🌋 The Gauntlet
Chess. But louder.
One piece. 48 ranks. Lava below, enemy attack lines everywhere. Reach the summit — or die rich trying.
How it works
- Turn-based FPS: click once to take aim — your mouse becomes the crosshair (ESC hands it back).
- Aim, then act — everything obeys your piece's movement rules. Face a direction with your cursor and ↑↓←→ steps along your piece's nearest legal line — bishops take the closest diagonal, knights hop toward your heading. Click a gold ring to dash far in one turn.
- SPACE opens fire on a defender in your path (red ring); once it falls, the square is yours to take.
- Defenders fight back: survive your shot and they return fire. Shields soak damage before your hull does.
- Loot is gear: 🎁 upgrades your weapon (Mk I→III), 🪙 charges shields — or patches your hull when they're full.
- Everything hunts by real chess moves: pawns take diagonally, sliders strike down clear lines, knights leap. Get caught and they strike — hard.
- 👑 The enemy king guards the summit. Regicide pays +500; the summit +300.
- The 🔥 rises every 2 turns — it cooks their army too.