
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
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 38 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
love chess only annoying thing is when the knights stick to the king so you can take it or check it :/ anyway, well made game. love it. im absolutely horrible at this though cant beat the second level yet im actually going insane
i like it
if you wanna lose all your sanity, play this game ASAP
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 suffering, I play Clash Royale). You basically need to be a freaking chess grandmaster and at the same time have platinum-level skills in Jump King, Celeste, and Super Meat Boy to play this thing. The levels are huge, and from start to finish everything can be completely reset because of a single tiny mistake. That would be fine for a rage game, if it wasn’t for the game’s bad design. In most rage games, if you mess up, you regress. Maybe the whole level, maybe just part of it. You take the L and move on. Here, not really. Since the obstacles are created while you’re playing chess against a bot, the piece you used to climb the board on move 1 might move later on move X. If you fall below that point, you can’t climb back up, you get softlocked, and you’re forced to restart the entire level. The idea sounded awesome, but unfortunately the game is extremely unbalanced. 4/10 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Vi pelo trailer achei que seria pás e tals, por misturar 2 generos de jogos que gosto, rage game com xadrez, baixei, joguei 20 minutinhos e vi que não curti muito, achei desbalenceado demais as dificuldades, ou é muito facil, ou muito dificil (Até demais para o meu gosto, e olha que gosto de sofrer, eu jogo clash royale). Porém quando joguei, meu deus do ceu, tu tem que ser literalmente um fodendo grande-mestre de xadrez e platinador de jump king, celeste e super meat boy ao mesmo tempo pra joga essa merda. As fases gigantes do começo até o fim podem ser completamente reiniciadas por um único e mísero erro, mas isso tudo bem pra um rage game, se não fosse por culpa do mal design do jogo, nos outros rage games, em maioria, tu regrediu? Nem que seja a fase inteira ou só um pouco tu engole o chore, faz o L, e tenta volta pra onde tava antes. Mas nessa maravilha não, por conta dos obstáculos serem formados enquanto tu joga xadrez contra um bot, e muitas vezes a peça X que tu usou pra escalar o tabuleiro no lance 1, vai se mover no lance Y e se tu cair para abaixo daquele tabuleiro tu não consegue subir de volta e fica softlocked, tendo que reiniciar a fase inteira. Parecia ser muito massa, mas infelizmente é muito desbalanceado. 4/10
I love this game so much.
The game is really 95% chess puzzles and 5% platforming. You can redo the same puzzle as many times as you want, so the game just becomes beating puzzles in the end.
I suck at chess
fun, engaging
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