
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?
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Who Takes The Crown? is about controlling a little pawn and getting to the top of each level to claim your crown. Play through various chess games to build your platforms and climb higher and higher. Be careful though, much like the game of chess, the movement of your pawn requires timing and patience. One wrong maneuver could send you tumbling back down to the bottom of the level and start you over.

It's not only about your platforming skill either. One blunder in any of the chess games could send you back as well!

Something for everyone!
Not a fan of rage games but like chess? Not to worry! Who Takes The Crown? has a Casual difficulty that lets you turn off the jump failure and features game boards that are more about puzzling than platforming.
Like puzzle platformers but aren't as strong at chess? No problem! This game includes custom settings so you can adjust the Stockfish ELO and the difficulties of the chess positions to your desire.
Looking for a hard challenge to put all your skills to the test? Who Takes The Crown? has challenges of all types including procedurally generated chess boards to conquer!
Adventure
This is the main game mode in Who Takes the Crown? Start from the bottom of the map and make your way very high up to claim the crown. The map contains many chess games for you to navigate through. There are varying difficulties for all kinds of skill levels. The chess games are played against the Stockfish chess engine so make sure to have your thinking cap on!

There are three main difficulties to the Adventure Mode
Casual
1000 Stockfish Elo
Jump Failure Turned Off
Resets/Restarts Go To Your Current Section
Normal
1300 Stockfish Elo
Jump Failure Turned On
Resets/Restarts Go To Your Current Section
Immortal
1600 Stockfish Elo
Jump Failure Turned On
Resets/Restarts Go To The Beginning Of The Level
Use your chess skills to checkmate Stockfish and gain a power up to help you navigate difficult boards!

Stacks
This game mode is similar to the Adventure mode but it is more puzzle based and much shorter. There are seven boards stacked straight on top of each other. Climb them as quick as you can!
There are three main stacks:
Modern Classics - Games from recent history,
Influencers - Famous games played by internet celebrities,
Endless - Procedurally generated games based on a seed value

Completing each Adventure Mode and Stacks maps will enter you into a highscores list with your fastest time. If you are the fastest player to complete a level your name will be displayed on the crown at the top of each level for everyone else to see!

Disclaimer: This game is not associated with or endorsed by a board game called "Who Wears The Crown?" by Blue Heron Entertainment LLC.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Arabic*, Japanese*, Korean*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese*, Polish*, Portuguese - Brazil**languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 38 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
This game mixes chess with a jump-and-run adventure! ♟️ Play as a pawn, jump, run, and think smart. Colorful graphics, great music, and exciting levels make it super fun. Perfect for chess fans and adventure lovers!
Great game if you're a fan of platformers and chess, and some help even if you're not a chess expert! Definitely recommend :)
Awesome Game! Hopefully I can get all the achievements
Pretty fun game, I like the twist of doing parkour but also having to move my chess pieces around to get the platform that I want and was not always going as planned haha. Even after clearing a board, I was trying to play at times to see if I can still checkmate the other king. Overall really fun and can see as being addicting but also frustrating when I get set back. 5/5 :)
Fun game if you love platformers and chess. This game provides a fun mix of both and can be challenging
Getting over it, но для шахматных гениев.
This is really rad. Me and my brother had a blast. Can't wait for more updates. Need a better system to run it tho. Still the little bit that i played was really fun and well crafted.
have not finished once, amazing experience
Great game I've been having a lot a of fun
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