Rookspire: Chess Roguelike

Chess, but every run is a new campaign.

Rookspire is a chess roguelike: a turn-based strategy game in which you lead a small chess army up a ruined spire. Every fight is a short tactical puzzle on a 3D board: capture the enemy king or wipe out its army, then choose your next path on the map. Your pieces learn from every capture, and the pieces you lose stay lost.

Made for everyone who likes chess, strategy board games and roguelikes.

GROW YOUR ARMY • Pieces earn experience and level up. Each level offers a choice of new moves: a rook that smashes through two enemies, a knight that leaps further, a pawn that charges two squares every time. • 38 upgrades across all piece kinds, shown as clear move diagrams, so a new move never feels like a bug. • Recruit fairy pieces like the Archbishop, Chancellor, Camel and Grasshopper.

COLLECT RELICS • 46 relics that bend the rules of the run, from a horn that leaves every enemy army one piece short to boss relics with a real price. • Beat each boss once to unlock its trophy relic for your later runs. • Visit merchants, rest at campfires and decide how to answer 16 strange encounters.

FACE THE SPIRE • Three acts with branching maps of fights, elites, events, merchants and rest sites. • 15 enemy squads, elite affixes and 6 bosses, each with its own rule, from the Moss Warden to the Grand Vizier. • Terrain changes every fight: rubble blocks lines, chasms swallow the unwary, brambles slow riders, shrines grant a ward and portals open new routes.

CLIMB WITHOUT END • Conquer the spire, then keep climbing: endless floors guarded by Wardens, with a boss returning every fifth floor. • Enemies, gold, experience and glory grow with every floor. How high can your army get? • Chase your highest floor and most glory, and earn a rank from Climber to Sky Stormer.

PLAY YOUR WAY • 4 armies to unlock, or build your own company from 15 points and set your line-up before every fight. • 3 difficulties that pay more glory and better trophies the harder they are, and 8 ascension levels for veterans. • A Daily Gambit: the same seeded run for everyone each day, with a streak and a result to share. • Enemy threats shown on the board, undo on the easier difficulties, and a guided first fight that teaches the rules. • Rotate and zoom the board, adjust the text size and turn off motion effects or vibration.

MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Portrait play with large touch targets, one hand is enough. • Your run is saved after every move. Close the app at any time and continue later. • Haptic feedback, handcrafted sound and six sunlit biomes.

TRY IT, THEN OWN IT Play the whole first act, as often as you like. If you enjoy it, a single purchase unlocks the full game: acts 2 and 3, the endless climb, three more armies, Grandmaster, the ascension levels, the full Daily Gambit and every future update. No ads, no subscription, no account. Rookspire plays offline; only the purchase itself needs a connection.

Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.

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