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Who Takes The Crown?

83% positive of 37 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by devthedoug.

About the game

Test your brain and your brawn in the toughest chess game ever made! Play against the Stockfish chess engine to build your path and climb upward to claim the crown, but be careful! One small blunder and you risk losing your progress. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, but who will take it?

Tagged by players

  • Precision Platformer
  • Souls-like
  • Difficult
  • Side Scroller
  • Puzzle Platformer
  • 2D Platformer
  • Platformer
  • Strategy
  • Psychological Horror
  • Puzzle
  • Funny
  • Logic

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Been playing throughout game's development, I want to say I'm having a good time playing but I suck at chess and platforming. Well made game and exactly what you expect from a ball busting foddian experience. Got 10 keys to giveaway for peeps that want to try out, shoot me a dm

    1.7 h played when written. 15 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    such a good game! brings a new twist on a platform game by adding chess. has a good balance in difficultly making it enjoyable to play without being to easy to beat. it is going to give me hours of fun.

    1.3 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Review in english above and portuguese below btw: (review em ingles encima, brasileiro em baixo) I saw the trailer and thought it looked kinda cool, mixing two genres I like, rage game and chess. Downloaded it, played for about 20 minutes, and realized it just wasn’t for me. The difficulty feels insanely unbalanced, it’s either way too easy or stupidly hard (and that’s saying something, because I actually enjoy…

    20 min played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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