Fit check
Is Crowntakers worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who want turn-based tactical battles with procedural replay structure
- Strategy fans who enjoy managing a mercenary party across changing environments
- Fantasy game players who prefer quests with resource gathering and time-limited objectives
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking real-time combat rather than turn-based encounters on hexagonal battlefields
- Players who prefer a fixed campaign and predictable maps over procedurally rebuilt worlds
- Players looking for multiplayer features rather than a party-based fantasy quest
- Players wanting a modern, non-fantasy setting instead of medieval fantasy
Our take on Crowntakers
The store framing emphasizes epic adventure, but the core structure is a compact roguelike campaign: repeated procedural runs, party management, and a race against time. The changing map is central to the experience rather than a backdrop for a long, fixed medieval quest.
What is Crowntakers?
Crowntakers is a turn-based strategy RPG set in a medieval fantasy kingdom after the king is abducted.
Each game rebuilds the world with different environments and encounters, requiring changing strategies across mountain passes, castles, and other procedural regions. Players form a party by hiring mercenaries, including archers, wizards, and scouts, then face bandits, animals, and knights on hexagonal battlefields. Quests, resource gathering, character progression, equipment, and potions support the journey. The campaign includes a time limit and alternative endings based on whether the king is rescued before time runs out.
How Crowntakers plays
- 01Procedural game worlds
- Each new game rearranges environments and encounters, including more than 4 types of regions.
- 02Mercenary party building
- Players can hire 9 individual mercenaries with different class abilities.
- 03Hexagonal battles
- Combat takes place against bandits, wildlife, and knights on hex-based battlefields.
- 04Party progression
- Companions can gain levels while the party collects equipment, resources, and potions.
- 05Time-limited endings
- The outcome changes depending on whether the king is saved before the quest timer expires.
Crowntakers compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown also combines turn-based combat with roguelike progression, but centers on positioning, attack tiles, combos, and deck building before a final fight with the Shogun. Crowntakers instead focuses on party recruitment, hexagonal battles, procedural environments, quests, resources, and a timed rescue campaign.
Crowntakers: platforms & release
Is Crowntakers worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who want turn-based tactical battles with procedural replay structure. Skip it if: players seeking real-time combat rather than turn-based encounters on hexagonal battlefields.
Where can I download Crowntakers?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Crowntakers's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Crowntakers on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
