Pixel Chess Idle RPG

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: [b]IndieGems[/b] if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/url][/quote] I played [i]Pixel Chess Idle RPG[/i] for quite a while before deciding whether or not to recommend it. The time on my game isn't accurate to my actual play time. I had to idle it, as the game's title suggests, from time to time. I found myself playing it for the first 30 minutes or so then start to work on strategizing on how to improve my upgrades and time management. Then idled it for the next 4-5 hours before coming back to do some more. After that first session, I was playing maybe 15-20 minutes at a time and idling 30 minutes to an hour in between. By playing I was actually just clicking through the upgrade after rebirth trying to maximize money and minimizing time used. As for the chess component, it's not really chess. Don't go into this thinking you are getting a chess game. The pawns will move forward and can attack forward and diagonally. The king can move in and out of checking positions. There is no illegal move. The pieces have health, damage, and there are upgrades that you can purchase…

[h1]What It Says on The Tin[/h1] [i]Pixel Idle Chess RPG[/i] is pretty much exactly what the title suggests: An idle game of chess, with RGP elements and pixel graphics. It might sound like a weird combo, but it pretty much works. Games don't start off with auto-play. Instead, the player has to move pieces forward until you earn enough to purchase auto-play. Eventually, you gain permanent upgrades that give you enough money to purchase auto-play right after a rebirth/prestige. There is also a toggle to turn off auto-play so you can play matches with the computer. You start with just White King and Black King, with you playing White. Each square you move earns gold. Captures of Black pieces (here, called kills) earn more gold. Capturing the Black King results advances you a level. Early on, this includes adding another Black piece to the board, one per level, Pawns first. I can't tell if the chess engine also gets progressively smarter. Gold is invested right back in upgrades, including buying the rest of the White pieces. The RPG element comes quickly into play, as the upgrades include HP and attack. Pieces can attack from any valid movement po…

Idle & Incremental Lovers reviewed Pixel Chess Idle RPG and gave it a neutral review: [i] Neutral review. Thumbs up for some really good ideas, but ultimately you'll just be clicking on upgrades and idling. You'll nearly never be playing chess, the (really) dumb autoplay takes care of it. [/i] *** This is a tricky one, cause players usually have the expectation to use their brainpower a lot when it comes to chess. This is more an OK incremental game with simple numbers go up features, but the active chess part is minimal. + There are some really cool features coming from the RPG genre : HP, damage, vampirism, special abilities. + There is some fun in watching the game autoplay, especially since the computer (as both players) probably has a minus 1000 Elo ranking. Will I prevail, or will I epicly fail? + Based on the game you just lost, you can choose your upgrades a bit more wisely to answer the "puzzle" (as the same game goes on over and over again if you do nothing). So there's a bit of tactical play, but more in the "upgrade" part than in the "chess" part. +/- No ending, it goes infinite. Whether you like it or not is a matter of personal preference. - The quickest way to get …

A very neat idea, and a well made project for a solo dev. Unfortunately, the fun just isn't there for me, at all. The early game (and subsequently, the first BUNCH of rebirths) is painfully, cripplingly slow and boring. You will be spamming a single piece back and forth between the same two spaces, manually, as fast as you can, for 20-30 minutes before anything meaningful can happen.

I am not that bad at chess, unfortunately that does not matter playing this game. Its okay I guess but nothing special. Tends to be very grindy. Its okay for the bucks but I am not invested.

Great game! i love the mastery system and the abilities. i do hope to see more in the future, especially to the tokens! one thing, the auto player does not take the rook ability info effect lol. i found a strategy where i dont buy bishops and knight or pawns, and i just castle, rook to f7, rook to f8 killing the king with the shock! the autoplay fails to see that. very annoying! hard to level up by hand