Shattered Chess

Shattered Chess is a run-based game about planning captures and chaining them into high-scoring combos. You have 10 moves per run, and every capture contributes to your score. Missing a capture breaks your chain, while a carefully planned route can build multipliers and earn greater rewards.

Build your combos

You upgrade passives and combine effects to shape each run. Options include combo extensions, piece specializations, movement-changing upgrades, zone-based scoring boosts, more enemy pieces, extra moves and effects that trigger when a combo ends. You can adapt your strategy around the combinations you find.

Face changing rules

Bosses appear every few stages and disrupt your strategy with special rules. Three examples are:

• Pattern Breaker: increases piece cooldowns by 4.
• Frozen Knights: prevents all knights from moving.
• The Orderbound: restricts piece moves to this order: Bishop, Pawn, Rook, Knight. Queens and Kings are exempt.

You can also choose King Challenges that impose permanent drawbacks for the whole run. Harder challenges bring greater rewards.

Modes and features

The game includes endless mode, multiple difficulties and boss rush mode. Runs use randomized layouts, and you can customize pieces and tiles with skins. Its presentation uses atmospheric pixel-art visuals.