Checkmage!
An adventure game with chess-themed deckbuilding battles. Build your strategy by trading cards and battling lovable, hand-drawn characters.
About
An adventure game with chess-themed deckbuilding battles.
The OST is available on Bandcamp! (and Steam soon!)
On wizard island, wizard students play games instead of studying. One of these games involve opening a small portal to the Chess Dimension, where Checkmage! is played.
Featuring:
An ensemble cast of characters with unique personalities, strategies, and expressive dialogue. You can rematch them at later points in the game and see their strategies and loadouts improve.
100+ unique pieces, tiles, and spells to collect and experiment with. Mixing and matching different cards in your deck provides endlessly creative ways to play with surprisingly deep and emergent interactions.
6 detailed, hand-crafted locations to explore. Characters you'll meet in one location show up in other places and change their dialog as you progress.
A black wind blows through your body... Enter a creepy dungeon for an optional gauntlet mode where you fight randomly generated opponents.
Checkmage! is an indie game. I poured a lot of love into it. no LLMs or generative images were used at any point in production of this game.
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Achievements
Win a battle with a 0 card deck.
Witness a piece fall off the board in battle.
Win a battle in 3 turns.
Capture one of your own pieces.
Collect all cards found in the Library.
Collect all cards found in the Overgrown Grotto.
System requirements
Minimum OS: Windows 10 or greater Processor: 2 Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+ DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 500 MB available space Recommended Memory: 2 GB RAM
Minimum OS: Ubuntu/Arch Processor: 2 Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+ Storage: 500 MB available space