
An exciting and fast-paced chess roguelite, full of ridiculous abilities! Explode your opponent's pieces, spawn queens all over the board, move twice in a row... But watch out for the bosses, who have crazy powers of their own!
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The Rookery offers all the army-building challenges and explosive potential of classic roguelikes with the timeless fun of chess. Your army will start meager but you will be offered many upgrades - will you go for a pawn-centric build, or try to get as many queens as possible? Will you go for the greedy options, preparing to destroy the final boss as long as you can sneak through the first act with some timely potions?
We have a very wide range of difficulty—the game can be played and won by someone who has never played chess before, while simultaneously posing a brutal challenge for accredited international masters!
Each run, craft an army - collect pieces, boosts, relics and consumables to prepare for your next fight!
Each run is different. As you complete runs, you'll unlock harder levels and crazier items!
Synergize all your upgrades together to destroy even the toughest bosses!
10 different bosses with powerful, unique abilities!
5 different starting relics, leading to a wide variety of play experiences!
Over a hundred unique items and buffs!
40 different difficulty levels, backed by a tough AI that will not hesitate to exploit your weaknesses!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
nice game
Some boards are very bad for certain relics. I would love a game mode which allowed me to choose between 2+ enemies on different boards, perhaps with additional factors to incentivize variety, like a minor in-match penalty when taking the 2nd option (e.g. stricter turn limit or other ascension modifiers). I'm deeply familiar with ChecksMate for Archipelago, a related chess roguelite. The Rookery is ideologically satisfying in a similar way, yet incredibly expansive. I believe I will treasure this addition to the human corpus of art. An example of a particularly difficult combination would be when your pawns start on the distal end of the board, and you have Cloning Vat with Power Pawns. In this circumstance, it's quite difficult to extract most pieces from behind your pawn wall.
Very fun chess game, the chess aspect with powerups and challenges is great, and there are allot of good diverse builds you can attempt. I wish the difficulty option was more like Hades where you would be able to select which debuffs you get. I think a cool one to add would be to have 2 kings, I'm not sure if the AI could handle that, but it handles allot of things with surprising cunning. The way the bosses are able to use their buffs is devestatingly intelligent.
Good game. Looking forward to more updates!
This is a rather silly game, all things considered. It's very quickly a game only loosely based on chess but it's an absolute blast. Chess Simp brought me here!
This game is great! Best chess rogulite i've played to date! Hope the devs keep updating and add some future content though as it can get a little repetitive.
Has great replayability, is special and fun.
Bei dem Spiel bekämpft man die Schwarzen.
best chess rogue-like.
From the creator of DRAWBACKCHESS, one of the greatest chess modes out there. This is such an amazing SINGLEPLAYER experience :) It's casual enough, but can be made as hard as you like. Lots of creativity Some things are kind of OP, but you don't have to pick it if you don't like being OP XD£ Fun Game, enjoyed it a lot so far
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