Rogue Mate

Rogue Mate is a turn-based tactical roguelite built around chess. You fight waves of enemies while your Pawns, Knights, Bishops, Rooks, King and Queen gain upgrades, unlock abilities and evolve as you progress. Enemies advance from all sides, so positioning, piece synergy and upgrade timing matter; one poor decision can bring down your formation.

Build your warband

Spend Gold to recruit pieces and Essence to unlock permanent skill branches. Choose one of 5 starting formations, then develop each piece through branching upgrade paths. For example, you can shape a Knight around leaping strikes and shockwaves or build a Rook to tear through everything in its lane. The game has 18 skill branches across your pieces and 26 upgrades, each with multiple variants.

Campaigns and bosses

Fight through 2 campaigns featuring 20 boss encounters, each with its own challenge. Bosses include 1,000 Cuts, The Jester, the Shadow Lord, the Unbreakable and the False King; the encounters finish with the Omni King and Achilles. Enemy Kings can also apply 24 modifiers that warp the board, freezing your pieces, poisoning the ground or turning your formation against itself.

Game modes

• March to Battle: Fight through escalating boss encounters, each with its own mechanics and twist.
• The Gauntlet: Face every boss back-to-back.
• Endless: Keep fighting for as long as you can hold the board.
• MiThiKaL Trials: Take on objective-based game types and bosses including Medusa and Achilles.

Between runs

At camp, recruit pieces, unlock permanent upgrades, arrange your formation and customize the Codex to tune how each upgrade functions. The Hall of Records tracks your runs, kills and personal bests. During a run, you can spend Gold at the Travelling Merchant when you encounter him.

Difficulties

Standard and Grandmaster difficulties are available. On Grandmaster, each fight includes a second enemy King with its own modifier stacked on top.