Chess Knights: High Noon
Minimol Games · 2020 · Western, Turn-Based Tactics, Puzzle, Shoot 'Em Up, Board Game
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Mostly Positive77% · 35 📉 Recent reviews down 62%
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About Chess Knights: High Noon
✦ AI summary
Move your chess Knights across puzzle boards to outmaneuver and eliminate enemy pieces in Wild West duels. This original puzzle game blends chess mechanics with gunslinger showdowns, featuring a story campaign against notorious outlaws and 100+ hand-crafted duel challenges set to a classic Western soundtrack.
You tell ‘em I’m coming… and Hell’s coming with me!
Fast draw your gun in kill-or-be-killed duels.
Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.
This is an original puzzle game inspired by chess. Using chess Knights, you need to move through the board until you reach the squares where you can shoot and kill other pieces. Kill everyone in your way and duel against the Wanted Ones to become a Legendary gunslinger.
Featuring:
- Story Mode: Hunt and kill the deadliest gunslingers in the Old West. Each narrative features 15 hand-crafted levels with increasing complexity - and a kill-or-be-killed duel in the end!
- Duel Mode Face 100+ hand-crafted Duel Puzzles and prove yourself to be a legendary gunslinger.
- Original soundtrack inspired by classical Western movies.
- All pieces move like in a chess game, but the objective is to use your Knights to kill the other pieces that are in your way.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Unfortunately Chess Knights: High Noon suffers from severe input issues. Getting the game to recognise that the mouse is over a particular tile, before it will accept clicks is a constant problem which can take several seconds per tile. Now if this was entirely a 'slow' turn based puzzle this flaw could possibly be overlooked, however the duel mode expects rapid selection of tiles before a very short timer expires. I've tried playing with vsync on and off in case that made a difference to the input issues, but it didn't help. Not recommended with these input issues, which I doubt will ever be fixed for a game that's approaching five years since release.10 found this helpful
[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b] Chess Knights: High Noon is a Unity Asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Minimol Games, took the [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/historic/polygon-western-low-poly-3d-art-by-synty-112212]Polygon Western - Low Poly 3D Art Pack[/url] Unity Store tutorial/demo/game asset pack from the real developers, Synty Studios, changed the name, and dumped the result onto Steam. They're attempting to scam people into buying this, so they can get your money for someone else's work. It gets worse... "Polygon Western - Low Poly 3D Art Pack" has also been shamelessly dumped on Steam by other asset flippers apart from Minimol Games: [list] [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442380]Book of Shadows[/url]", asset flipped by Enoops [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/862990]Survive The West[/url]", asset flipped by Deverinos [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/848010]Find Your Way[/url]", asset flipped by LillyWelland Inc./OnBlind [/list] Take a look for yourself... these are all [i]exactly the same game![/i] The deve…4 found this helpful
Just doesn't work or run.
Nett gemacht, aber nicht besonders gut programmiert.
Has big performance issues It's rare to see a game that when focused makes CPU go from 45°C to 80/90°C (and even throttling) immediately, and when alt-tabbed, goes to normal temperature in a few seconds. Don't expect "graphics" settings nor smooth gameplay. I know that I should show my specs here or something, so I'll say that I can run Cyberpunk2077 on around "recommended" settings. And let's be honest here. This game isn't close to CP2077... or maybe it is - on a performance/optimization field.
Great game
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