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Pit Chess
by devwil
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Pit Chess
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Description
Pit Chess is a single-player puzzle game inspired by chess, as well as games like Drop7 and SpellTower.
How to Play
Capture pieces of the opposite color, and build up your multiplier for even more points!
Capturing a pawn will reduce your multiplier to 1x, but it will keep more pieces from falling into play.
Pieces will drop into the play area when you don’t capture a pawn, and if there aren’t enough open columns to accommodate the number of pieces that will fall (Pieces To Fall), it’s game over.
If you make a move without capturing any pieces, the Pieces To Fall number increases, making it harder to stay alive!
It helps to have a prior knowledge of chess, but the pieces don’t always move exactly the same way. However, bishops and knights do.
Pawns can only move up and to the right or left, and only to attack.
Rooks can only move horizontally.
Queens can do anything a rook or bishop can do.
Kings can move one space in any direction, or swap spaces with an adjacent piece of the same color.
Developer Updates
March 5, 2012 – Added Hard mode and a sound toggle. Slight change to tutorial.
March 4, 2012 – Fixed an obscure bug in the tutorial
FAQ
What is Pit Chess?
Pit Chess is a puzzle roguelike game developed by devwil that combines chess piece movement rules with dungeon-crawling elements.
How do you play Pit Chess?
In Pit Chess, you move a chess king across a dungeon-like board filled with enemies, where picking up pieces transforms your movement options to match that chess piece.
What kind of progression is in Pit Chess?
Pit Chess features stages where each board cleared unlocks the next, challenging the player to survive increasingly complex enemy layouts.
What are the main features of Pit Chess?
Pit Chess offers turn-based gameplay, chess piece transformations, procedurally generated levels, and strategic puzzle mechanics.
On what platform can you play Pit Chess?
Pit Chess can be played for free online on web browsers via Kongregate.
Comments
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cyberscythe
Apr. 14, 2012
Cool idea. It's fun to see old ideas mashed up with new ones.
I got here from a review on Play This Thing (http://playthisthing.com/pit-chess) which mentions this game with a similar idea: http://chesstris.com/actionchess/
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Weird! I'd never heard of that game.
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CraftyTurtle
Mar. 05, 2012
Interesting concept. I'd like to see better graphics - I was quite confused which piece was which. I don't think I saw a King. Sometimes a piece would not move the way it should. eg a rook would not take a piece to its side, a Queen would not move at all.
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Bkane05
Apr. 30, 2015
what even is this?
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Haylyn221
Mar. 05, 2012
on the leaderboad AWW YEAH!
Nicely done! :)
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puffle0
May. 24, 2015
... Maybe I can be on the best comment?
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