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Climb the tower, defeat opponents, use wands.

Controls
Numpad: move
Number keys: use inventory items
X / mouse hover: examine
Enter / Numpad 5: confirm
Escape: cancel
R: restart

Credits:

Made for the 7DRL Challenge (https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2026)

Made using Multimedia Fusion 2 by Clickteam (https://www.clickteam.com)

The game uses two shaders (Colourifier Plus & Dithered Fade) that I coded in part & fully before 7DRL, respectively.

Plugins and other additional tools:

Xlua by Justin Aquadro, Lukas Meller

Tile Map by Lukas Meller

Sound Player by Lukas Meller

ForEach by Ross Pickett

Layer Object by Cragmyre

Create By Name by Anders Riggelsen

SFX made with OpenMPT, Audacity & SFXR by DrPetter

Background ambience made by me for an earlier jam project

Some audio samples made before 7DRL

Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
AuthorHempuli
GenrePuzzle
Tags2D, Chess, Fantasy, No AI, Pixel Art, Roguelike, Roguelite, rougelike, Short

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Chess.zip 4.9 MB

Comments

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A neat game - but is there a fullscreen option? I find it a little difficult to play in a small window.

Also, there's a small glitch - sometimes, when you continue to the next level, some enemies are still briefly visible on screen during the level transition screen.

I believe I blew up the stairs. 10/10 would stare at a ruined floor tile again. 

So, I figured out if you have a Windows machine, you can use the On-Screen Keyboard to play. Once open, click Options -> Turn on numeric keypad and then click NumLock on the keyboard.

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got no number pad :[

please add different control schem

the game is very mysterious. no mechanics are explained and most wands are ?. so you have to figure everything out by yourself. very cool!

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would love to play this, but do not have a numpad on my laptop. could you add nethack movement as an alternative?

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Same! Please add support for keyboards without numpad, or controllers.

Very addicting Rouge-like and another fun game from Hempuli! Great to see him trying out new genres. :)

I think I might’ve found a bug. I’m able to use the Wall Wand infinitely and when I attack it it gives me points which let me regain a life.

Made it to the second floor, I have two keys and a wand but I have no idea how to get the door open. I've used the number keys to select one of the keys, moved the yellow rectangle over to the door but nothing happens when I press Enter. Ended up giving up in frustration unfortunately. I'm clearly missing something that may be obvious to others?

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Hmm, the way to open the doors should be to press a number key corresponding to the slot a key is in, then moving the reticle over the door and pressing Enter or Numpad 5. Sounds like this is what you did, but if it's not too much trouble, could you try doing this one more time to confirm that something is broken?

I didn't realise I could press Numpad 5, that worked, thank you

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Seems like a cool game, just wish it could use the number row as well, since I'm using a windows emulator on Mac

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congratulations on the release, I am hoping to enjoy this chess.zip in the future :) :Frog::frog:frog:

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