Passant: A Chess Roguelike

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.

I love chess, and I am roughly a 1000 elo player, so I thought this game would be really fun. IT IS NOT REALLY FUN. Imagine telling a new player to chess your opponent is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hikaru himself, how would that be fair or fun? The only three difficulties are Beginner, Normal and Challenge, and you would think Chellenge is what I am refering to, but this bot on normal plays like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2000+ elo, how is this supposed to be fun??? I think there should be ELO SETTINGS for the bot you can adjust to fit your playing style, and if you want more challenge, increase it, like chess.com does. I want to like this game cause I love chess, but if it is always like this I may never be able to get into it for real

atomic chess go boom

Not a fan. I guess it's a good example of the fact that you can't just ape Balatro but use another game instead of Poker and be fine. First off, it's ugly. I don't have a word to describe it, but UI looks very basic, and the pieces, oh god, instead of going for any established sort of figure presentations, the dev went for 3d models, and i'm sorry, when i can't tell a pawn from a bishop at a glance you may have a problem.

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.

fun if you like chess

It seems fairly clear that the game of choice being Chess introduced a terrible difficulty in MAKING this game. It's already pretty hard to make a normal chess AI bot, so how does the game account for you being able to put landmines where pieces on it die, put a new piece on random spots on the board, and get super-pieces that move basically anywhere? It doesn't. I do think the ideas behind the roguelite progression is great; good balance of items that let you build money early, take risks, remove risks with one-use items, and scale so hard lategame that you become an unbeatable god. Perhaps those ideas would work much better on a much simpler game to work with. Ultimately, the difficult nature of the base game made the AI too exploitable and therefore much easier for the player to win than it should be.

There are horses but no goats. Horses aren't even that good goats are much better they have cute bleats. I'd even take a sheep but no, only stupid horsies ] :( (1/10 because I'd feel bad for giving it a 0/10)