CHEXS

cant connect to multiplayer server, comes up with an error and the game kinda sucks 2/10. off the top of my head i can think of 5 other types of chess i would rather play normal portal 3d pikmin chess, game i invented in table top simulator and chesskers a game you play when you don't have all the chess pieces and you replace them with checkers

A chess-themed board game with simultaneous moves and complex, non-obvious mechanic of attack resolution. It lacks polish and has bugs, so I'd only give it a 5/10. Pros: - some interesting rules about pieces movement and resolution of attacks (reminded me of Diplomacy board game with "support" order) Cons: - pretty basic graphics - camera controls are clunky (you need to push the cursor to the sides of the screen to rotate the camera, and you can also tilt the board with mouse wheel). Probably they should have used an orthographic camera instead of a perspective one, or at least make FOV smaller; and more ways to control the camera (with keys, and held right mouse button) would be better, also with zoom in/out option. - the rook becomes invulnerable if you give no orders to it (that's the game rule). But after you've given an order to a rook there is no way to clear that order, only change direction. There must be a way to clear orders of a piece (e.g. right-click or Escape (which currently just instantly exits the game which is awkward)?) - even after you've learnt the rules, the exact resolution of attacks remains somewhat arcane due to the sheer complexity. Typically, after seeing the results of a turn resolution phase, I spent 1-2 minutes just trying to understand why what happened, and still wasn't completely sure why things happened they did. Especially in the mid-game, when most of the pawns have met in the center of the board, the turns are messy. This also may be due to the fact that there are a lot of pieces present on the board at start. Had this been a TBS game where you produce new pieces (like in UniWar for Android/iOS, for example, or Advanced Wars for GameBoyAdvanced, then the board wouldn't be so much cluttered and outcomes of turns would be more transparent). - there is a rule that a piece can "support" another standing piece but sometimes you give that order (yellow arrow) and sometimes you don't (just a green arrow, indicating that the piece will attempt to move to the tile where the other piece is). It's all pretty confusing. I'm still not sure if there are bugs in the logic there, or the presentation is bugged, or I just didn't understand something. Also, one time I saw an enemy bishop move onto a tile which was already occupied by my bishop. They both "merged", and I could still select my white bishop on the tile while only the black one was visible. So, my bet is, there are still plenty of complex bugs in there. - resultion happens all at once, instead I'd prefer a ">>" button which would show each step separately (since all happens iteratively in the code anyway). - intitializing multiplayer always gives an error "Error connecting to server: creating user". The game has an interesting core idea (chess with Diplomacy-style combined attacks + simultaneous moves) but it all crumbles upon itself due to the extreme complexity of the turn resolution logic. Understanding the exact steps would be the main thing for the game to exist here, without that the game degrades into randomness. Still, even without clear understanding, I did win the few matches vs the AI, so the AI might not be smart enough here. The game has very few downloads, probably because it's Chess-themed while having too little to do with chess. This could be a popular game (as far as a TBS game could be) if they chose some other setting (robots? fantasy?) and maybe even switched to some cartoonish 2D graphics. With a friendly enough GUI design, I could even imagine this game getting somewhat popular on mobile, but that may be just well above this dev's resources. [table][tr][th][i]I'm a Steam curator, you can [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43946907-Friendly-Nerd/]follow me[/url][/i][/th][/tr][/table]

玩法比较“奇特”的国际象棋 不过玩下来只会觉得比较乱 并没有比较优秀的引导来教授一些玩法、窍门

EDIT (2020-09-30): THE MULTIPLAYER SERVER HAS BEEN FIXED!! You won't find many people online, so finding a random match isn't likely to be very successful. But private matches work flawlessly. If you have a friend who owns this game, or know someone who might like this game, you should have no trouble playing private matches against them. And this game really comes into its own when you are playing against a human. I kicked my brother's butt in our first test match, and (after he played the tutorial) he kicked my butt in our second match. There is real strategy in this game when you up against a thinking and learning human being. EDIT (2020-09-28): It's possible that they have fixed the multiplayer server. I can't confirm since I still haven't successfully loaded a multiplayer match yet. But I am not getting the error message I used to get. Instead it is endlessly searching for a multiplayer game, suggesting that perhaps the server is working fine now and that the problem now is that there isn't anyone else online to connect with. I will need to test this by seeing if I can start a private match between myself and a friend. It's a good game. It would be a great game if they just fixed the multiplayer server (they probably stopped supporting it due to a lack of business, I suspect not many people have been buying this game). It takes the basic pieces from chess, but the rules are so different as to make it a completely different game from chess. It is, fundamentally, a board game who's rules take full advantage of the fact that it is played on a computer and not a board (doing things like executing both players' turns simultaniously, a feat which would be impossible on a tabletop). I found it to be extremely enjoyable and, coupled with the spectacular backgrounds and entrancing music, very relaxing (just the thing to come home to after a hard day of work). The only problem with this game is the broken multiplayer server, and this game really needs working multiplayer. The AI is only so good and it doesn't get any better as you improve. Once you start beating the computer you will quickly lose any challenge if you can't get a human opponant. And you can't get a human opponant because there isn't a working multiplayer server. And they probably won't fix the multiplayer server until enough people start buying this game that they can afford to start supporting it again.

[h1]Chexs est une variation autour du jeu les échecs[/h1] Chexs reprend des éléments du jeu des échecs mais pas tout. Par exemple, le plateau, au lieu d’avoir une forme carré, il est héxagonnal. De même, les pièces se déplacent d’une façon différente. Enfin, tout le monde joue en même temps et la résolution des déplacements (et l’élimination de pièces adverses) se déroule simultanément. Par contre, rassurez vous, l’objectif n’a pas changé, il faut prendre le roi adverse. Ce jeu peut se jouer seul contre l’IA ou bien contre un autre adversaire humain à travers Internet, si je me rappelle bien. Globalement, c’est un excellent jeu indépendant qui va ravir tous ceux qui aiment les échecs et les jeux de stratégie en apportant une nouvelle variante et donc de nouveaux défis au jeu classique les échecs. [url=www.graal.fr/2016/11/14/test-chexs-la-version-pour-steam/]Pour découvrir tout ce que je raconte sur Chexs.[/url]

[h1]Описание:[/h1] Треш разновидность шахмат, с очередными ходами сразу всеми фигурами, движение фигур тоже отличается от оригинала и по сути тут только фигурки остались от шахмат. Задумка интересная, но ее исполнение очень очень очень плохое, как в визуальном плане, так и в плане геймплея. Не удалось полноценно сыграть даже одну партию =( [h1]Оценка: 1/10[/h1] [h1]Послесловие:[/h1] Если вам понравился этот обзор добро пожаловать в группу http://steamcommunity.com/groups/uojer - тут вы сможете увидеть рекомендованные мною игры, другие обзоры, а также просто пообщаться в хорошей компании

A "modification" of chess. To me it was very confusing and I really missed some difficultly levels because while I know how to play chess, I am not good at it so this was just unplayable to me. I guess it could be potentially interesting for someone who is decent at it.

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CHEXS is an attempt to migrate Chess to a 5 hex per side hex board instead of an 8x8 grid. Unsatisfied with screwing with the basic format of chess, they decided to turn it into a simultaneous resolution turn based strategy, because... actually there's no good reason to do that. There's bugs. Online multiplayer is dead. This isn't as good as Chess. You can play that for free in a web browser. There's huge online Chess tournaments that you can play in for free. Why bother paying for this?

If you are pro at regular 2D chess try hexagonal chess. However if you have no idea on how to play, get ready to get rekt by the hexchess AI bot xD