Piecebreaker

Piecebreaker is a tactical chess roguelike about building a strange, rule-bending army one fight at a time. Draft items, recruit pieces, pick up trinkets, and choose routes through shops, events, treasures, and boss battles as your board mutates from a familiar chess formation into something specific to that run.

Build a New Army Every Run

• Draft items that change how pieces move, survive, capture, and combo.
• Buy or pass on shop offers while managing gold, roster slots, and long-term synergies.
• Collect trinkets that reshape combat across the whole run.
• Choose paths through combat, hard fights, events, shops, treasures, and bosses.

Chess Tactics, Roguelike Pressure

• Win battles by capturing the enemy king or clearing the enemy army.
• Deploy before fights, then solve deterministic tactical boards with the army you built.
• Learn through a guided tutorial, then chase deeper builds across multi-act runs.

The current playtest focuses on the live tactical loop: map routing, deployment, chess battles, rewards, shops, items, trinkets, bosses, settings, and run recap. Balance, content, UX, and presentation are still moving quickly, so feedback from real runs matters.