
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
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The chess roguelike. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.

Defeat opponents of ever increasing difficulty to escape from the dungeon.
Build your chess army. Start with just a few figures and recruit more as you go.
Collect cards to turn the tides of the battle.
Defeat each enemy Queen on your way to freedom.


Play cards to bend the rules of the game in your favour and win against unbeatable opponents.

Spend mana to play cards such as:
Summon a Shape Shifter that transforms into a random figure each turn.
Start a zombie outbreak - zombie figures do not care for the colour and attack white or black equally.
Launch an ICBM nuke.
Build walls and traps.
Launch a propaganda campaign to turn enemy figures into your colour.
And many others!


To win you either need to get smarter or to get stronger.
With every game you accumulate mana to buy new cards and chess pieces that stay with you in each new run. Maybe you would even get a chance at escaping from the dungeon.

Some of your upgrades will persist between runs, helping you to get closer and closer to the exit. Some will reset with each new run, making each new game unique.

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Languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese
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Good game. It's 60% roguelike 40% chess, if that makes sense. If you're good at chess, you'll definitely use it, but if not, I don't think it's a problem, the "hard" part of the game is not the chess part. I haven't experienced any crashes or anything, I think that was an old issue. I found the game hard, but rewarding. I am playing it in "Normal", where you lose the pieces for the entire run if you lose them in a round. It basically changes the game entirely. Normal trades from chess become something to avoid completely. You can disable this, but I think it's what makes the game tick. My only problem for the game right now is the "storm". It's a bit hard to strategize when I have no idea when it's coming, and it has lost me a couple of runs not to see it coming. It's the only thing I would change. The rest is fine as it is.
Визуальный стиль, музыка, атмосфера - всё это выполнено с должным вкусом. Баланс карт... если играешь на победу, то тебе нужно искать 6-7 специальных карт, остальное мусор. Играешь просто чтобы поиграть поразнообразнее? Всё равно есть карты, которые мегамусорные и которые вряд ли ты используешь, но механика с картами интересная. А теперь к минусам: Баги, грёбаные баги, они преследуют меня в каждой игре, они пришли за мной и в эту игру. Не мог открыть концовку с собакой, после того как подарил 3 подарка. Диалогов больше нет, концовки нет. Ну подумал, может надо в диалогах более нормально общаться было. Пошел на 2-ой сейв, всё с самого начала, всем подарил подарки, поотвечал на диалоги, но есть одно но... Проклятье снять нельзя, потому что тебе рандомно не падает нужная реликвия, точнее сказать, вообще реликвии не падают. Сначала думаешь, рандом какой-то, но после сыгранных 100 партий понимаешь, что на вряд ли это рандом, а скорее всего очередной баг. А потом решил погуглить как всё-таки концовки открывать, ну, кроме того, что подарить 3 подарка, ничего больше не написано, а подарки были подарены всем, так что в 1-ом сейве я тоже попался на баг. Самой игре придать бы какой-нибудь сложности, тот же Монарх, он очень легкий, хотя считается одним из последних "боссов". Ферзи кровавой королевы взрываются ядеркой и не переходят на другие фигуры(очередной баг?), что делают партию очень легкой. В идеале бы полностью перебалансить игру или добавить уровни сложности(там есть какой-то уровень сложности вообще для новичков, где фигуры воскрешаются, но это не то)+добавить логику, что вражеские фигуры видят, что мой персонаж например под Бронёй и не будет действовать как 5-илетний школьник, жертвуя собой, пытаясь сломать фигуру... вот тогда будет замечательно.
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Интересный вариант шахмат соединенный с карточными баффами. Может спокойно увлечь на несколько часов, играя на интерес игрока, либо на желании победить. Единственное, на момент написания отзыва, есть регулярный вылет после часа игры.
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.
great fun game
the dance monarch is such a fu**ing s**t that should not exist in a chess game
Excellent Roguelite of chess. One of my favourite top 5 games of all time now.
I didn't know I was that bad at chess, but it's still fun.
Another chess roguelike, this time a fusion between balatro and chess. The execution of this concept has not worked unfortunately, and the game is too tough around the edges. The two main issues are the game quickly becoming very repetitive and the walls closing in with a warning that comes too late leading to cheap losses.
YES YES MY QUEEN!!!
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