Crown of Pain

Match-3 RPG where tile colors control your party's attacks

Jagit Games, Coldwild Games · Published by Coldwild Games · Released Apr 9, 2024

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 73% of 90
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 2 years ago; Apr 16, 2024
Minimum PC: DX10; 0.5 GB RAM · 0.1 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Crown of Pain?

In this single-player, 2D RPG, troubled heroes enter a medieval castle seeking a crown said to end their worries. You travel across a map, fight turn-based puzzle battles, and choose heroes, active abilities, and individual upgrades for your party.

For you if...

+you enjoy setting up chain reactions in match-3 puzzles
+you prefer simple RPG systems over complex character management

Not for you if...

−you expect special tiles and changing battle rules

What players say

73% of 90 reviews are positive

Players praise the pixel art, bleak atmosphere, and interactions between character skills. Common complaints include slow, repetitive progression, limited explanations, and tile drags that fail to register.

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Crown of Pain system requirements

Minimum: DX10, 0.5 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7 (SP1+) or later
Processor: Intel Core Duo or later (x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support)
Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Storage: 100 MB available space

Does Crown of Pain have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Crown of Pain run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 12
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: English, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese.

Does Crown of Pain use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam