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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #84 | 4.320 | 4.320 |
| Artwork | #134 | 4.586 | 4.586 |
| Audio | #176 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Creativity | #305 | 4.300 | 4.300 |
| Narrative | #1107 | 3.402 | 3.402 |
Ranked from 353 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The gameplay revolves around a pocketwatch that Counts Down.
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A very well made game that combines chess, card building and also implementing the theme! Just a small issue, I can't close the music setting by clicking on the close button while playing, the ESC button works fine tho.
Holy moly
The game is incredibly well made and at a level of polish that I havn’t seen from a lot of entries.
My main gripe is the randomness of it all really kills pretty much all strategy one could have. Maybe I’m just bad at the game? But I struggled to come up with any sort of strategy that actually produced results. Whether it’s going all pawns, or using special pieces, etc it’s a really big struggle to juggle the card randomness AND the chess piece randomness WHILE dealing with the countdown. I know that’s kind of the point but it feels frustrating.
Regardless, the art and audio are such a good blend for a game like this. I really want to see this game with some balance reworks cause it looks so freaking cool. I think theres a lot of really cool ideas here. Keep it up.
Really great game. I can't believe this was made in 4 days!
The Tornado was so chaotic and satisfying. What a fun chess game! The base game was pretty easy, neat introduction. Well done!
Chess meets roguelike deckbuilder who would have thought.
This is incredibly fun! I especially love the visual detail of Death checking the pocketwatch while you're assembling your board small but it’s a fantastic touch.
5/5 for artwork
Great work!
Slay the spire anyone? I like chess, I love slay the spire, great combo!
Me:
"you think i fear death?"
Me five minutes later:
"yes. yes i do..."
really solid game. i love the card game part in it!
More frustrating than fun with this level of random movement, but im sure others disagree
Wowowow such a good Chess x Slay the spire game !!!
I think cards are (over-powered) when you are able to freeze time and opponent is not able to.
Death clock is not even a threat (I realized what it does after run 10 (50 fight/matches - it has 0 impact)
Insanely cool! Amazing job for such a small time. It looks, feels, and plays amazing! Had to hit them with that Seventh Seal - Inscryption - STS combo xD
Very fun game. Im a bit stupid for chess but thankfully I have the RNG of a god
Had a bunch of fun with the game! Will recommend to my chess-loving friends.
Really good roguelike system game, have some balatro vibes but with chess, well done!!
Game is so cool and so frustrating at the same time. Nudge should probably cost 0 and there should be aggressive nudge at 1.
Try summoner king strategy (it depends on RNG too) -> You Nudge king or later try
Necromancer King -> You use King, remove entire board of pieces, you have King == Queen movement, +2 blood on king capture, summon pawn on move: Then you try your king to solo move into check and start using card like attack, nudge and flee afterwards. Problem with this is that you have to get all of those elements probably
Stronger cards are:
1 ... tornado -> 1 card (easy to get), a lot of pawns -> they rush enemy down (like a truck)
2 ... Pawn advance
Strongest pieces:
1 ... pawn (cause card RNG reduction to 100%, 50%
2 ... king (with right cards)
Weak pieces:
1 ... queen ( cost a lot) - after you get factory (you gain 300gold very fast doent matter much cause you have more gold than store offer items)
2 ... knight (bad RNG, slow piece to rush enemy)
3 ... rook (might be useful fr long range starting position hit)
4 ... bishop (might be useful fr long range starting position hit - cost less than rook)
Going to recommend this to all of my chess-loving slay the spire buddies. What a great game!
Dude what do you mean you basically made: A deckbuilder system, chess AI, relics, a map, settings, etc in only 3 days???
My only critique is that I don't really like the randomness aspect.
Its kind of too good to be a game jam entry.
Insane.
Insane Man, the Gameplay and art are amazing
Insane work! Can't believe such a good idea was so well polished so quick. I really love the subtle animations too