
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. From the award-winning creators of Duskers & A Virus Named TOM.
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The Emperor wants gold, and you're just the wizard to get it. Journey into the depths with a Rook, an Archer, and maybe a spell or two. Upgrade your party, learn new skills yourself, and discover what’s really going on in the darkness below. Spend the gold you find to help you survive - or risk saving it for the Emperor.

No memorizing openings, long drawn-out endgames, or stalemates. Start with 1 piece instead of 16. Cast new pieces with exciting abilities onto the board. No analysis paralysis - enemy movement stays basic until you encounter the dungeon’s bosses… Collect Undo Tokens if you need ’em, or more gold if you don’t!

Post your epic victories as challenges to the community! Watch replays from top players to further improve your skills as you take on Daily Challenges in this massively single-player experience.

Answer simple questions based on your psychological state and relationships to your pieces as you progress through the depths of the Dungeon. Please answer openly and honestly. Your answers will not be used against you.
Explore procedural dungeons with a variety of wizards with different abilities
Outwit opponents using tactical, Chess-inspired combat
Use powerful spells and flashy explosions to shake up the board
Take psychological tests and wonder why. Everything is fine!
Try Infinite and Random Dungeon Modes
Issue challenges to other players, share replays, and compete in daily challenges against the community
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Cool graphics, freaky vaguely psychological horror stuff, short gameplay thats fun even if u rnt good at chess
Great game. I enjoy chess but not enough to play with all these crazies who play online and learn all the queen gambits and other doodads, so this game is pretty perfect for me. I can take the familiar chess strategies I know and mix them with an Inscryption-like vibe and deck builder sort of thing, and it's a lot of fun. Plays on Steam Deck just fine, although with a virtual cursor which is mildly annoying but not a big deal.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
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really fun so far, only gripe is the AI solver is a bit slow at with the rune added
I'll update my review once I've given the game a bit more playtime as I bought this during a humble bundle before it was released. I yet have to find some more time to play the game, but even with limited playtime I'm impressed. Review so far: - The art style is quite unique for a chess based game. - Music is nice and relaxing
Good fun game so far, enjoy the puzzle aspect of the game, looking forward to more updates.
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The concept is a worse game than simply playing Chess.
really scratches my into the breach itch but its really damn hard
Chess, but it's all endgames. It's everything it says on the deceptively deep box.
6/10
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