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By Chris Morris
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Chess meets Battle Royale -- and it's as odd as it sounds.
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Auto Brawl Chess: Battle Royale
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What's It About?
In AUTO BRAWL CHESS: BATTLE ROYALE, players join quick five-minute battles against other players or the game's AI, fighting for supremacy on a Chess-like board. Using rules adapted from Chess, players will automatically battle their rivals with a collection of heroes, which can be upgraded between fights -- or have their numbers increased -- using coins earned from winning skirmishes. (Once the pieces are set, the players can only watch what happens.) The strategy element comes in when determining which of over 100 factions and classes to recruit to your side (and how they'll fare against your opponents). Four players constantly battle in a series of skirmishes, with the winner of the most skirmishes winning the round.
Is It Any Good?
The combination of Chess and the Battle Royale genre is unusual enough, even before role-playing and strategy are laid on top of them. But Auto Brawl Chess: Battle Royale manages to pull it off, though not as triumphantly as one might hope. The rules of the battle aren't clearly explained and players are sort of thrown in the deep end without a lot of information about the factions and classes at their fingertips. It takes a few matches to even begin to grasp the conditions of victory. There are some performance and stability issues, though, so that could also impact your enjoyment of the game. The developer has acknowledged these and says it is working hard to fix them.
That will turn a lot of players away quickly. If you stick around and do start to get a sense of the strategy involved, though, there's a unique sort of Battle Royale game at work here. It's smarter than the run-and-gun style so many others use.And if the developers can squash the bugs and make the game more newcomer friendly, it could be a welcome addition to the genre.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about strategy and how it can a key factor in the game. Are you choosing the right heroes and spending your coins in the smartest way possible?
What are other ways to resolve disagreements beyond violence? Why should people exhaust all options before resorting to violent means?
App Details
- Device : Android
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : August 17, 2020
- Genre : Strategy Games
- Publisher : Panoramik Games
- Version : 1.1.5
- Minimum software requirements : Requires Android 8.0 and up
- Last updated : August 25, 2020
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