Ouroboros King Chess Roguelike

Oriol Cosp Games

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About this game

The ad-free demo contains 1 (of 3) acts and 22 (of 57 pieces).

The Ouroboros King is a chess roguelike game where players must free the Kingdom of Thessalonia from the Coven across different timelines. Advance through a procedurally generated map, fight chess skirmishes and improve your army with novel chess pieces and relics. Discover synergies between pieces and relics to perfect your builds and enjoy the depth of chess tactics. After beating the main story, replay it with extra difficulty options or fight in an endless gauntlet in infinity mode. The game also features a practice mode that can be used for single-device multiplayer.

Ratings and reviews

Fun game but has some issues. Getting into late infinity mode rounds gets increasingly laggy, the enemy ends up getting more relics than can be displayed on screen making it difficult to plan around at times. If your RNG is good, you can end up with a nearly impossible to counter strategy by end game. Would also benefit from a multiplayer mode.

Fun game! Found it through Northern Lion's stream. If you're used to regular chess, being able to see pins/forks/trades seem to be the most important thing. Beating all 3 witches at 100% difficulty is really hard. But if you can roll a bunch of rooks/catapults/royal guards + a prince or gorgon it's doable. I wish there were incentives to use other pieces though. Maybe achievements for beating a run with a certain piece? Also discrete difficulty levels instead of a slider would feel better.

Games fun and I enjoyed it. But infinity mode isn't what I thought it would be. Access to infinity mode comes to an end if you lose. And you lose when you run out of rewinds. Also, progression comes to a stop once the story has ended and you enter infinity mode. Gold becomes useless, no access to the store, no access to other units, can't upgrade current units. Kind of defeats the purpose. You become stuck with whatever you have when completing the story.