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About This Game

A roguelike tower defense where you build your own maze on a chessboard that reshapes itself every turn.

Build a maze of walls on a chessboard, summon white pieces as towers, and hold back the advancing army of black chess pieces.

Spend bounties to evolve each piece down its own skill tree and unleash ultimate moves that make the damage numbers explode 🔥

1. Evolutions

Every tower grows along its own evolution tree.

The Queen curses with elements, the King bends time, the Pawn kills in one strike, the Knight strikes in a flurry, the Bishop fires reflecting beams, and the Rook sweeps whole areas.

Play to each piece's strengths and stop the enemy advance.

2. Six Chess Towers

♟ Pawn, Short range, but the heaviest single hit of any tower.

♞ Knight, Unleashes rapid strikes on enemies standing a knight's move away.

♜ Rook, An area-attack gunner. Fires down ranks and files, hitting every enemy lined up in its path.

♝ Bishop, Area attacks along the diagonals, with beams that bounce off walls to hit crowds.

♛ Queen, An elemental tower that inflicts poison, brands, lightning or ice on every enemy in range.

♚ King, Pure support. Never attacks, but empowers the towers around him.

Limited resources, and a choice: which piece goes where? Placement itself becomes your strategy.

3. Blocks

Unlike traditional tower defense games, GRIDLOCK GAMBIT has you carve out the enemy's path yourself.

• Enemies that leap over single-tile walls

• Enemies that warp forward in a straight line

Read each enemy's ability and rebuild your maze to match a board that changes every turn.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game was developed with the assistance of generative AI. Music, translation, and some visual art were AI-generated, then curated and adjusted by the developer.