Captures

Captures is a chess-driven puzzle game in which you aim to remove all the black pieces from each board. Pieces move according to regular chess rules, but the board layout changes between levels, with boards ranging from 3×3 to 8×8. Some squares have special effects that alter pieces or their fate.

Board effects

• Cursed squares: capturing a piece on one also costs you the capturing piece.
• Poisoned squares: a piece that lands on one expires after 3 turns.
• Portals: a piece on a portal moves to the other portal after black completes its turn.
• Random-effect tiles: a piece that lands on one transmutes into another piece.

Levels and speedrun

Most levels are aimed at beginners. For a greater challenge, you can play the built-in speedrun mode, where levels start one after another and you must make fewer than 5 mistakes over the whole run. Resetting a level during a speedrun counts as a mistake.

Rules and outcomes

You win a level by removing all black pieces. A stalemate or losing all your white pieces fails the level, except when your last white piece is lost at the same time as the last black piece, in which case the level is completed. The CPU tends to trade pieces, and the game shows random tips as you play.