Chess Knights: Shinobi is an original turn-based puzzle game inspired by Chess. Become a Ninja in feudal Japan and prove your skills in the art of infiltration, sabotage, and assassination.
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Chess Knights: Shinobi is an original turn-based puzzle game inspired by Chess.
All pieces move like in a chess game. You play as a Shinobi Knight who needs to move stealthily through a game board full of Samurai enemies;
50 hand-crafted levels with increasing complexity (+ 10 secret "surreal" levels. Can you find them?);
Play in beautiful environments of ancient Japan in the Edo era;
Originally composed soundtracks;
A chess game without any chess. This is an original game concept for chess lovers and newcomers alike (you do not need to know any chess to play it).
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $2.99 | 70reviews | 83% | — | $5.4K |
| $3.99 | 53ratings | 63% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
So far, so good! Too short lived at the moment, but it was fun! Most of the levels are not that difficult at the beginning. I'd say, from level 19 onward it started to get actually challenging. I'd love at least one or two stages with levels like that. You've got the scaffolding right, now you just gotta focus on the puzzles.
Great game on Chess. It's casual (for the most part) except for a few levels where there's an insane difficulty spike. But if you keep fiddling around with the pieces you'll eventually stumble upon the solution. The good news is that the enemy doesn't think too deep (which is what keeps it feeling fun and more like a "game" rather than a real life serious event). I would definitely recommend this game to everyone who loves puzzles. There's a bit of puzzle elements involved in a very refreshing chess setting.
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Languages: English*, Korean*, Japanese**languages with full audio support
| $3.99 |
| 11ratings |
| 72% |
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| $2.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Really fun game, I like puzzles a lot, I like the concept of chess but not actual chess. Really like how they used chess mechanics on different board layouts. The theme was also really cool avoiding the guards as a ninja with a few bonus mechanics along the way on the board. Also contains some extra secret stages and achievements for bonus challenges.
cute so far
Really great minimalist puzzle game. The recent update tripled the content of an already great game, definitely worth the price here. Knights are my least favorite chess piece, but playing them as a ninja may have changed my view of them. The difficulty scales wonderfully right up until the last level which is very very hard, but just enough to where you feel accomplished when you beat it. The only negative I have here is you can't pan the camera, only zoom and rotate. Other than that this is a standout of the minimalist puzzle genre. Edit: The developer has fixed some bugs and given the community a much-needed hint about the secret achievement, so props to him as well!
Um jogo muito bom, e com muitas melhorias se comparado ao jogo anterior (que também é bom). É um jogo de puzzle baseado no xadrez, onde você deve concluir as fases resgatando unidades capturadas ou apenas chegando a um determinado ponto. Você controla unidades que se movimentam como a peça do cavalo, com movimentos em "L". Este jogo tem novas mecânicas se comparados ao jogo anterior ("Chess Knights: Viking Lands"), como arbustos para se esconder e plataformas de teleporte, fases apenas de passar pelos inimigos sem perder todas as unidades, sem precisar resgatar outras; cinemáticas e gráficos simples mas muito bem feitos (tá linda a coisa). Pelo preço proposto, vale cada centavo :) Lembre-se apenas que esse jogo ainda está em acesso antecipado, então ainda faltam fases a serem acrescentadas e bugs a serem corrigidos.
整体很不错，但没法一下子看清敌对棋子是什么子，中偏好评
I loved this game, very challenging! I felt like a real shinobi dodging the other characters (pieces) and trying to reach the goals. Nice illumination and mood in general. I really recommend!!! Congrats to the developers!
这家制作组做了很多跳马游戏，这是唯一一个能让我一口气打通关的，可见美术和异域风情的重要性。主线就是一群忍者跑去刺杀将军，途经野外（樱花道）、民间市场、将军府——你别说这东方风格的建模还真不错，和西洋象棋结合起来竟然不违和。 正常关卡棋子都是西洋象棋，隐藏关卡棋子都是日本将棋，飞和角分别对应车和象，金将和银将得额外记一下，金将是两个斜后方不能走的国王，银将是左、右、正后方不能走的国王。换句话说：以金将、银将为中心的3×3格子的后两排是互补的，第一排是一样的。 有些关卡不得不牺牲好多同志来保证至少有一人通过，玩得比较肉疼，就为了刺杀一个将军死那么多人，值得吗？我挺好奇每个关卡最少需要牺牲几人，制作组应该标注一下，然后让高手研究把伤亡率降到最低的策略。 这个游戏建议在看收集品的时候切换成日语看一下，结合一下能看懂的几个汉字可以更好地理解文本。像手里剑、军扇铁扇什么的英文版都是直接取日语发音，根本看不懂，但是切换成日文版你就可以直接读汉字。 缺点：画面太黑了，就算这是个潜行游戏，也完全可以把画面做成能让玩家看清楚画面的黑夜。这家制作组好几个游戏都有这种问题，费眼或者伤眼。 隐藏成就彩蛋非常amazing，[spoiler] 完全想不到30关那个灯光乱闪的房间是可以进去的，进入方法不是点击窗户，而是旋转屏幕。[/spoiler]
gute puzzles, aber zu einfach / einseitig / kurz
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