FireChess
JT · 2024 · Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Board Game, 2D, Top-Down
PC
Mostly Positive77% · 13
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →
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About FireChess
FireChess is a chess-like game that includes elements of economy and spell casting. Join the discord here: https://discord.gg/egAVCFzd9h
Players earn a base gold each turn. They earn additional gold when occupying gold spaces. Gold can be used to purchase pieces from the shop and place them on the board. Special mage pieces can move and use abilities but cannot capture. Double-clicking on a mage allows a player to use their special ability.
Fire Mage - Creates a fire in an unoccupied space. Pieces that move through fire are removed.
Frost Mage - Freezes a unit. Frozen pieces cannot move or use abilities during this time.
Fog Mage - Creates a 3x3 fog area. Pieces inside a fog space are invisible to opponents.
Kinetic - Force a piece to move over 1 space to any unoccupied square.
Waymaker - Spawns a portal tunnel. Pieces can move through the portals covering large distances. Pawns can even be promoted after moving through a portal to the last rank!
Swapper - Swaps 2 pieces. These can be ally or enemy pieces.
Scout - Can't capture but can't be taken either, except by kings. Scouts can clear fog and fire.
This game is in active development. We are a small team and any ideas or feedback are much appreciated! You can provide feedback via email: [email protected] or through our discord channel. More pieces to come!
Players earn a base gold each turn. They earn additional gold when occupying gold spaces. Gold can be used to purchase pieces from the shop and place them on the board. Special mage pieces can move and use abilities but cannot capture. Double-clicking on a mage allows a player to use their special ability.
Fire Mage - Creates a fire in an unoccupied space. Pieces that move through fire are removed.
Frost Mage - Freezes a unit. Frozen pieces cannot move or use abilities during this time.
Fog Mage - Creates a 3x3 fog area. Pieces inside a fog space are invisible to opponents.
Kinetic - Force a piece to move over 1 space to any unoccupied square.
Waymaker - Spawns a portal tunnel. Pieces can move through the portals covering large distances. Pawns can even be promoted after moving through a portal to the last rank!
Swapper - Swaps 2 pieces. These can be ally or enemy pieces.
Scout - Can't capture but can't be taken either, except by kings. Scouts can clear fog and fire.
This game is in active development. We are a small team and any ideas or feedback are much appreciated! You can provide feedback via email: [email protected] or through our discord channel. More pieces to come!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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A clever way to play chess.3 found this helpful
"FireChess" is one of those cases where an amateur developer thinks he can "fix" the "problem" with Chess by screwing up the rules and adding new pieces. Chess doesn't need to be fixed. Unsurprisingly, this was a complete and utter failure. Have we learned yet? Nope, I am quite sure this is not the last attempt at "fixing" Chess I'll come across. What do you do in the game? This is Chess, but worse. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. There's numerous 3D rendered Chess games on Steam already. On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this …3 found this helpful
Bro got whooped by a furry. LMAO1 found this helpful
A furry whooped my booty in this. Doo doo. Do NOT recommend!!!!!1 found this helpful
FireChess is an unfinished demo rather than a proper game because the AI doesn't move the chess units. You can always win in the game against AI. The introduction of new mage, gold digging and shopping in the game units aren't extraordinarily innovative. The 2D artwork is also too plain.
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