Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure Review

Puzzle games exist in a lot of forms, from first person shooters like Halo to dramatic trial settings like the Ace Attorney series. Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure presents them in their purest form. It’s the game of chess, remastered and expanded. Chessaria is an innovative way to introduce the game to a new audience and challenge existing players.

Gameplay

Each chess piece has been converted into a person, and each has their own role to play on the board. Each piece also has a unique voice and battle movement, whether they’re sliding across the board or defeating another piece. I found them entertaining. But if you’d rather just get the move over with, you have the option to turn the animation feature off. The graphics are attractive — nothing too intricate — but clean and stylized.

You can also adjust the difficulty of the game. This allows for brand new players to enter the board without feeling as intimidated by it as they might otherwise. For more experienced players, they can amp up the challenge, and the computer player is no chump.

What really sets Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure apart is its motivators. Quite frankly, it’s easy to get bored playing computer-based board games. Once you beat the computer a few times, you don’t really have anything left to accomplish. It can be difficult to generate motivation in your player audience to get them to continue to play.

And that’s where Chessaria excels. You have numerous options for how you can set up your game. But there’s also an adventure mode that gives you access to more boards and player types.