I've just released SpookMate, a free spooky strategy game for one or two players that you can play in your browser (and on your phone).
It's a chess-style game on a haunted hex board. In the middle there's a cauldron, and the goal is to get your pumpking into it before your opponent does.
Each side has five pieces:
- Pumpking: steps one tile at a time. Lose it and you lose the game.
- Witch: hops two tiles along diagonals, but anything in the way blocks her.
- Ghost: glides up to three tiles and can float over one piece or gravestone.
- Skeleton: leaps to any tile exactly two steps away, over anything.
- Obelisk: never captures, but swaps places with any friendly piece on the board.
You win by getting your pumpking into the cauldron, capturing theirs, or leaving your opponent with no legal moves.
The twist is lightning. Tiles light up with a growing warning, then the bolt lands and destroys whatever's standing there. If it hits a pumpking, that side loses. On Hard, every strike is aimed at a piece, so you can't just hope it lands on empty ground.
You can play a friend on the same device or take on the AI. It has three difficulty levels, and Easy has no lightning at all.
Play it here: https://team2studio.itch.io/spookmate
I'd really like feedback, especially on whether Hard feels fair and whether the lightning is fun or just annoying. Thanks for taking a look!