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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #87 | 3.863 | 3.863 |
| Audio | #156 | 3.698 | 3.698 |
| Enjoyment | #299 | 3.698 | 3.698 |
| Overall | #300 | 3.552 | 3.552 |
| Visuals | #364 | 3.917 | 3.917 |
| Innovation | #389 | 3.351 | 3.351 |
| Theme | #1122 | 2.785 | 2.785 |
Ranked from 205 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The King plays chess to earn his coin—and indulge in new sweets
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
I didn’t use any asset packs or third-party resources—everything was made from scratch. I drew inspiration from the design of Balatro and Gambonanza
How many people worked on the game?1
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This is an amazing game! I can see myself spending hours on this!
If you’re still into it, adding CHARK to your Steam wishlist would really help me out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371170/CHARK/
Amazing work well done, so well polished and clean gameplay, as well as intuitive to pick up and play
Most intense game of chess I've ever played. Great idea and great execution, well done.
Amazing work dude!
Loved it! And I wish you success with the publisher/release
Great idea!
I might be too much of a chess nerd, but I found myself wishing I would swap turns with the opponent rather than have 2 moves and then all their pieces move.
I'm not sure what the score at least x number of poker chips feature was adding to the game, if it's not a critical aspect I recommend simplifying it.
More transparency on what buying the piece cards does and more cookie types might help too.
Very nice work, felt polished and complete!
ALmost perfectt
Absolutely amazing game! Chess balatro goes hard
Really clean presentation, looks and sounds amazing for a solo game in only a week.
Gameplay is interesting but personally found parts of it a little confusing/unintuitive at times, perhaps because I'm unfamiliar with Balatro. The discard button seems to subtract 2 discards, not sure if that's a bug, but was pretty rough when I was thrown into the odd board where almost everything I could reach with both my draws was protected haha. Interesting take though, and can't stress how nice the presentation is given the limited time and solo dev :)
A lot of fun! Are you thinking about making this into a full game? I'd love to play that.
Great little game!
Such an incredibly well made game! A good replacement for those that are tired of Balatro. Good job! 🙌
I absolutely love chess, and finally there's an awesome chess roguelike! Everything else on Steam is complete garbage, so I'm really looking forward to the full version. Best of luck to you - giving this the maximum score!