Rooks Keep

Rooks Keep is a fantasy arena game where factions of sinister knights and grotesque beasts fight for domination. You battle with melee weapons and play deathmatch modes or chess, either alone against AI opponents or in multiplayer.

Arena battles

Matches take place across a variety of maps, with options and mutators. Modes include Deathmatch, Team-Deathmatch, Conversion, Last-Man-Standing and Combat Chess. In Conversion, killing an enemy converts them to your team.

Melee combat

Combat features quick and heavy attacks, parrying, blocking, dodging, and special abilities and skills. You can wield hammers, shields, swords and axes, while the beasts attack with razor-sharp claws. The fights can involve maiming and decapitation.

Chess modes

You can play Classic Chess or Combat Chess, where a piece under attack can fight to keep its place on the board. The game also supports third-party chess engines and hot-seat chess.

Play against others

You can play solo against AI bots, add AI opponents to single-player or multiplayer matches, or play over LAN and online. Multiplayer supports both arena matches and chess.

Create maps and mods

Rooks Keep includes UnrealEd for making maps and mods, and offers mod support.