The Board is Yours

A WAY-TOO-COMPLEX INCREMENTAL GAME It looks like chess, it feels like an idle game, but it plays like: "How do I even optimize this?". Forget upgrades that give 5% here and 10% there, this new take on incremental games forces you to actually think about the perks you buy and adapt how you play in consequence. HOW TO ACTUALLY PLAY - Buy squares of the board, chess pieces, and place your pieces to generate resources. - Focus way too hard on seemingly unsolvable optimization problems and question your sanity. - Go grab a coffee. Maybe take a nap. - Come back to billions and invest in upgrades to gain more. - Stack prestige perks and restart with new ways to gain even more. Always more. And repeat, until the board belongs to you. YOU'LL PROBABLY LIKE THIS IF YOU: - Enjoy incremental games and know about chess - Like to solve "how far can I push this?" challenges - Appreciate when upgrades are meaningful and entirely change how you play and think about the game - Don’t mind restarting runs to test new ideas - Are just looking for a couple of hours swinging between despair and satisfaction YOU'LL PROBABLY HATE THIS IF YOU: - Want a low-effort idle game you can ignore in the background - Don't like diving deep into dense stats tooltips - Get upset when some official chess rules are missing from a chess-inspired game - Expect a profound story, dialogue, cinematic cutscenes, or a battle pass A note from the dev I built this game to see how far I could push strategic thinking in an incremental game. Well, I think the honest answer is: a bit too far. Mixing these genre was definitely a strange idea, but I hope some of you will enjoy picking systems apart and finding disgusting optimizations. I'm genuinely curious to see what you'll do with it.