Chess Arena
A Chinese indie game that combines Xiangqi, Chinese Chess, with a fighting or beat 'em up game. The chess component follows the standard rules, except for the removal of check/checkmate. Instead of a piece…
Chess Arena is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by HideChara, released 9 May 2019 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Chess Arena is
Chess Arena is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by HideChara and released in 2019. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Godot Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Chinese indie game that combines Xiangqi, Chinese Chess, with a fighting or beat 'em up game. The chess component follows the standard rules, except for the removal of check/checkmate. Instead of a piece being taken the game enters an arena mode and the two pieces fight with a top-down perspective to decide on the result. Each piece plays differently due to their attacks and abilities. The losing piece is destroyed but a pieces health is persistent making repeated fights dangerous. The game's single player has 50 levels that consist of games in various stages of play that must be completed in order to unlock the next level. The online multiplayer is player hosted which reveals the hosts…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Chess Arena launched on 9 May 2019, within three weeks of Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds and Katana Zero.
Released around the same time: Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Katana Zero.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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