Chesstria

Merijn Monfils

Chesstria is a unique chess roguelite that blends the original chess rules with consumables, artifacts, and banners. Face unique boss banners, run the Gauntlet, and discover unique events. Fight 1v1 against your friend, or compete on the daily leaderboard. Or just solve some complex puzzles!

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Overview

Standard chess tactics won't save you here. Chesstria takes the classic game and bends the rules, adding roguelite elements that introduce new layers of strategy. Consume the consumables, acquire artifacts, and reign victorious with your kingdoms banner. Master your economy, position and outsmart the opposing kings. Begin the game by setting up your position, see the upcoming battles and strategize your pieces into an effective layout.

Have two kings? Remove tiles? Wololo the enemies pieces? This, and many more unique effects that change the original game into complex but straight forward strategy game. Muster your pieces and rally behind your banner!

Features

  • AI difficulty scaling: Pawn, Rook and Queen tiers, combined with different personalities and multiple layouts, plus custom boss layouts. The AI scales with consumables, artifacts and custom board positions and will use every advantage it has against you.

  • Setup your position: Fully customize your opening against the opponent, keep the promotions you've made and lose the pieces lost in battle.

  • 10+ unique consumables: Single use effects that drastically swing the game and change the calculations.

  • 40+ artifacts: Passive effects that either aid an archetype or enhance the gameplay.

  • 20+ player banners: Rally behind your bonuses, or sacrifice it if you're in dire need of help.

  • 10+ boss banners: Clash against the mighty kingdoms and their unique effects.

  • Run the Gauntlet: Make each new run increasingly more complex with additional rules.

  • Discover unique events: Encounter dilemmas, puzzles and more special events.

Puzzles!

Use all the unique elements of Chesstria to solve several complex puzzles. Featuring custom board dimensions, positions and all items (banners, artifacts and consumables). See if you can work your way through each of the puzzles!

Multiplayer

Currently there are two custom gamemodes for a PvP experience. Fight in feudalism mode, best of three, deploy, fight, shop and then repeat! Best out of three! Or play with a friend in a custom configurable 1v1, and see who reigns supreme.

Daily Run

All RNG is set on a fixed seed, see if you can compete for the top position on the leaderboard. Plenty of choices, but what is the best for the highest score? 

Genres

CasualIndieRPGStrategy

Ways to play

  • Single-player
  • Multiplayer
  • PvP

Weak PC? It still plays

Play Chesstria on a weak PC

Chesstria needs at least 2 GB of RAM. Cloud PC is a Windows computer with a strong GPU in the cloud. You control it from your laptop, phone or desktop.

1

Turn on Cloud PC

Log in to Thinkmay and start your machine. You get a Windows desktop of your own.

2

Install the game

Install Chesstria from Steam as you would at home.

3

Play on any device

Play on a laptop, phone or desktop. Controllers and microphones work.

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