Usurper

算是一款有特色的国际象棋类rougelike，虽然整体内容不算多，但下棋固有的策略性结合了rougelike元素还是能保证一定的耐玩度，推荐给喜欢下棋的玩家。 游戏为棋子设定了召唤费用以及可召唤次数，每回合由一次可选的召唤棋子行动，以及一次必须进行的常规行动组成。下棋过程中，在一定的回合数后，棋盘会不断缩小（边界的棋子会被全部直接摧毁），这个设定较好的控制了游戏的时长。相较于另一款游戏衔尾蛇国王，我个人更喜欢这款游戏的设计。 作为轻度roguelike，游戏包含了一些针对牌库的随机升级项，以及数量不少的各类棋子（分为4种不同派系），当然也有能力各异的十几种boss。个人觉得平衡性还算不错，有一些运气成分，但主要还是下棋的策略。游戏也包含了10种难度阶梯，简单说就是每上升一难度，都会多一个初始设计好的诅咒效果。 最后，说一下这游戏的两大主要缺点： 1. 各种奇奇怪怪的小bug确实比较多，虽然大部分不太影响游玩。当然作者也在不断修复就是了。 2. 对手的AI很差，经常会作出非常愚蠢的行动，而且个人并不看好作者能较好的优化这游戏的AI。（不过从另一个角度，幸好电脑经常犯蠢，否则由于后几关对手的资源远高于玩家，估计玩起来会是噩梦。）

This game is beyond addicting, probably the best you can get as a chess enjoyer. While this roguelike deckbuilder version of chess seems to play very similarly to chess, you will find out that it is much more complex than what meets the eye, and requires a whole new level of strategy. The balancing isn't quite the best, however, it is still in its early phase, and likely to be improved through later updates.

The chess engine behind Usurper is a beast!! Tons of challenge, variety, and depth here. 10/10

As a casual chess player, this game almost feels tailor-made for me. Keeps the original competitive feel of the board game even with the roguelike mechanical changes. One of the most relaxing roguelikes I've ever played too. The opponent AI for the campaign seems to make significantly more blunders than the average chess AI, so professional chess players may not find the game particularly challenging, but I felt the difficulty level was perfect considering the increased complexity compared to the board game.

4/10 - game speed is slooooow even at the max you can speed it up with the game to 4 used 3rd party program to play even faster and make it bearable

The bgm is boring and the AI ​​is stupid Even though it could have been easily avoided, the AI ​​chose death.

If you are a fan of chess, this is a must play!

This game is a typical deck builder slash roguelike. The deck builder is selecting cards that represent chess pieces to place and roguelike to unlock new pieces with untypical chess moves. You can only place pieces next to your king, which forces you to move your king often to get new pieces close to the enemy king. I think this concept sounds cool on paper. Unfortunately, this game has a 4x animation speed ... it needs like a 16x. Soooo slow ... and the music is atrocious. The game seems to be locked to fullscreen at 60 fps. I really want to play games like this in windowed mode at a lower resolution. It needs more TLC on the UX. I feel like this sort of lazy/generic presentation of the game could really benefit from better visuals to draw more interest. But I feel really annoyed that I have to stare at a nearly completely static screen with the music muted. I got it in a bundle, but I don't know if it has legs for me. I really wish steam had a meh button, but I think there is enough to dislike here to give it a no.

Chess time-killer with good progression (for the first 8 levels) and its definitely more "chess-like" than Shotgun King (which is good game still) Gameplay loop is fun, upgrades and gambits bring variety, and factions are distinct and cool: - chess faction is mobile and nimble - shogi faction is defensive and slowly crawling towards center - tsar faction is all about area denial - and then there are egyptians, who are just confusing to play as and against (I feel like button to highlight attacked/defended squares would be cool) But at some point game started to feel grindy, so I think, I`ll move on for now. Also some boss fights are so BS, like one king can solo checkmate you if you are not ready.

This Is The Most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BELIEVABLY UNFAIR Game I Have Paid For AI: YOU PLAYED THAT MOVE? LET ME PLAY THE BEST MOVE IN ALL OF CHESS IT HAPPENS 50% OF THE TIME AND THE ENEMIES AS YOU PROGRESS IN CAMPAIGN ARE BASICALLY HORDES VS SINGLE UNIT YOU ALSO HAVE TO PROGRESS CAMPAIGN TO UNLOCK UNITS FOR MULTIPLAYER I HAVE SPENT TIME AND IM ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DONE IF I COULD REFUND THIS ♥♥♥♥ I WOULD I WISH I NEVER GOT THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME YOU ALSO HAVE NOW AY TO GET OTHER FACTIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN UNLESS YOU DO THE CAMPAIGN 3 BOSSES IN AND 15% OF ALL FACTIONS AVAILABLE AS THE AI IS IMPOSSIBLE AND THEY HAVE 15 DIFFERENT UNITS AS YOU ONLY HAVE THE STARTING ONES YOU HAVE TO GRIND L O S I N G OVER AND OVER TO GAIN XP I HAVE TO GRIND BY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LLLOOOSSSIIINNNGGG TO GAIN ADVANTAGES AND LVL 5 ISNT ENOUGH WHEN THE GRINDING TAKES 5-8 GAMES AND EACH GAME TAKES 10 MINUTES AND GETS LONGER EACH TIME YOU COMPLETE A STAGE OF THE CAMPIGN