Yes, My Queen

Demoを触った感じ「これこれこういうの遊びたかったんよ」という感じだったので大型セールを待たず購入。 詳しいレビューはまた後日書ければと思いますが、 ファミコンでキャッスルクエストとか好きだった層には刺さると思います。（海外NESのCastleQuestはアクションゲームらしいです。あくまで日本のバトルチェス的なキャッスルクエストの話ね。） 他の人もすでに書いている通り、永続アップグレードとプレイ中の強化のポイントが共通なのが問題点で、そのせいでプレイ開始からしばらくの間作業的にポイント稼ぎが発生するかなと気になりますが全体的なゲームプレイ体験は割と良好だと思います。 ベースはあくまでチェスなのでチェスの知識がある程度あると良いです。 カードを使うことで相手の特定駒を１ターン動けなくしてから近づいて取るとかカードを使うことで様々ないかさまめいたことができるので、まさに私のプレイしたかった感じのバトルチェスですこれ。 まだあまり深くプレイしていないので、肩透かしをくらう可能性もまだあるのですが開発も続いているようなので大きな期待を込めておすすめします。 開発陣への要望としては、上記ポイントの分離（プレイ内の進捗に応じてアップグレードのポイントが別途溜まる形式への変更）が第一ですね。あとはカードを複数使ってのシナジー的な面白効果が発生しやすいカードがあると嬉しいですがまだやりこんでいないのでシナジーはすでにあるのかもしれません。

Este juego es básicamente jugar ajedrez con tu primo pequeño de 10 años, que empieza a crear sus propias reglas y cambia el juego demasiado. Lo cual está genial: es divertido, además de que en las peleas contra jefes sí hay un cierto grado de dificultad que te obliga no solo a usar cartas, sino también a pensar en estrategias.

You'll waste your first 2-3 hours just to unlock your chess board pieces and other permanent upgrades. Then the game starts. That's also why people drop the game when they encounter 3rd boss (I got this from achievement percentages), a meaningless grind suddenly roadblocking your gameplay. What happens after you finish the grind part and start gameplay? Generic experience in between boss battles, and boss battles are pretty deck and luck (your pawns turning into other pieces permanent upgrade) heavy. Worst part is the amount of bugs I encountered. Definitely don't click too fast when playing as if you are playing blitz, there were times where my piece was bugged and I couldn't move even when choosing a move but opponent still took turns. There was time where my piece got taken by my opponent but didn't disappear and opponent's piece and and my piece was stacked on top of same tile but I couldn't move it and lost turn if tried. Also dog boss battle has bugs where I move and enter my king to exit door several times and it even stays there for a whole turn sometimes but game doesn't accept it and pushes the king out repeatedly, creating an unwinnable encounter. With all the bugs and grind I can't in good faith recommend the game. Visuals look cute though. Another point, there is a affection mini-game for bosses you encounter. Even if you give them all gift they want and exhaust their dialogues and get few crowns, you don't get the achievement, I'm assuming the requirements are steep. After this you and they never talk to each other, effectively locking you out of achievements if you care about that.

Игра очень интересная, но есть несколько проблем в выборе сложности, в игре два режима с потерей фигур после партии и с сохранением, очень большая разница ведь с потерей фигур, вы больше думаете и это интересно, но в начале игры это просто такая душниловка, в каждой партии бот как суицидник тратит все свои ресурсы чтобы съесть ваши несчастные пешки, а без фулл стака фигур на боссах это просто нечто, благо последние боссы больше рофельные чем сложные, с другой стороны сохранение фигур, это чистейший чилл гейм, а когда у вас миллион ресурсов, карт и баффов, вы последнюю королеву выносите с ноги И приходится решать вы сегодня хотите обоссать ребенка или чтобы вас обоссали

It’s essentially chess combined with deck-building mechanics. Cards grant your pieces special properties. However the game is no less challenging than classic chess.

This game is really good, it makes good use of its mechanics and the chess rules. I also want to be stepped on by a queen but anyways, 7/10

Despite leaving a bad review, I consider that the game offers some nice play time for 3 or 4 hours as much; I love roguelike table top based games , and to be honest, is the first time I'm left as "Oh, so is this it?" , there's a moment when this roguelite game feels as way too little, once you start getting all the powerful upgrades and the experience is doing the same boards over and over again. Positive things: The game is super easy to understand and the story offers interesting details Really interesting encounters and mechanics Negative things: It lacks the core of a roguelike/lite game, something different each time you play it after some hours Not enough cards, in the end I am unsure of how much are there, but I found useful 7 cards of the 20 out there Lacks something to engage the player, once you unlock all the chessboard, the only thing you can get are upgrades after the bosses... and to get those, you need to repeat the same games over and over again with almost the same pieces. The game feels good tho, and play some chess on this fun way is really nice! But it needs some work on it definitely, more variety in chess boards to offer new challenges.

I think that the powers and levels in this game are so swingy that it's hard to recommend this. You really have to like chess and trying to farm the best powers to make progress. Some will like it, but it's a very specific niche.

As someone who really enjoys chess, this game was quite a blast to play. It was fun playing chess with weird strategies and I absolutely loved every boss encounter in the game. All of the characters had really sweet personalities and I always looked forward to the next interaction with them and their boss fights. I completed all of the character endings and I think that's where one issue does become obvious. That is that the game does begin to be a bit repetitive near the end. It is helped quite a bit by the Rush option which I encourage using a lot since the levels between bosses can feel tedious when you've already beaten them a lot of times. My last few runs were mostly just mindless on the gameplay side and I stuck with it solely for the excellent character writing that I was hooked on. Despite that, I do think this game deserves way more attention and love and it's absolutely worth the time if you enjoy chess and short-and-sweet narratives.