Underplayed Gems

Favor Chess (2019)

Favor Chess cover
Developer
Javissoft
Platforms
Windows, macOS
Genres
Strategy
Rating
3.2 of 5, 52 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 1.3 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

A free-to-play chess variant that feels like an ever-shifting tactical puzzle, where assembling a unique army and using special tokens continuously rewrites the rules of engagement.

strategiccustomizablefree to playchallengingtacticalunpredictableexperimental

What players say

Players say it is an interesting chess variant with creative custom armies, but the multiplayer is dead and the small community makes finding matches hard. Some units are unbalanced and the AI can stall indefinitely, while the game also runs poorly on modest hardware.

Screenshots

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