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Tabulo

Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.

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January 15, 2026
198 days ago
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About the Game

Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.

  • Build a unique chess board every run

  • Choose from different pieces with different synergies

                                   

                                   

  • Increase your score with 100 different tiles

  • Every tiles has its own unique effect

  • Discover powerful combinations

                      

                                    

                                    

  • Grow your collection by discovering and unlocking new pieces, tiles, boards and coins

                    

                                                          

Features

  • Several chess pieces to add to your board

  • 100  tiles, each with its unique ability

  • 10 boards with different modifiers to choose from every run

  • 25 coins that can modify your pieces, board and impact every run

  • 8 difficulty levels that provide unique and increasingly harder challenges

  • 20 bosses that make every run a new challenge