Passant: A Chess Roguelike

Awesome chess game. 9/10.

Turning chess into a roguelite is a tough premise, because the skill difference in chess players is huge. If your game is 95% chess then grandmaster level players will breeze through your game without having to interact with your roguelike mechanics at all, and at that point they might aswell play chess. If the roguelike mechanics are so powerful that chess noobs can rely on them for support, and playing correct moves is no longer important, then your game becomes just about the metagame and the chess is trivialized. At the end of the day Passant suffers from the same issue, but until you've figured out all the mechanics it's actually a great game. You have to play decent chess in the early game, where material is equal, and you have to interact with roguelike mechanics because your opponents will have 70 points of material in the later game. Once you've figured out which items are good then it's just chess again though, so for me it's back to chess.com. All in all 7€ well spent though -- Passant is probably my favourite chess roguelite, on par with Usurper.

Terrible controls, uncreative roguelike elements, runs slow, and does not work as a good chess teaching game, save your money on something that somebody actually put care into.

It's chess roguelike, what more do you need. It's chess roguelike. Its chess balatro. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED???

What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ experience.

Can recommend. Needs more content (i.e. setups and scenarios), but the developer is creating it at the time of my writing and the setups already available are promising. (Mods by the community anyday?) Multiple conditions are a breath of fresh air compared to other chess roguelikes where checkmating is the only way to win leading to very exhausting campaigns. Passant instead manages to preseve the light-mooded arcade atmosphere which is a huge plus to people not playing chess on a regular basis outside of this.

A good time and probably about and in depth as you can go with a chess rouge-like, though once you get a board full of queens it gets pretty straight forward from there, just got to work on getting there.

hard

Great game but has cheese strats

Pretty fun! It does have some issues it feels at times (eg if YOU are in check you MUST get out of check, but if the COMPUTER is in check but can kamikaze you, they can do that). It's pretty easy to break the game it feels, but I do look forward to seeing what all else is added. It's fun and unique, so it gets a recommend from me.