Take the King!

Take the King!

Positive · 8 reviews

88% positive (7 / 8)

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Description

Forget (almost) everything you know about chess! Help your King to escape dangerous dungeons. Use your pieces wisely and exploit the special squares to avoid vicious traps and defeat nasty enemy pieces.

Released

November 10, 2023

Price

$6.99

Platforms

macOS · Linux · Windows

Developer

Two Buttons

Publisher

TyGAMES

Last sync

September 24, 2026

About

The august chessboard crumbles. The millennia-old battlefield, foundation of all laws, has been desecrated. Is the era of symmetrical confrontations over?

How to govern a crumbling kingdom? How to restore the balance of all things? First victim of this cataclysm, will the brave King be able to survive in his quest for great harmony?

Concept

Take the King! is a puzzle game based on the rules of chess, reimagined to offer original intellectual challenges. While your pieces move normally, the chessboard is anything but standard, and you have a variety of goals.

  • Help the King on his great quest.
  • Try to solve the hundred puzzles the game offers you.
  • Complete secondary objectives to unlock bonuses.
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