Chesscape Room

About the Game

What if chess wasn’t just about checkmate but about escaping? This is a tactics-first twist on chess where your goal is to reach a door with your king while the your opponent tries to stop you from doing that.

You move like chess, think like a puzzler, and play like a roguelite: quick runs and instant retries. There’s no opening theory to memorize, just clean, readable tactics with that “one more try” loop. Each stage is a chess puzzle to help you sharpen your skills and thinking.

Play solo in a progressive campaigns, mess around in a quick-fire Custom mode that regenerates new boards on demand. 

Features

• Escape, don’t checkmate: Win by reaching the a board-adjacent door with your king. Lose if the enemy checkmates you.

• Handmade and procedural boards: From classic rectangles to L-shapes and blobby mazes, with carved-out holes and multiple doors on higher levels.

• Tactical clarity: Click-to-move with clear highlights for moves and captures. Easy to read, hard to master.

• Modes: Campaign (progressively trickier boards), Custom (instant regeneration for rapid experiments), and Local Versus (couch duels).

Who will love it?

• Chess Fans who want to want to train chess with invariant board training.

• Chess puzzle fans who prefer clever routes and puzzles besides opening theory.

• Roguelite & tactics players craving quick, replayable challenges.

• Couch-versus folks looking for laid back puzzling & strategic duels.