TOTAL ZUGZWANG

Chess has been given an upgrade. This unique roguelike challenge integrates the chess board with a steam-powered conveyor belt, and puts it in a machine that ceaselessly spits out procedurally generated waves of chess armies, dangerous traps and powerful items.

Strategise to defeat cunning Kings, while protecting your flank against brutish rogue pieces.

Resurrect fallen pawns and promote them to build your battalion of Queens.

Survive into the end game and defeat the final mechanical terror.

Battle for highscores against your friends and the world!
"THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAS MODERNISED THE ANCIENT GAME OF CHESS"

GAME-CHANGING POWERUPS
Fight for dominance of pivotal squares to capture power-ups with board-shattering effects and turn the tides of battle.

CHECKMATE OR BE CHECKMATED
With every grind of the conveyor belt, every shift of the board, every TOTAL ZUGZWANG,
you could find yourself one move from a gratifying checkmate...
...or one away from your own King's game-ending capture.

BRIBE AND SELL TO ALTER THE BATTLEFIELD IN YOUR FAVOR
Use captured pieces as currency to bribe brutish rogues to join your side.
Boost your score and declutter the board by selling pieces no longer needed.

CHESS COME ALIVE WITH SOUND AND MUSIC BY JAKE GAULE [SUBMERGED TAPES]
Be immersed in the machinery through a textured steampunk soundscape.
Become transfixed to the action with an original procedural soundtrack of hypnotic african drumming interspersed with electrifying trumpets performed by John Robert Matz.