There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!
Looks like enemy movements are deterministic, wonder how feasible it is to script this. Was able to increase my score by 4 points trying alternate lines near the end
I think I found a mini bug. Say I do a score of 10. Then I change board. Then I die with score < 10. I still have 10 for that board. It makes it easy to cheat the leaderboard :) Fun game!
There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...
That's awesome! I've been working on nearly this exact same idea as a prototype in Godot. Looks like my work is done! ;-)
So, Battle Chess 2026?
You’ve got me; I was very much a Battle Chess addict once upon a time…
Someone on the leaderboard got to 118? Would be fun to watch that replay.
Looks like enemy movements are deterministic, wonder how feasible it is to script this. Was able to increase my score by 4 points trying alternate lines near the end
This is cool!
One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.
Very nice. Enjoyed playing this. I know Chess, what is Roguelike here ?
In the most general terms, a procedurally generated world with permadeath. The term's inspired by Rogue[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)
Charming!
Reminds me of Alice:
https://folklore.org/Alice.html
(which I played manically until I managed _1_ perfect game of --- still have the box/disk....)
great game well done i could easily play this for far too long
Well done, Claude!
Very cool concept only annoying thing was I exited out of the instructions panel and then wanted to revisit it later but it seemed impossible
no bad but the blue and red characters, I have no idea what they are
This is really really awesome
I think I found a mini bug. Say I do a score of 10. Then I change board. Then I die with score < 10. I still have 10 for that board. It makes it easy to cheat the leaderboard :) Fun game!
What is Rogue-like about this?
You're right, it's just a puzzle game. Strange to use the theme of chess and change a queen into a prince too.
Pawnbarian is more chess-inspired than a chess themed, but actually rogue(lite)-like and very good.
https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian/
i played some minutes, cool
This is really cool, bookmarked it
This is really fun and intuitive. Pretty, too. What did you build it in?
Really fun !
This is so cool bro