The Ouroboros King

The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.

The Ouroboros King is a turn-based tactics, rogue-lite and difficult game developed by Oriol Cosp Games and published by Hawthorn Games and Oriol Cosp Games.
Released on February 27th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 13 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Catalan, Polish and Ukrainian.

It has received 374 reviews of which 320 were positive and 54 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Ouroboros King into these genres:

Turn-Based Tactics Rogue-lite Difficult Board Game Turn-Based Strategy Rogue-like Chess Strategy 2D Fantasy Singleplayer Medieval Indie

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
Processor: SSE2 support
Graphics: true, need some graphics to display things
Sound Card: sure, if you want to hear anything
Additional Notes:

Linux

OS: I tried it on Ubuntu and it worked, refund if it doesn't work on your OS
Processor: yes
Graphics: yes
Sound Card: yes

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

I like how this game combines chess and rouge like gameplay good thing im good at chess because this game is hard (im not good at chess)

Dec. 2024

Hay anyone else recon I'v played this game a little to much even though I got to infinety 120 on the hardest difficulty I don't think I have

Dec. 2024

Very great game, I would love to see more story to it and different sized levels as well but overall, It's a good Chess like game.

Sept. 2024

If you like Chess you will definitely like this. Some of the names of the extra pieces in this are made up for this game, like war wagon, but many of these piece types exist in official chess variants that I have played. The War Wagon is a promoted Shogi rook for example. But many of these are completely unique to this game. I got a little bit addicted to this game because I play chess every day already and this is my style.

May 2024

You might have thought it was shotgun king, you might have thought it was 4d chess, you might even have thought it was pawnbarian of all things, but no. Ouroboros King is chess 2. That being said, if you are expecting a fun roguelike, you will be disappointed. There might as well be no story, playtime for a run is very short, and there aren't really any bonuses carried from run to run. HOWEVER. You could say all those things about chess. Only play this game if you like chess. You may have noticed that i refunded the game, here's why: i can't play chess. If you are a chess player this game will be one of the best games you will have ever played. if you are not good at chess, you will not be good at Ouroboros King.

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9.75€

8.0

320

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Developer

Oriol Cosp Games

Publisher

Hawthorn Games, Oriol Cosp Games

Release 27 Feb 2023

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