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73%65373% positive reviews, Mostly Positive across 653 reviews·Chess · Board Game
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Chess Defense is a strategy tower defense game where chess pieces become your towers.
Chess Defense
SteamChess Defense is a strategy tower defense game where chess pieces become your towers.
Each piece attacks exactly how it would move in real chess — Rooks fire down straight lines, Bishops control diagonals, Knights strike in deadly L-shapes, and Queens dominate everything in between. The twist? They never move. Once placed, they become living weapons.
You don’t just place towers — you build the maze itself, shaping the battlefield to force enemies into lethal checkmates of your own design. Every wall, every piece, every placement matters.
Think ahead, control space, and turn the board into a death trap.
Simple rules. Deep strategy. Pure chess chaos.
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