Waves of Chess

Such a cool concept; a roguelike chess. There's a whole new strategy you need to play for this and it's a good amount of fun. Definitely worth the money for the amount of entertainment you get from it. I'm going for the top of the leaderboard!

Bought this game after seeing a friend play it and its instantly addicting, the setting, music, color schemes are all amazing and for most games I just turn the music down and play my own. Its really easy to understand if youve ever played chess and ive maybe played a couple dozen matches against friends my whole life. the souls like aspect makes me want to grind for higher and higher scores and upon getting the game and opening for the first time I couldnt get off for a couple hours. only thing I would change is even though the music is good im obviously biased toward my own taste and prefer something that matches the dark space vibe.

Exactly what I've been looking for from a chess roguelike. I find a lot of paralor game roguelikes go the Balatro route and use chess pieces and movement to play a completely different game, when really i just want to play chess. Waves of Chess however is still fundamentally chess, but with a wave based structure and a handful of fun gimmicks. My only criticism is while the isometric view is very aesthetically pleasing, it does make playing chess quite a bit harder. Overall a great game though!

Wave's of Chess is one of those games where its one core idea, very well polished at a low enough price point to be worth the investment. Basically, you start the game with a full chess board and the opponent has a couple of pieces. Kill the king to carry your surviving board into the next wave against a slightly bigger army. Eventually, your opponent starts replacing pawns with higher tier pieces and you try to survive as long as you can. Between waves you can spend earned credits to revive lost pieces. I suck at chess, but I've been able to make decent progress. Especially early on, the AI is particularly weak and will make some intentionally bad or random moves. This is both a blessing and a curse... many boards are little more than a puzzle... where you always play the same set of moves and always get the same win. Yet, the predictability is less exciting to play... especially on subsequent loops. So, the random stupidity can often ruin your plan. This isn't good or bad, just is. Really, that's the biggest thing holding the experience back for me... predictability. It feels like the "Right way to play" is to repeat the same moves on early boards and survive long enough to promote some pawns to queen. It's the only way that you can generate a stronger board than the original state... which helps massively in the later game. This makes me crave a more randomized set of boards where the AI doesn't follow a traditional chess board. If, lets say the knights and castles swapped on a board, that'd leave a different set of openings and threats for you to conquer. If you've got 2 or 3 possible board states per wave it'd be harder to just be machine. The game does also have strange economy where I have 40 revive points saved up, but nothing to spend them on. I keep wishing that I could spend them on SOMETHING (Reviving the queens, promoting pieces, extra moves/powers, swapping start locations, etc). Some sort of a tactical choice that eats up those point so I'm more likely to lose from going broke instead of having loads of points and just losing. (In truth, I almost want to see a variation of this with Shogi where every piece has a unique promotion state) On the core idea of chess with waves this absolutely works. It's a cool idea, well implemented, and does what it says on the store page. It's well worth the price of admission if you like chess and want your strategies tickled in a new way.

simple concept great execution, fun challenge to test your chess knowledge in a very different context from regular play.

I've never really been into Chess before, but I got recommended to get this game and decided because it was cheap I would get it, and I love it, it's visually beautiful and vibrant, the sounds are smoothing and I've learned how to get better at Chess because of it, fully recommend it!

I never knew how to play chess till i played this. Now its helping me understand the game, and i find this to be more fun than traditional chess. dev is based, i give it a thumbs up! plus the music is good ;)

It's such a unique take on a classic game, I've found my time playing it really enjoyable, each time I play my main goal is to get every pawn to the opposite side so I can just have an entire front row of queens