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You're right, it's just a puzzle game. Strange to use the theme of chess and change a queen into a prince too.

Pawnbarian is more chess-inspired than a chess themed, but actually rogue(lite)-like and very good.

https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian/

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"Rogue-like" is the most over-used term these days. It now has almost no meaning, compared to what it used to mean.

NES-game-with-no-battery-like

Normally the term fits very well and there are a lot of rogue likes, in this case its just wrong.

You die and loose everything than you have a meta upgrade loop.

I'm aware of what it means now. It used to have a more specific meaning than just "You die and loose everything than you have a meta upgrade loop". That was part of what it meant but not all. The "Berlin interpretation" is what it used to mean, and most of the stuff that's now called a roguelike was referred to as "roguelite" since it met some of the criteria for roguelike but not all.

thank you for the kind words!

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