ChronoPath Gambit

Step onto a tactical battleground where foresight is your greatest weapon. In ChronoPath Gambit, you don't wait for your turn—you anticipate your enemy's. This is a duel of wits, where every move happens at once.

What is ChronoPath Gambit?

ChronoPath Gambit is a turn-based strategy game with a crucial twist: all players execute their turns simultaneously.

Forget about initiative or who goes first. Here, you must predict your opponent's actions, countering a move they haven't even made yet. It’s a tense game of territory control, elemental dominance, and psychological warfare where the smartest plan, not the fastest click, wins the day.

Key Features

• 🔮 Simultaneous Turns: The core of the game. Plan your move, lock it in, and watch as everyone's actions unfold at the same time. It's the ultimate test of prediction.
• ✨ Clashing Auras: Every element you place projects a powerful aura onto adjacent tiles. When your aura overlaps an enemy's, a battle of dominance begins, governed by a unique five-element cycle.
• 🌫️ Dynamic Fog of War: You can't see the entire board. Expand your territory by placing elements to reveal the map, uncover your opponent's strategy, and create vital supply chains that power your assault.
• 🔥 Elemental Dominance: Master an expanded Rock-Paper-Scissors-style system. Every element counters two others, creating a deep and constantly shifting strategic landscape.
  • Fire melts Air and Ether
  • Air erodes Water and Earth
  • Earth grounds Fire and Ether
  • Ether dissipates Air and Water
  • Water extinguishes Earth and Fire
• 🎯 Simple Goal, Deep Strategy: The objective is simple: destroy the enemy's Base by overwhelming it with your elemental auras. The path to victory is a complex web of feints, blocks, strategic sacrifices, and perfectly timed placements.

How a Turn Works

1. Choose an Element from your panel.
2. Place it on any valid, highlighted tile connected to your territory.
3. Lock In your move by pressing the "End Turn" button.
4. Watch the Sync! Both your and the AI's moves are revealed and executed. Auras are projected, damage is dealt, and a new turn begins.

❗ This is an Early Prototype (MVP) ❗

ChronoPath Gambit is a Minimum Viable Product. The core mechanics are in place, but it is far from finished. It has been built to test the fundamental concept of simultaneous turns and clashing auras.

Your feedback is the most valuable resource! Please leave your thoughts, bug reports, and ideas in the comments section below. You are helping to shape the future of this game.

Controls

• Select Element: Left Mouse Button on the UI panel.
• Place Element: Left Mouse Button on the board.
• Pan Camera: Hold Spacebar + Left Mouse Button and Drag.
• Cancel Selection: Right Mouse Button.

Used graphics:

https://game-icons.net/1x1/carl-olsen/flame.html

https://game-icons.net/1x1/skoll/laser-burst.html

https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/peaks.html

https://game-icons.net/1x1/delapouite/waterfall.html

https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/wind-hole.html