Rookspire: Chess Roguelike
Tactical chess strategy puzzle
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Lead a chess army up a ruined spire: level up your pieces, collect relics and outwit bosses that bend the rules. Play the whole first act for free, offline, with no ads.
Chess, but every run is a new campaign.
Rookspire is a chess roguelike: a turn-based strategy game in which you lead a small chess army up a ruined spire. Every fight is a short tactical puzzle on a 3D board: capture the enemy king or wipe out its army, then choose your next path on the map. Your pieces learn from every capture, and the pieces you lose stay lost.
Made for everyone who likes chess, strategy board games and roguelikes.
GROW YOUR ARMY
• Pieces earn experience and level up. Each level offers a choice of new moves: a rook that smashes through two enemies, a knight that leaps further, a pawn that charges two squares every time.
• 38 upgrades across all piece kinds, shown as clear move diagrams, so a new move never feels like a bug.
• Recruit fairy pieces like the Archbishop, Chancellor, Camel and Grasshopper.
COLLECT RELICS
• 46 relics that bend the rules of the run, from a horn that leaves every enemy army one piece short to boss relics with a real price.
• Beat each boss once to unlock its trophy relic for your later runs.
• Visit merchants, rest at campfires and decide how to answer 16 strange encounters.
FACE THE SPIRE
• Three acts with branching maps of fights, elites, events, merchants and rest sites.
• 15 enemy squads, elite affixes and 6 bosses, each with its own rule, from the Moss Warden to the Grand Vizier.
• Terrain changes every fight: rubble blocks lines, chasms swallow the unwary, brambles slow riders, shrines grant a ward and portals open new routes.
CLIMB WITHOUT END
• Conquer the spire, then keep climbing: endless floors guarded by Wardens, with a boss returning every fifth floor.
• Enemies, gold, experience and glory grow with every floor. How high can your army get?
• Chase your highest floor and most glory, and earn a rank from Climber to Sky Stormer.
PLAY YOUR WAY
• 4 armies to unlock, or build your own company from 15 points and set your line-up before every fight.
• 3 difficulties that pay more glory and better trophies the harder they are, and 8 ascension levels for veterans.
• A Daily Gambit: the same seeded run for everyone each day, with a streak and a result to share.
• Enemy threats shown on the board, undo on the easier difficulties, and a guided first fight that teaches the rules.
• Rotate and zoom the board, adjust the text size and turn off motion effects or vibration.
MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD
• Portrait play with large touch targets, one hand is enough.
• Your run is saved after every move. Close the app at any time and continue later.
• Haptic feedback, handcrafted sound and six sunlit biomes.
TRY IT, THEN OWN IT
Play the whole first act, as often as you like. If you enjoy it, a single purchase unlocks the full game: acts 2 and 3, the endless climb, three more armies, Grandmaster, the ascension levels, the full Daily Gambit and every future update. No ads, no subscription, no account. Rookspire plays offline; only the purchase itself needs a connection.
Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
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Rookspire now speaks ten languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese join English and German. New: a run you started can always be continued from the title, a new run is one tap away when a run ends, and the merchant's page stays where you scrolled it. Fixed: volume sliders no longer change while you scroll, notices leave on their own, and the captures of a lost fight are counted.
The developer, Leon Plienig, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
- Seller
- Leon Plienig
- Size
- 342.4 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13
• iPhone SE (3rd generation)
• iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Plus
• iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16
• iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPhone 16e
• iPhone 17 Pro
• iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iPhone 17
• iPhone Air
• iPhone 17e
• iPhone 18 Pro
• iPhone 18 Pro Max
• iPhone Duo - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
• iPad Pro (11‑inch)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (5th generation)
• iPad mini (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (3rd generation)
• iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (4th generation)
• iPad Air (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (8th generation)
• iPad (8th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (6th generation)
• iPad mini (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (9th generation)
• iPad (9th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (5th generation)
• iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (10th generation)
• iPad (10th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (A17 Pro)
• iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (A16)
• iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 9 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full game $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Leon Pließnig
