The Rookery

The Rookery

Glyder Games · September 12, 2024 · Chess, Roguelite, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Strategy, Strategy

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The Rookery price by region

The Rookery costs £0.89 in the United Kingdom, €1.03 in Europe (EUR), $1.21 in the United States, $1.21 in Georgia (USD), zł5.74 in Poland, R$8.22 in Brazil, CA$12.99 in Canada, A$14.50 in Australia and NZ$14.75 in New Zealand right now.

Cheapest The Rookery offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.89 −90% £8.50 £0.89 3
Europe (EUR) €1.03 −89% €9.75 €1.03 4
United Statesyour region $1.21 −88% $9.99 $1.21 4
Georgia (USD) $1.21 −81% $6.29 $1.21 4
Poland zł5.74 −88% zł45.99 zł5.74 3
Brazil R$8.22 −75% R$32.99 R$8.22 2
Canada CA$12.99 CA$12.99 — 1
Australia A$14.50 A$14.50 — 1
New Zealand NZ$14.75 NZ$14.75 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About The Rookery

✦ AI summary

The Rookery combines roguelike deck-building strategy with chess combat, where you assemble an army of pieces and upgrades to defeat increasingly brutal bosses across 40 difficulty levels. Build synergistic combinations of hundreds of items and relics—from pawn-focused tactics to queen-heavy strategies—in a game accessible to chess newcomers yet challenging enough to punish international masters.

An exciting and fast-paced chess roguelite, full of ridiculous abilities! Explode your opponent's pieces, spawn queens all over the board, move twice in a row... But watch out for the bosses, who have crazy powers of their own!

The Rookery — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended May 3, 2026
6/10 sometimes your crushing it and other times your getting crushed into a fine powder, snorted, shat out, used as fertilizer to grow a lemon tree that one day falls over and levels your family home. no middle ground. all based on what you get you can win in 2 turns with them having no chance or vice versa - you should be able to sell items you dont use - only 3 items can be purchased each round. gets worse the more stuff you unlock they need to make the shop bigger, twice the size - no level up system to make each playthrough easier, they just get harder and harder as you unlock more stuff. how about more starting gold???? - you have to win in x amount of turns is some real bs and i hate it. if the enemy can they will deadlock you in check to run out the turns
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Recommended Oct 8, 2026
Fun chess Rogelite with some interesting chess changes - nothing too crazy that is doesn't feel like chess still. The devs keep an eye out on difficulty for bosses and AI improvements and do a good job of looking at the "bugs/issues" reported (in game button).
Not recommended Sep 20, 2026
No steam cloud saves? Why T_T
Recommended Sep 19, 2026
Fun chess roguelike, it gives enough variation and difficulty to keep things interesting for a while. Can get a real good kick out of starting with an army of explosive queens. It also gives you a fair amount of retries to balance out bad RNG, but sometimes you are just screwed with your build against certain gimmicks. Since I do not care enough to challenge myself, there is not much after you have unlocked everything.
Recommended Aug 23, 2026
Not a bad chess-roguelike mix, however it does get boring quite quickly mainly because the chess board gets cluttered in a way that is not always fun and challenging, but rather tidieous. In overall I would still recommend the game as it has its fun moments that align well with the pricetag. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7279488-One-Grumpy-Russian]One Grumpy Russian[/url] 6.5/10 - If Kasparov could move his Rook like a bishop, DeepBlue woul've never won
Not recommended Jul 12, 2026
I like the game, but it is unplayable after level 15. Its the same identical levels, just with less pieces and options. Means it all comes down to a less than 1% chance of a perfect randomly generated play through which allows you to win. Balance issues.

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