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Piecebreaker playtest
by Tab Six Studios
A tactical chess roguelike where every run rebuilds your army: draft items and trinkets, route through shops and events, then break the board.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Tab Six Studios
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Piecebreaker playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Piecebreaker playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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About Piecebreaker
Piecebreaker is a tactical chess roguelike about building a strange, rule-bending army one fight at a time. Draft items, recruit pieces, pick up trinkets, and choose routes through shops, events, treasures, and boss battles as your board mutates from a familiar chess formation into something specific to that run.
Build a New Army Every Run
- Draft items that change how pieces move, survive, capture, and combo.
- Buy or pass on shop offers while managing gold, roster slots, and long-term synergies.
- Collect trinkets that reshape combat across the whole run.
- Choose paths through combat, hard fights, events, shops, treasures, and bosses.
Chess Tactics, Roguelike Pressure
- Win battles by capturing the enemy king or clearing the enemy army.
- Deploy before fights, then solve deterministic tactical boards with the army you built.
- Learn through a guided tutorial, then chase deeper builds across multi-act runs.
The current playtest focuses on the live tactical loop: map routing, deployment, chess battles, rewards, shops, items, trinkets, bosses, settings, and run recap. Balance, content, UX, and presentation are still moving quickly, so feedback from real runs matters.
From the game's Steam page.
