Who Takes The Crown?
Precision puzzle platforming built around climbing through chess games
devthedoug · Released Mar 11, 2025
- Reviews
- Positive
- 84% of 38
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 0
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update
- 1 year ago
- Jul 29, 2025
Free demo available, 0 playing it now: get the demo.
What is Who Takes The Crown??
A 2D side-scrolling puzzle platformer where you control a pawn, climb chessboard-based levels, and play chess positions against the Stockfish engine. Adventure mode sends you upward to claim a crown, while shorter Stacks maps emphasize puzzles, speed, and generated challenges.
For you if...
- +you like combining difficult platforming with chess puzzles
- +you want adjustable chess and platforming difficulty settings
- +you enjoy seeded challenges and high-score runs
Not for you if...
- −you dislike precision jumps and repeated climbs after mistakes
- −you have no interest in playing chess against AI
Screenshots and trailer
Who Takes The Crown? system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Dual Core 2.4 Ghz
- Graphics
- GTX 760
- Memory
- 2000 MB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Notes
- 64 Bit Architecture Required to Run Stockfish
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Dual Core 2.4 Ghz
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Notes
- 64 Bit Architecture Required to Run Stockfish
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 30
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil.
Tags
- Strategy
- Precision Platformer
- Difficult
- Singleplayer
- Side Scroller
- 2D Platformer
- Puzzle Platformer
- Souls-like
- Puzzle
- Platformer
- 2D
- Action
- Funny
- Psychological Horror
- Adventure
- Pixel Graphics
Recent updates
- Jul 29, 2025 · Name Change
- May 28, 2025 · Patch Update For Infinite Jump Bug
- Mar 21, 2025 · Small Highscore patch
- Mar 21, 2025 · Quick Patch
- Mar 16, 2025 · Small Update
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