Underplayed Gems

Simple 1500 Series Vol. 2: The Shogi (1998)

Simple 1500 Series Vol. 2: The Shogi cover
Publisher
D3 Publisher, Culture Publishers
Platforms
PlayStation
Genres
Card & Board Game
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How it feels

A plain, no-frills digital shogi board that quietly invites careful, unhurried strategic thinking at whichever difficulty you choose.

minimalistcerebralslow-pacedstrategicno-frillscalmmodesttraditional

About

Shogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Shogi means general's. Simple 1500 Series vol. 002 - The Shogi is a shogi game supervised by the president of the Computer Shogi Association, that features 3 difficulty levels and also a 2 players vs mode.

Screenshots

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