Chess With Idiots

Chess With Idiots is a turn-based strategy roguelike in which you build a team of unique “Idiots” and try to complete as many runs as possible. You choose the order of your team’s actions to plan each battle, where randomized enemy setups make encounters vary from run to run.

Regions and runs

A run begins in the Forest and takes you through four regions: the Forest, Cave, Library and Volcano. Each has its own enemies, challenges, visuals and boss, with encounters ranging from goblin ambushes in dense forests to traps in a forgotten library. Your route ends at the final boss atop the volcano, where a dragon waits at its heart.

After defeating the final boss, you can either end the run or continue. Continuing sends you back to the Forest, where the enemies have become much stronger. Each run also lets you unlock characters and abilities and develop new strategies.

Tactical battles

Battles take place on environments with hazards such as lava flows, collapsing tiles and magical anomalies. You determine the order of actions for your team and adapt your strategy to each encounter. The game uses colorful 2D art and animated effects, and is an original concept influenced by chess rather than a chess variant.