Solo Chess
NourSaiFR · 2025 · Card Game, Chess, Board Game, Roguelike Deckbuilder, Roguelike
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4 user reviews75% · 4
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About Solo Chess
Play Smart. Stay Cozy. Master the Board.
Welcome to Solo Chess (formerly Pokerii), the cozy roguelike deckbuilder where every card is a chess piece, and every play is packed with strategy. Place cards on a 3×3 board, trigger unique piece effects, and build powerful combos to score points and clear wave after wave of tactical challenges.Collect pets, choose food, and reshape your deck between rounds at a charming café filled with helpful upgrades and surprises.
About Solo Chess
Inspired by chess and minimalist roguelikes, Solo Chess blends tactical decision-making with cozy aesthetics. Whether you are lining up a combo with Pawns or duplicating effects with a clever Queen placement, your board is small—but your plays are mighty.Core Features
- Chess-Inspired Deckbuilding
Start with a 16-card deck made of Pawns, Knights, Bishops, Rooks, Queens, and Kings—each with a unique scoring effect based on its traditional movement. - Combo-Centric Scoring
Hit specific rank sums like 4, 8, or 12 to trigger special combo bonuses. Align your plays and maximize your score with tight math and clever placement. - Wave-Based Roguelike Runs
Face an escalating series of challenges. Every board layout and card draw becomes a new puzzle to solve. - Build Your Deck with Pets & Food
Visit a cozy café between waves to adopt pets (passive bonuses), select food (temporary buffs), or use special tools to enhance your deck.
Strategic Deck Tools
- Mystery Gift – Open surprise packages with powerful effects—sometimes risky, always fun.
- Promotion – Upgrade one of your cards into a more powerful version.
- Sacrifice – Remove a card to fine-tune your build and increase synergy.
Extra Details
- 16 chess-inspired cards with unique strategic effects.
- 40+ pets with passive effects to enhance your strategy.
- 10 difficulty levels to test your deckbuilding skills.
- Multiple unlockable decks with unique starting setups.
- 3 visual variants per card through collectible auras.
- Extra card powers granted by charms and bindings.
- Many sum-based combos to chase every run.
- Deck upgrades, removals, and surprises via café visits.
- Wholesome chibi art, clean UI, and cozy sound design.
Small Deck. Big Brain. Cozy Vibes.
Whether you are chasing high scores or savoring the strategy, Solo Chess offers a charming, replayable twist on chess and deckbuilding—perfect for quick runs, clever plays, and relaxing challenges.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Cutesy Balatro. No really, the only thing that differentiate this from Balatro is the "chess piece" cards and the 3x3 board, each card has its own ability depending on where you place it on the board. It doesn't even play like chess in a slightest sense. Still good game regardless. One thing to note that the game was released when it's still on ver. 0.7.6, so wasn't even a full version. There's a day 1 patch (0.7.7), but that's it. No more updates even after 6 months after releases. Some minor bugs still exists. Idk if this game is abandoned or not. I'm hoping this review would bring attention to the dev abt the issue & the current state of the game. I only bought this at sale initially to support the dev (only abt 4 reviews for this game atm), but after playing the actual game I now see why it doesn't sell well4 found this helpful
Plays like Balatro but there is no chess. :(3 found this helpful
don't understand this game at all. sometimes my hand will do 200 damage, other times 2 million.2 found this helpful
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