

Captures
cosmic_dust · 2021 · Sports, Board Game, Strategy RPG, Turn-Based Strategy, Tactical RPG
PC
4 user reviews75% · 4
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About Captures
Captures is a chess-driven puzzle game. The objective is to capture the opponent's pieces.
While the chess pieces move according to the regular rules, the board itself varies from level to level. Boards from 3x3 to 8x8 are present in the game.
Also certain squares on the board might have "tile effects".
When you capture a piece on a cursed square, you lose your piece as well.
Pieces that land on a poisoned square will expire in 3 turns.
Pieces placed on the portal move to the other portal after black completes its turn.
Pieces that land on a tile with the random effect will transmute into another piece.
The levels are mostly beginner friendly. People who are looking for a challenge can attempt a built-in speedrun. In speedrun mod levels start one after another, and the player has to make fewer than 5 mistakes through out the whole run.
CONTROLS
-Drag & drop pieces.
-Click the restart button or press R key to restart the levels.
RULES
-All black pieces must be removed from the board to win the level.
-If a stalemate occurs, the level fails.
-If white loses all of their pieces the level fails. However, if white loses their last piece at the same time with the black, the level is completed.
-During a speed run, reseting a level counts as a mistake.
TIPS
-Random tips will be shown through out the game.
-CPU likes to trade pieces, take advantage of it!
While the chess pieces move according to the regular rules, the board itself varies from level to level. Boards from 3x3 to 8x8 are present in the game.
Also certain squares on the board might have "tile effects".
When you capture a piece on a cursed square, you lose your piece as well.
Pieces that land on a poisoned square will expire in 3 turns.
Pieces placed on the portal move to the other portal after black completes its turn.
Pieces that land on a tile with the random effect will transmute into another piece.The levels are mostly beginner friendly. People who are looking for a challenge can attempt a built-in speedrun. In speedrun mod levels start one after another, and the player has to make fewer than 5 mistakes through out the whole run.
CONTROLS
-Drag & drop pieces.
-Click the restart button or press R key to restart the levels.
RULES
-All black pieces must be removed from the board to win the level.
-If a stalemate occurs, the level fails.
-If white loses all of their pieces the level fails. However, if white loses their last piece at the same time with the black, the level is completed.
-During a speed run, reseting a level counts as a mistake.
TIPS
-Random tips will be shown through out the game.
-CPU likes to trade pieces, take advantage of it!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a pleasant chess-based puzzle game. The "adversary" behavior is too random (there is no AI implemented just some rules). The only important rule it should comply is the mandatory capture when the option exists. So I think that a smarter behavior with an AI would be better. Because of that, the puzzles are generally too easy but it's a good time waster.1 found this helpful
The game keeps you thinking about possible moves on an often more adventurous board than the original chess board: You have to deal with and use poisened fields, portals, death fields and more. It is a quite entertaining game and you can train for a real chess game by thinking about possible tactics to win. Even though, I also mention some flaws: The opponent moves its queen back and forth non-stop until I make an attacking move. This is not how chess is played. Furthermore, I have 3 knights left and 2 pawns and the opponent 1 pawn somewhere a bit below the middle of the board and the game is failed for me. Why? The reason cannot be a stalemate.1 found this helpful
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