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Noah Games · Published by Noah Games
Very Positive — 92% positive (62 reviews)
Last updated 6 Oct 2026
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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Indie, Strategy, Casual · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
Navigate the tactical puzzles of Tabulo, an Indie strategy game from Noah Games. Position your pieces wisely on this compact chess-inspired board while enhancing them and claiming optional challenge rewards.
About this 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
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7 or later (32-bit or 64-bit x86)
- Processor: Any x86_64 CPU
- Graphics: Integrated graphics with full OpenGL 3.3 support
- Storage: 250 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Press Coverage
Tabulo is chess meets Balatro and it's out now
Is it chess? Is it Balatro? It's both, sort of. Tabulo is a pretty clever mixture of gameplay elements that looks set to hook you in. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tabulo-is-chess-meets-balatro-and-its-out-now/Read full article on GamingOnLinuxAnnouncementsOfficial
Release Today! (15th January)
Hi everyone! Sorry about the time being wrong on the page, but we are still releasing today in a couple of hours. Thanks for your support and we look forward to the launch!Read full article on Community Announcements (Noah Games)Press Coverage
Tabulo is an upcoming Balatro-inspired chess roguelike
Another Balatro-inspired game and this time it's a chess roguelike, and one that actually looks like it could be pretty fun. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/tabulo-is-an-upcoming-balatro-inspired-chess-roguelike/Read full article on GamingOnLinuxPatch NotesOfficial
Small Demo Update!
We're looking into some ways to make scoring more impactful, so we just put out a few changes in that vein. Let us know what you think!Read full article on Community Announcements (Noah Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Small Demo Update
Changelog: Fixed issues with the collectionFixed an animation bug when picking up a piece while it's spawning inImproved support for scientific notation when displaying very large numbersRead full article on Community Announcements (Noah Games)
