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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.

Place white pieces as towers, combine them with traps and cards, and hold back the advancing army of black chess pieces.

♜ Six Chess Towers

• The Pawn and Knight, attacking single targets

• The Bishop and Rook, striking along diagonals and straight lines at once

• The Queen, calling down lightning on every enemy in range

• The King, dealing massive damage to a single enemy

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

♞ 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

• Enemies that stun your towers

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

♝ Traps

• Electric shocks that stop enemies

• Poison swamps

• Pitfalls

Lay traps with all kinds of effects across the chessboard to disrupt the invading army.

♛ Cards

Buy cards from the shop each run and build a deck.

• Builds around Bishop and Rook line attacks

• Builds around the single-target Knight and Pawn

• Builds where the shape of your maze powers up your towers

• Builds centered on traps

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, sound effects, translation, and some visual art were AI-generated, then curated and adjusted by the developer.