Death Crown
Minimalist real-time strategy with continuously spawning troops and drawn attack routes
5WORD Team · Released Aug 23, 2019
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 88% of 555
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 29, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Last update on Steam
- 3 months ago
- Jul 5, 2026
What is Death Crown?
You play as Death in a 2D dark fantasy strategy campaign against a king who refuses to die. You place gold-producing mines, troop-producing barracks, and defensive towers, then upgrade your forces as you advance through his kingdom.
For you if...
- +you want local cooperative campaigns or competitive battles
Not for you if...
- −you prefer slow planning to rapid building placement
What players say
88% of 555 reviews are positive
Players praise the artwork, cutscenes, and easy-to-learn rules. Complaints focus on the short campaign, limited strategic variety, and uneven difficulty.
Screenshots and trailer
Death Crown system requirements
Minimum: GT, 2 GB RAM, 0.3 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Death Crown?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7
- Processor
- 1.6 Ghz
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GT/s 4xx or equivalent
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- You must have a keyboard/mouse+gamepad or two gamepads for playing together and for cooperative play.
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 8/10
- Processor
- 2.4 GHZ
- Graphics
- NVIDIA Geforce 600 series or higher
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- You must have a keyboard/mouse+gamepad or two gamepads for playing together and for cooperative play.
Does Death Crown have co-op or multiplayer?
Yes: co-op split-screen; PvP split-screen. It also has a single-player mode. With Remote Play Together, one copy is enough to play the local modes online with friends.
Does Death Crown run on Steam Deck?
Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 22
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal, Ukrainian, Serbian.
Does Death Crown 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
Tags
- RTS
- Dark Fantasy
- Hand-drawn
- Difficult
- Pixel Graphics
- Stylized
- Real Time Tactics
- Tower Defense
- Medieval
- Controller
- 2D
- Minimalist
- Abstract
- Strategy
- PvP
- Wargame
Recent updates
- Jul 2, 2026 · Death Crown - Small Update
- Jul 17, 2024 · Small update
- Jul 20, 2023 · Small update
- Mar 31, 2021 · Small Cutscenes Update
- Feb 21, 2021 · Small update
2 DLC available.
