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Board Defenders

Board Defenders is super-structuring the rules of the world’s most played game of all times - chess. A modern vision thrilling and fun fast action game, combining the pace of an arcade with the challenge of a logic puzzle - brain game, based on chess rules.

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Ludus Studio
Publisher
Ludus Studio
Release
September 6, 2016
9 years and 331 days ago
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Positive19 reviews94.7%

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Board Defenders is super-structuring the rules of the world’s most popular game of all times - chess. A modern vision thrilling and fun fast action game, combining the pace of an arcade with the challenge of a logic puzzle - brain game, based on chess rules.

  • More than hundred of levels to progress through, each introducing new challenges to solve and presenting variety of difficulties to keep you on the edge.
  • Four different unique action characters to play with, each having specific attitude on the board making the gameplay so exciting.
  • Several enemies will step against you, separately or combined in different setups to create huge variety of unique challenges and puzzles to solve.
  • Three beautiful relaxing locations to play in, each of them introducing a different game mode.
  • Get prepared for lots of achievements.
  • Challenge mode, to train your skills with specific characters and measure your score against the best around the globe.
  • Compare your scores with other players.


Board Defenders is part of the Playville Quest series.
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