со стороны противника, проходя через фигуры, кстати. Ещё мы получаем неудобные ракурсы камеры, некоторые анимации будто обрываются или просто недоделаны. Игра не оптимизирована, к тому же. Да, есть приятная классическая музыка, хорошая задумка - но большинство шахматистов вряд ли обрадуется играть в шахматы под углом, а не просто на 2d доске, так что это скорее - для пары вечеров фана с друзьями. Плюс, русский перевод кривой - надписи даже не влезают в интерфейс, а после победы в кампании игра просто застревает, и приходится выходитть из партии вручную. В общем, очень сырой продукт с потенциалом стать хорошим развлечением на пару-тройку дней. Нужно ли оно вам?

Nice game and all it's cats and chess. But that's honestly all it is. Not really worth getting the deluxe edition. Normal game is probably worth 3 bucks it's a little expensive.

It’s a fun game, but there’s just one thing holding it back: there’s no time control in online mode, which means that, quite simply, your opponent doesn’t make a move in a position where the programme has calculated the best course of action, and you end up having to quit because it’s impossible to win. If this were fixed, it would be perfect; as it stands, playing online is practically impossible.

Its Chess with Cats. That is what you are Buying, no more, no less. That being said, Animations are pretty good and it is a Relaxing Game. If you like the idea of Cats being in Chess, then get this Game.

Dont buy this. Game is forcing random stalemates when there is no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stalemate. Very frustrating to restart to random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥...