Once a Pawn a King

Got a bug that softlock the game within 10 minutes of playing.

This game deserves more love. I don't play chess often. I know how to play, but I barley have over 700 elo on chess.com. Despite my lack of skill, I still find this game super enjoyable! It has satisfying animations, appealing visuals, and is overall super easy to play! You don't need to be some chess grandmaster to enjoy the game, and that is one of the best features. The story is entertaining, most of the pieces have a unique personality, and the music matches the theme very well. Overall, this game deserves a much larger community because this game is better than over half the games EA is developing these days. If you are thinking about buying this game, just do it. It's super cheap and if you don't like it, you can just issue a refund. At least give this game a chance.

It was a great game, but somehow its even more buggy on release than it was in early access. Visuals will stay on certain abilities and completely cover areas, sometimes you can see full patrol rotations of the white pieces, but its completely random when you can and can't see them, loading into a new room you will sometimes be completely unable to place pieces and have to fully exit the game and reload it to fix the issue.

I've softlocked the tutorial twice by just playing the game. It wasn't ready for release. Getting a refund.

棋子有血量和攻击力，更类似战棋+解谜，可以买一次性道具、技能，技能还可以升级，每次战斗地形、敌人、障碍物、宝箱、特殊门之类都是随机的，甚至可以退出重进刷新。还是挺有趣的，之前B站上传过试玩视频，主要是很喜欢国际象棋，沾边的游戏都想试试，打折21挺值得，希望正式版能再多加点内容，单词虽然不复杂，有中文会更好增加销量一点吧，也想要创意工坊

Have crashed 5 times in 14 minutes, from black screens, to soft locks the game is just unplayable and should not have been released to 1.0 yet, also cant seem to find any responses from the Developers about any planned fixes and still hasn't been a 1.0+ patch to date despite the very common complaints.

I think its important for people to understand that more then this game is a chess rogue-like, its a chess **themed** rogue-like. and thats a critical distinction. yes, while its true that the core "unit" movement works like traditional chess, on a macro level it plays similer to games like Into The Breach. and so, even though there are some kinks that need to be ironed out, if you like tactical games that require you to put in a lot of thought before each action you take - then I highly reccomand giving this game a shot.

слишком много багов, причем очевидных и блокирующих игру, способности, взятие фигур. Ты можешь сколько угодно продумывать идеальную комбинацию, но всё пойдёт нахрен когда одна из твоих фигур тупо откажется применять например телепортацию или зелье

I think this game's downfall has 2 main people to blame. To make a long story short, Cloverbite could have been a successful publisher if greed and money weren't the main motivator to making games. The game by itself is fine I guess? it has its own charm, not a too steep learning curve, but its boring. Don't buy games from Cloverbite until they change their policies as to how students get paid for the time they invest in games.

even though I only play for 5 hours, it already ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun! I love the idea of this. I will love to see more stuff added into this! and I will recommend you to get it, probably better on sale. but it still worth a cost. (Only issues is that there bug where I can't place down chess at all, or do action which mostly will end my run since I can't do anything)