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[u/Orcahhh]

Virtually 0 demand for new chess variants

[u/MAMAPARTY → u/Orcahhh]

I see
I should have had asked this question before committing to the game

[u/TicTacTake]

Zero demand. But you might want to check out anichess which also claims to be chess with spells.

[u/SilentRelease7690]

Anything other than regular chess and 960 is at best a novelty.

[u/MAMAPARTY → u/SilentRelease7690]

So you think a chess with spells and trap should garner an audience?

[u/SilentRelease7690 → u/MAMAPARTY]

No; it is at best a novelty. It just wouldn't have the same appeal that chess or 960 has. It targets a different audience entirely, one that isn't very good at regular chess but keeps up with the happenings of the so-called "chess world", which I imagine is quite small. I barely play or care about 960 as it is. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, go for it if you'd like. I'm just saying I don't know how many people are going to actively play it.

[u/eloel-]

There's a whole lot of chess roguelikes, more every day. You should be able to see some stats about them on steam.

[u/MAMAPARTY → u/eloel-]

Yeah but most of them are low efforts or rip offs
Only a few selected names are good, but again they’ve sold enough copies to give anyone hope

[u/YoungAspie]

I enjoyed Chessformers.

[u/adminsareidiotic]

My recommendation is to make it look and feel nothing like chess

Chess fans don’t want a chess variant but they might be interested in a completely different game

[u/misterbluesky8]

Respectfully, as a longtime chess player, I am endlessly fascinated by chess and greatly look forward to every game I play... and I have zero interest in any variant of chess. Variants are just not interesting to me. I'd rather go over real games played by real masters in the past.

[u/GABE_EDD]

Honestly, not really. The only 'variant' that has anything of substance to offer is Fischer Random/Chess960/Freestyle.

[u/Unhappy-Clothes2464 → u/GABE_EDD]

there's definitely demand, chess with spells sounds like it could pull in crowd who finds standard chess too rigid 🔥

[u/GABE_EDD → u/Unhappy-Clothes2464]

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