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Take the King!

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.

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Developer
Two Buttons
Publisher
TyGAMES
Release
November 10, 2023
2 years and 266 days ago
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About the Game

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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