Chess Housers
Chess Housers is a puzzle game from Spain. The player guides a disembodied glove with the ARROW keys through an isometric maze with a chess board on the ground and many chess pieces placed. The glove has to…
Chess Housers is a strategy developed by Diabolic, released 31 December 1990 on DOS.
What Chess Housers is
Chess Housers is a strategy game developed by Diabolic and released in 1990. It was published by Erbe Software. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Chess Housers is a puzzle game from Spain. The player guides a disembodied glove with the ARROW keys through an isometric maze with a chess board on the ground and many chess pieces placed. The glove has to push (ARROW keys + space bar) these pieces to clear its way to the exit. The pieces move in the same pattern they have in chess: pawns move forward, knights have an "L" shaped movement, etc. The gauntlet can be killed if it is in your way. The chess pieces are arranged in small rooms as a series of puzzles to be solved.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Chess Housers launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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