Chess With Idiots
Skeletons With Jobs · 2025 · Strategy, Roguelike, Roguelite, Board Game, Singleplayer
PC
8 user reviews88% · 8
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About Chess With Idiots
Outthink. Outlast. Outplay.
Step into a tactical roguelike where every battle is a puzzle, every move matters, and defeat is just the start of the story! Assemble your team of unique idiots and fight through 4 dangerous regions — each with its own enemies, gimmicks, and secrets... From goblin ambushes in dense forests to mind-bending traps in a forgotten library, every encounter forces you to adapt your strategy. Chess with Idiots is a turn based strategy roguelike. You control a self made team of 'Idiots' with the goal of completing as many runs as possible. A run starts at the forest and ends at the final boss on top of the volcano. Finishing a run allows you to either continue, or completely end your run. If you decide to continue, you restart at the forest but will notice that all the enemies have become a lot stronger...
DISCLAIMER! This game is not a variant of chess, it is it's own concept but influenced by the game of chess.
Step into a tactical roguelike where every battle is a puzzle, every move matters, and defeat is just the start of the story! Assemble your team of unique idiots and fight through 4 dangerous regions — each with its own enemies, gimmicks, and secrets... From goblin ambushes in dense forests to mind-bending traps in a forgotten library, every encounter forces you to adapt your strategy. Chess with Idiots is a turn based strategy roguelike. You control a self made team of 'Idiots' with the goal of completing as many runs as possible. A run starts at the forest and ends at the final boss on top of the volcano. Finishing a run allows you to either continue, or completely end your run. If you decide to continue, you restart at the forest but will notice that all the enemies have become a lot stronger...
Key Features
- Custom turn order - Determine the order of actions yourself and create the optimal strategy.
- Four Distinct Regions – Forest, Cave, Library, and Volcano — each with unique visuals, challenges, and bosses.
- Roguelike Progression – Unlock new characters, abilities, and strategies with each run.
- Dynamic Encounters – No two battles play out the same thanks to randomized enemy setups.
- Environmental Hazards – Lava flows, collapsing tiles, magical anomalies, and more keep the battlefield alive.
- Handcrafted 2D Art & Effects – Colorful environments and smooth animations bring each region to life.
DISCLAIMER! This game is not a variant of chess, it is it's own concept but influenced by the game of chess.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the free-to-play nature and engaging combo mechanics between units, though the game has a steep learning curve that discourages skipping the tutorial. Technical issues and bugs—including a tutorial blocking progression and numerous typos—detract from the experience, with players hoping for patches before returning.
Definitely one of the best games I've ever played, it's not really a chess game, but it still has mechanics that require you to think ahead to predict each character's next moves, it has a good soundtrack, just a few songs, which after 2-3 hours of playing straight can get a bit annoying, but still, the game is really good1 found this helpful
For a free game, I find it pretty fun. Went in without doing the tutorial (Personal preference, I just don't like tutorials) And it was a bit challenging. After playing for a few hours, I got the hang of it. I wanted to look up a guide, but no one has covered the game yet. The units you unlock can combo pretty good. The archer and goblin barrel guy lets me do 10 damage as early as the first turn.1 found this helpful
Hm, not sure this is just me, but I couldn't even do a single attack because Tutorial Guy blocked the Ready button in Level 1. Tried options but didn't find a solution. Also noticed lots of typos. Maybe I'll get back to this after some patches,
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