Exodus Checkmate
A downloadable game for Windows
--EN--
You're trapped in school and monsters appeared... The only way out? Playing real-life and mortal chess! Explore complex Gameboards in this First Person Dungeon Crawler and raise the affection with your teammates to get closer to them!
You are the king. You are the school's only salvation!
FEATURING
- 7 main dungeons for now, but at least more 7 planned for the final release!
- Visual Novel style story.
- A cooldown-based battle system.
- PT-BR voice acting.
- Banging soundtrack!
- Tons of enemy types!
CONTROLS
- MOVEMENT = W, A, S, D or Arrow Keys
- RUN = Shift
- INTERACT and CONFIRM = Z, Space or Enter
- CANCEL and MENU = X or Esc
- FAST FORWARD DIALOGUE = Hold Shift
- MAP ZOOM = N
- OPEN MAP = M
CHARACTERS
The Hero is your main character. You'll decide his dialogue options and actions.
Voiced by Cadu Pinheiro
Quinn is a focused girl and the more experient when dealing with Gameboards and Outcasters.
Voiced by @PlsCallMeAkuma
Stella is a king-hearted girl that loves the obscure. She's also really shy and have problems when socializing with others.
Voiced by Nicole Robaski
Isa is a focused girl that usually takes things way too serious. She's ready to give her own life to save the school.
Voiced by @Ray01023
Tina is an energetic and is always excited to do anything new! however, she hates to be called a shorty.
Voiced by @PlsCallMeAkuma
Sheila don't show much of her expressions, but she always have something on her mind.
Voiced by Napolipony
--PT-BR--
Você está preso na escola e monstros apareceram... Sua única saída? Jogar xadrez mortal e real! Explore Tabuleiros complexos nesse Dungeon Crawler em primeira pessoa e aumente sua afinidade com suas companheiras de time para se aproximar delas!
Você é o rei. Você é a única salvação da escola!
CONTÉM
- 8 dungeons principais programadas para o lançamento final e mais algumas dungeons extra.
- História em estilo Visual Novel.
- Sistema de batalha baseado em Recarga de habilidades.
- Vozes em PT-BR.
- Trilha sonora estilosa!
- Vários tipos de inimigos!
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Side programming (Plugins):
- Yep (general plugins)
- MOG_Hunter (general plugins)
- Galv (general plugins)
- KotC (Minimap)
- SRD (general plugins)
- CutieVirus (MV3D)
- Quasi (QPlus plugin)
Songs:
"Prórroga de Tiempo A" by Patrick de Arteaga (patrickdearteaga.com)
"Enchanted Hollow" by Eric Matyas (soundimage.org)
"Toys Master" by ISAo (airyluvs.com)
I couldn't find the composers of the other songs to credit them. If I used your song, please, contact me to put your name here.
Updated | 2 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Release date | Aug 30, 2022 |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (7 total ratings) |
Author | NinjaDaLua |
Genre | Role Playing, Visual Novel |
Made with | RPG Maker |
Tags | Anime, First-Person, JRPG, Romance |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English, Portuguese (Brazil) |
Inputs | Keyboard |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $12.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- New bug-fix update!2 days ago
- Happy halloween!4 days ago
- Public survey!46 days ago
- Exodus Checkmate Artbook!Jul 08, 2024
- Update uploaded!Jul 01, 2024
- Summer Sale!Jun 27, 2024
- Chapter 5 is here!Jun 20, 2024
- Bringing forward the release date!Jun 19, 2024
Comments
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Hi, does anyonne know how I can progress in the first dungeon? It seems like I would need two charges of the flask, but I only have one.
You can get a second flask on the second floor/area after beating a miniboss. There's a little puzzle to get to them, but you only need 1 flask to go there.
Thank you. Finally found the way forward after running past it at least 5 times
Hello. Does anyone here know how to do the puzzle room with the battery pushing? I'm specifically talking about the one with the big room; I cannot for the life of me solve it. The orange battery in particular can't be pushed anywhere that it would shoot for the terminal. Any tips and tricks?
Hi there! Here a tutorial of how to beat that puzzle
Ninja, vo precisar do seu suporte denovo akkakakka. estou na ultima dungeon e acho que as folhas para as senhas das portas estao iguais, ambas as portas do segundo andar sao iguais a do primeiro andar. Ate tentei chutar uns deuses da babilionia mas n rolou n kaakkaka.
Consegui contornar abrindo os arquivos, mas de fato ta repetindo a primeira pagina nas portas erradas. Em especifico no segundo andar, no restante esta correto.
Eita, sério? Achei que tivesse arrumaod esse bug... Vou corrigir aqui e reupar o arquivo. Pode me dizer qual porta exatamente tá com a imagem repetida?
as duas do segundo andar.
Obrigado
Hello to you, really enjoying the game so far. I was wondering if there's a walkthrough for this game as looking it up on the internet yields no search results (I keep getting ones from Metro Exodus). Currently, I'm at the farm/fairy tale-looking place and I can't for the life of me beat this one boss character (the one that looks like Fie Claussel from the Trails of series). She abuses the checkmoves and quick attacks so much that I can't do anything at all. I tried to over-level and even switched to rookie difficulty. Nothing worked at all. Is there a tip that you can give me ? Pretty please with cherries on top~!
hi there friend! my strategy was to abuse debbufs on her agility, overlevel and luck. Stay strong!
Caraca! que orgulho de ver e jogar um projeto tão charmoso e nacional! vambora!
Mas gostaria de perguntar, em relação a afeição das personagens, o quão essencial é voltar em dungeons anteriores para subir esses pontos, o ideal é levar cada nova personagem em uma diferente dungeon(grind sinistro se sim kakakka)? E uma vez finalizada a dungeon, ao retornar pra dungeon os locais em que isso acontece ficam marcados? Pergunto de curiosidade e ansiedade mesmo, to com pouco mais de 1 hora de jogo!
Vlw e sucesso!
Opa, obrigado por testar o jogo!
Não é necessário retornar pra farmar pontos em todas as dungeons, só as 2 primeiras tem eventos novos quando se consegue a party completa. Mas mesmo se você não voltar, dá pra maximizar o nivel de afeição de pelo menos 2 ou 3 das garotas. Esses eventos estão lá mais pra complecionistas e fanservice (no quesito de ver mais interações dos personagens).
Quanto a marcação, elas ficam marcadas como os eventos padrões, você teria que procurar na dungeon por isso. Mas fiz questão de colocar esses eventos em locais mais "fáceis" de se lembrar, já imaginando em como seria a situação de voltar lá. Como na primeira dungeon, que tem um evento novo no segundo andar perto de um laguinho (o único daquele andar na dungeon.)
Fora as duas primeiras dungeons, normalmente os eventos extra estão nos andares extra das dungeons (como a quarta área do Tabuleiro da Floresta ou o quinto andar das Masmorras). Então é bem fácil de encontrá-los.
Mais uma pergunta, eu parei na dungeon que tem que coletar as chaves dos naipes do baralho, eu aceitei o acordo do belzebub, cumpri a minha parte de matar o outro caba e travei, ja rodei esse mapa ate o talo e n sei se por lerdeza minha n sei oq fazer
Você tem que voltar na sala do beelzebulb pra falar que matou o bicho, aí ele te dá a chave que falta. Mas acabei de ver que tem um bug que o trigger do evento tá invisivel por algum motivo. Pra ativar ele, fica no quadrado logo depois da porta (do lado de dentro da sala, no caso) e aperta para interagir. Estou arrumando isso agora para atualizar
Pronto, já tá atualizado
Was just made aware of this game recently and I dont regret the purchase one bit. Very charming game that scratches that dungeon crawler itch very nicely!
Thank you very much!
Amazing art direction I might pick this one up
Thank you!
Just saw this a couple hours back and got it instantly! Always wanted a chess/shogi-themed RPG that isn't just you playing the board games. And I love Mary Skelter too! Really cool you were able to get voice actors
Hm, seems my game's screen froze at some point... And the language settings are reset after I close and reopen the game. I was in the middle of a battle and the screen completely froze. It seems the functions are still working, but I couldn't see what it's doing because the screen froze. I tried minimizing and maximizing the window again, but it was still frozen. It seems to freeze from time to time during battles.
Also is there a complete list of controls? I see there's an "info" option when battlling enemies, but I don't know how to access it, or get a general guide on what the status symbols mean.
Hello there, thanks for playing! I actually don't know about this bug of the game freezing, it never happened to me or anyone on the playtest. I'll look into it.
About an info section about the status icons, there is none for now, but it's surely a good idea! I'll look into a way to implement it to the game, thank you!
Oh I meant that during the battle, when you're selecting enemies to fight, there's an "info" square that pops up. So its not a selectable button then?
But yeah, I'm a little confused about the full controls and the status icons, so I hope you could clarify them, either in game or as a comment or so. So far I've figured out NM for map, esc for the menu, and enter for selecting, but I'm not sure if there's anything else I missed.
Also, do some enemies (like those in front) take priority? Sometimes I want to select a different enemy but am unable to, but I'm guessing it has to do with having to defeat the front row enemies first?
Thank you!
Oh, I see. For now I'll add the commands to the description here at Itch, then.
Ooh thanks!
oh this was inspired by mary skelter I can tell
Yes! Mary Skelter is such a great DRPG, it inspired a lot of the mechanics and aesthetics of the game
called it, mary skelter is so fucking good ill will try this at some point when I get money lmao
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What do you mean?
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Hi Ninja :)
I am in the computer gameboard area 1 and I cannot seem to unlock the door with the computer lock.
Regardless of doing this or anything else or not even touching when I exit the characters speaks it is done and I hear the unlock sound but the door is still locked, I am not sure if it is me doing it wrong or not ?
Oh, this is weird. I'll look into it.
Hey there, Anwynn. I've looked the code and reviewed it several times, but there's nothing wrong. I can't say for sure, but maybe it is just a bug where a switch didn't activate.
However, can you send me your save file to my email? It is [email protected]
I'll review the save just to be sure.
Hi Ninja :)
I finally finished the first chapter, Interesting story and lovable characters,
good difficulty of dungeon crawler, there times I was lost hehe.
there a few sentences that are not translated in English but I do not mind about it, I get the idea and sometime things are obvious :)
Looking forward the chapter 2 ❤️❤️
Thank you so much for playing!
Which sentences weren't translated? If you find any, can you send me?
There this one when entering the hole on the wall in the second dungeon
This in battle
I do not know for the skills themselves when the characters use them, did you plan on having them translated too?
though in the menu all is in english
There are 2 time during a moment where they speak in an event where one sentence and its answer were not translated, one in the first dungeon and one in the second dungeon on one of those heart event. I think I saw one more but I cannot say for sure where it was.
For me it is not a problem at all but I am sure some people would complain about this 😓
Ohh, I see. Totally understandable. I'll look for them and post an update.
Thank you so much!
Hey there! Love the art of the game and the gameplay looks really cool!
Also, I was wondering if there's an opportunity to translate this game into Latam's Spanish, I'm willing to do it.
Thank you for the interest! Unfortunately, we have no plans of translating to any new language for now.
We hope you can enjoy the game, however!
Nice cast of characters :)
I do not know why but in my head Quinn was the main hero, looks like I must have been sleepy or something last time I saw your devlog.
That's alright, Quinn really have a main role in the game so it's just normal to confuse them.