The Rookery
Glyder Games · 2024 · Chess, Roguelite, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Strategy, Strategy
PC
Very Positive95% · 77
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About The Rookery
The Rookery offers all the army-building challenges and explosive potential of classic roguelikes with the timeless fun of chess. Your army will start meager but you will be offered many upgrades - will you go for a pawn-centric build, or try to get as many queens as possible? Will you go for the greedy options, preparing to destroy the final boss as long as you can sneak through the first act with some timely potions?
We have a very wide range of difficulty—the game can be played and won by someone who has never played chess before, while simultaneously posing a brutal challenge for accredited international masters!
Each run is different. As you complete runs, you'll unlock harder levels and crazier items! Synergize all your upgrades together to destroy even the toughest bosses!
10 different bosses with powerful, unique abilities!5 different starting relics, leading to a wide variety of play experiences! Over a hundred unique items and buffs!
40 different difficulty levels, backed by a tough AI that will not hesitate to exploit your weaknesses!
We have a very wide range of difficulty—the game can be played and won by someone who has never played chess before, while simultaneously posing a brutal challenge for accredited international masters!
Features
Each run, craft an army - collect pieces, boosts, relics and consumables to prepare for your next fight!Each run is different. As you complete runs, you'll unlock harder levels and crazier items! Synergize all your upgrades together to destroy even the toughest bosses!
10 different bosses with powerful, unique abilities!5 different starting relics, leading to a wide variety of play experiences! Over a hundred unique items and buffs!
40 different difficulty levels, backed by a tough AI that will not hesitate to exploit your weaknesses!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
7/10 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 stuff5 found this helpful
This is dressed up, reward driven, weird rules chess, but I rather just play chess.2 found this helpful
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.
Game is pleasant. Pwn many a peasant. Works as intended. Recommended.
It's really, really good. All the decisions they've made seem to have been really intelligently thought through, so that things you initially think are pointless or unbalanced turn out to be well chosen with more exploration. It actually highlights how hard it would be to make a good chess roguelike, by actually being a really good chess roguelike.
Received this as part of a chess-themed Humble Bundle and I think it is the best of the bunch. There are plenty of boosts/relics that (if you pay attention) can make the runs very manageable, but still challenging. Hits the narrow band (for me) of frustrating enough to be annoyed when losing a run, yet entertaining enough to want to try again.
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