Chess Knights: Viking Lands

It's okay, not great.

The game is very relaxing and simple to play. If you know the basics of chess you will love it.

Great, challenging and relaxing!

Excelente juego de estrategia y graficos bonitos Excelente videojuego 10/10 ⭐

I'ts ok. You're given a number of knights(depends on the level) to navigate the squares. You have to also avoid bishops, rooks and queens. Or sacrifice a knight to watch them both perish, opening a way for your remaining knights. You start on home squares, and your goal is to go to your captured allies. This is done by landing on them and letting them ride you. Then you have to take them back to a home square. The maps have different layouts, and the enemy pieces often move every turn. This game isn't that hard. The puzzles are short but many, meaning if you fail you can restart it quickly. There's also a take back move feature, which could make it easy if you used it(my pride wouldn't let me). The game should last around 1.5 hours(for the really smart) to 3 hours(for the.... less than smart). I think the average player would finish it in 2-2.25 hours. 2-3 dollars seems fair for the length of game.

I wonder why Minimol Games don't find themselves a more apt name, like Maniacs of Chess :) They keep on releasing chess-inspired, but not-quite chess games - and even more interestingly, although some of these games look super weird from a chess player's perspective, they actually feature perfectly valid puzzle mechanics. In Chess Knights: Viking Lands, the valiant Knights need to rescue their brethren from the mighty Norsemen (or Norsepieces?), moving strictly in L-shaped jumps. Upon this mechanic the game builds about 60 puzzles, some of them very simple, and a few are satisfyingly tough... or they would be, weren't for some of the usual shortcomings of the developer's games. One is that Minimol repeatedly uses 3D-navigable boards as an excuse to not set up a proper camera angle for the levels. As usual, their pieces are difficult to tell apart from some angles, so sometimes it's quite annoying to find the right view to contemplate the task at hand. The other is the undo. CK:VL uses a one-step undo feature, something I find rather pointless (the one-step part) but acceptable, as even one step solves 80% of the issues caused by a total lack of undo. Problem is, if you die with your last knight (often towards the end of a long level), the undo doesn't work. And finally, the number of knights per level. Sometimes you need to sacrifice some of your knights to be able to pass the level. Now, if you always sacrifice all but one knights, then 80% of the levels can be completed on autopilot. In several levels, you can keep all your knights, if you're savvy - but there are levels where you must sacrifice at least one, or even more. Then, most levels can be completed with 1 knight sacrificed. So, is this some kind of DIY difficulty setting? If it is, then please at least provide a PAR number for each level... I generally enjoyed the game, but the mentioned issues (especially the last one) made the experience more than a bit confusing, and sometimes annoying. The 4.8 hours of playtime included a full lunch when I left the game running (cca. 40 mins), and a properly working undo would have shaved off another hour or so, while making the overall experience much sweeter. At around 2 EUR, these games are absolutely worth their price - however I still wish they had a bit more polish.

Chess Knights: Viking Lands is a turn-based puzzle game based on chess movement. You must use your knights to navigate through the puzzle field, avoiding enemy bishops, rooks, and queens (if possible), rescue the captured pieces, and bring them back to your starting area. If you like puzzles where you need to find the path to the destination and avoid traps, then you'll probably like this game. I estimate the average person will take 1.5 to 2.5 hours to finish this game. Unfortunately, there is no tutorial explaining how the pieces move (it is assumed that you know the basic chess piece images and movements), so I will explain it here. The blue pieces with pointy tops are enemy bishops; they can move diagonally only. The blue pieces with flat tops and horns on the sides are enemy rooks; they can move orthogonally only (up, down, left, and right). The blue pieces with wings on the sides are enemy queens; they can move in any direction. Each of the enemy pieces can move any number of spaces in their allowed directions. However, they cannot cross gaps or barriers and they cannot move over (or land on) a "safe" tile. "Safe" tiles are tiles on which the enemy cannot capture you. I noticed two types of "safe" tiles. The first type is the type on which you start and the captured pieces reside. The second type looks like a wooden tile with a design on it; you'll be able to distinguish these because they look distinctly different from the other tiles. Your pieces are red knights. A knight's movement is L-shaped, in which you move two spaces in one direction and then one space in a perpendicular direction. The full list of potential movements for a knight is: 1) up two left one, 2) up two right one, 3) right two up one, 4) right two down one, 5) down two right one, 6) down two left one, 7) left two down one, and 8) left two up one. A knight can cross a gap or barrier as long as the tile on which it lands is not a gap or barrier. Unlike chess, you cannot capture enemy pieces. If an enemy is sitting on a tile, you cannot move there. One last thing to note is that you cannot skip your turn; you must move one of your knights when it is your turn. If you do not plan things properly, this can result in you being forced into a position in which you will be captured and will need to restart the puzzle (the puzzles are not long, so this really isn't a big deal). Overall, I found this to be a very enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours.

joguin bom, tive q me esforçar um pouco por causa do meu QI baixo mas foi de boa, n foi nada impossivel

the game didn't last too long, and some of the puzzles were annoying. but the game's not expensive and quite entertaining. you only control knights, but only a single knight has to survive at any time.

Cool themed chess puzzle game. Finished the main campaign in 2.5h.