Chesstics

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• 17 SeptVersion 1.0.1MAS

Chesstics is a tactics battle on a chessboard. The pieces move as they do in chess, but they don't capture by touch: every unit has health, attack and armour, and a blow deals damage instead of taking a piece off the board. Whoever survives a melee strikes back – and since a blow only carries as far as the attacker's remaining strength, the first strike often decides the fight. SIX UNITS, EACH WITH A JOB • Pikemen advance like pawns and stop riders in their tracks • Archers shoot two to three squares without leaving their square • Rangers run the diagonals • Cavalry jumps like the knight • Queen and King stand behind them, as in chess Every unit is strong against some and weak against others, yet no attack is forbidden. Nothing is left to dice: every exchange can be read from the unit panels before you move. THE CAMPAIGN Fight the computer stage by stage. Every battle you win pays gold, and the shop turns it into cards from a deck of 69 that reshape your army. Over each stage lies one of 24 world rules, and it changes every time. A defeat ends the run. The stage is the difficulty: the higher you climb, the further ahead your opponent thinks. Your best runs are kept in a leaderboard on your Mac. ONLINE • Matchmaking pairs you with an opponent who has come just as far. Win and you climb a step; lose and you start over. • With friends: open a room with a five-character code, optionally with a world rule and starting gold to spend on cards before the first round. MADE WITH CARE • Pixel art on an isometric board that builds itself before every battle • Sound generated live; the music is four pieces of classical repertoire, synthesized from the score • Play with mouse, keyboard or gamepad – or type squares: A 1 picks up a unit, A 2 moves it • 14 languages • Your campaign saves itself, clock included No ads, no account, no tracking.

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