
Destroy the enemy's king with your laser by moving and rotating mirrors and by strategically using the special abilities some pieces possess (Electricity, Portals etc.)! Play Multiplayer or Singleplayer (AI).
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The Prologue contains only a small fraction of the content present in the full game. Deflection is a strategy board game, inspired from the classic Laser Chess games and the famous board game Khet. Move and rotate different pieces to destroy the enemy with your laser! With a variety of pieces each having different advantages, abilities and weaknesses, use the one move you are allowed per turn to strategically bring you closer to victory. Enemy mirrors, Disruptors, Portals etc. can be used to your advantage! At the end of every turn, you must shoot your laser... be careful not to hit your own pieces! Strategy and rules To win, you have to destroy the enemy's king. Most pieces can move in all directions by one cell and rotate 90 degrees, which constitutes one move. Advanced pieces such as the Disruptor can disable and weaken nearby pieces, Splicers split your laser into two, and others like the Portals can be used to surprise your enemy from behind! Green pieces can be controlled by both players, which provides a new twist in your strategy. Play with friends Play with your friends in the same room (local multiplayer/same PC) or remotely in the online multiplayer game mode, to show them who is the best! Play and train against AI Your friends are unavailable or you want to practice? Don't worry, you can play against the AI in the same scenarios/maps. The tutorial mode will guide you through the rules and useful tactics.It is possible that the game launches in early access with no AI (feature complete except for the singleplayer mode).
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What a fun game this is. Give it a try for something unique and new.
Aynaları hareket ettirip döndürerek ve bazı parçaların sahip olduğu özel yetenekleri (Elektrik, Portallar vb.) stratejik olarak kullanarak düşmanın kralını lazerinizle yok edin! Çok Oyunculu veya Tek Oyunculu (AI) oynayın.
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An interesting board/puzzle game with reflecting lasers which suffers from lack of accessibility and a poorly chosen setting. Good: - the idea of not just reflecting a laser ray but making a chess-like board game from that is unique So-so: - music and sounds are cheap and have this strange 1980-s feel which is an unnecessary filter for the audience. I mean, I dislike that whole setting a lot, but I like the main game's idea. Should I play this game? - graphics - these look cheap and annyoing. It's even hard to tell pieces from each other with all the glow. I understand that the devs want to have this "neon sign" theme but it just distracts a lot from the reflection and spatial logic - rotating pieces - need something else instead of the "<" and ">" buttons at the top but I don't really know what. Maybe just a mouse drag? Or show arrows close to the piece? Bad: - tutorials are recorded videos which are more confusing than helpful. Only in the last 2 tutorials where you finally get a chance to try it out you start understanding something. Since the game's rules are so unusual I'd suggest a completely different approach here, the one mobile games use. In the first level just introduce the king and the cannon. In level 2 add 1 reflector. In level 3 add 1 more piece. Or even spend 3-4 levels with just 1 new piece, and show different puzzle-like positions where the player has to kill the enemy king in 1 turn or protect his own king from the enemy attack. I'd say, the full selection of pieces should become available only after 15 or so solved positions. - the UI looks cheap, with all the oversized fonts. The font itself is very annoying too. Okay, so, overall I like the core game's concept but the current "production values" (gfx, music, sound) are atrocious simply because of the unfortunate selection of the game's overall setting and the shoestring budget this game is being developed on. I dunno. I wouldn't buy it unless it's re-skinned into something more appropriate for a logic/board game. This neon stuff would be okay for an endless runner / racing / shooter game probably, not for chess. I guess they thought lasers associate with the 1980s culture but not for me, and I don't like it. [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]
チェスみたいなゲーム。完全な理屈ゲー。 盤面に敵・味方の駒があるので、これを回転したり移動させたりして、自分のレーザーが敵のKingに当たれば勝ち [h1]ルール[/h1] [list] [*]毎ターン、自分の駒の1つだけを回転or移動させることができる [*]自分のターン終了時に自分のTurretからレーザーが出る。これが敵のKingに当たれば勝ち。 [/list] [h1]駒[/h1] [list] [*][u][b]King[/b][/u]: 任意に1マス移動or90度回転可能。 任意の側面にレーザーが当たると破壊される。 [*][u][b]Turret[/b][/u]: 移動不可。90度回転のみ可能。 無敵。 [*][u][b]Reflector[/b][/u]: 任意に1マス移動or90度回転可能。 無防備な2面(ダイヤモンドの柄)にレーザーが当たると破壊される。 鏡面はレーザーを90度曲げる。 [*][u][b]Shifter[/b][/u]: 任意に1マス移動or90度回転可能。 破壊されない(無力化はされうる)。 鏡面はレーザーを90度曲げる。移動先がKing,Shifter以外なら位置を交換する。 [*][u][b]Sentry[/b][/u]: 任意に1マス移動or90度回転可能。 Disrupterによって無力化された後のみ破壊されうる。 壁面2面(ダイヤモンドの柄)はレーザーをブロックする。穴面2面はレーザーを貫通させる。 [*][u][b]Disrupter[/b][/u]: 任意に1マス移動or90度回転可能。 無防備な3面(ダイヤモンドの柄)にレーザーが当たると破壊される。 ダイヤモンド面にレーザーが当たると起動する。起動すると、半径1マス以内の駒を1ターンの間、無力化and弱化する(真っ黒になる)。無力化した駒は動けない。弱化した駒は任意の側面からレーザーで破壊される。 [/list] [h1]AIの知能は3手先の読みに限り爆強(Hard)[/h1] でも、このゲームは将棋とは比べ物にならないほどに1手詰めのパターンが多いので、「あっちに気を取られてる時に、こっちの受けをおろそかにした」というケースが多発して、1手詰をされるというケースが殆ど。将棋の1手詰は誰でも気づけるが、このゲームのレーザーがあっちこっち曲がりうるので読みの幅がかなり広くて1手詰でさえ中々読めない。 だから、駒を減らして徹底的に長期戦狙いに持ち込んだら、AIは知能の限界に達して同じ手の繰り返しをするので、これで敵の駒を1個1個減らしていって勝ちを狙える。 [h1]現状の問題点[/h1] [list] [*][u][b]千日手を防ぐルールがない[/b][/u]: なので、敵AIが何度も同じ手を繰り返してきたら、こちらが譲歩するしかなくなる。従って、こっちが不利、つまり、防戦一方になる。 [*][u][b]AIが選ぶ手は確定[/b][/u]: 何度戦っても同じ局面では、敵AIは同じ手を選ぶ。 なので、何度も何度も同じ局面を調べれば正解が見えてくる。 [*][u][b]各ターン毎の演出がダルい[/b][/u]: 各ターン終了時に、お互いのTurretがレーザーを射出する5秒ほどの演出を見なきゃいけないので、シンプルにダルい。例えると、3Dグラフィックのチェスでコマを動かす度に各駒が相手駒と戦う演出が入るぐらいのダルさ。 この演出は1,2秒にして欲しい。 [*]無力化された駒のグラフィックが見づらい。 無力化された駒が真っ黒になるせいで、その駒が一体何の駒かが分かりづらくなって、数手先の展開を読むときの支障になる。 [*]AIが思考中で止まってしまうバグ有り。 [*]オフラインソロで出来るステージは現状2つのみ。 [*]オンラインはフレンド招待制のみ。 つまり、とりあえずネット上の誰かと勝負というのが出来ない。 [*]グラフィックは超地味。 [/list] 囲碁・将棋・チェスのような思考力が試される人向けのゲーム。そういう人なら200円ぐらいの価値はあるかも。 それ以外の人には全く向いていない。
"Laser Chess (Prologue)" is not a game, it's an advertisement for a $12 game called "Chess with Lasers", that, unsurprisingly, was a flop. "Chess with Lasers" is a kind of PvP version of Chess meets Khet, but not quite as good as either. But it's not completely appropriate to discuss "Chess with Lasers" here because this is not that game, this is just an advertisement. This advertisement features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this didn't understand that. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 7 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.
Игра Laser Chess (Prologue) — это настоящая находка для любителей головоломок и стратегического мышления. С первого взгляда она может показаться простой, но под этой кажущейся легкостью скрывается глубокий и увлекательный геймплей. Основная механика, основанная на отражении лазерных лучей, гениально проста в освоении, но открывает безграничные возможности для тактических маневров. Каждый уровень представляет собой уникальную головоломку, требующую нестандартного подхода. Поначалу кажется, что всё сводится к банальному расположению зеркал, но со временем понимаешь, что нужно просчитывать ходы на несколько шагов вперед, предсказывая траекторию лучей и блокируя противника. Особо радует разнообразие элементов: тут и подвижные зеркала, и блокирующие поля, и даже телепорты, которые добавляют пикантности в уже непростые задачи. Визуальная составляющая игры тоже заслуживает похвалы. Минималистичный, но стильный дизайн создает приятную атмосферу, а звуковое сопровождение ненавязчиво дополняет игровой процесс. Prologue-версия, несмотря на свою краткость, отлично демонстрирует потенциал игры и оставляет желание увидеть полную, развернутую кампанию. Это отличный тренажер для ума, который способен увлечь как на короткую сессию, так и на долгие часы размышлений. Рекомендую всем, кто ищет что-то новое и нетривиальное в жанре головоломок.
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