StrategyFit check
Is Who Takes The Crown? worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Chess players who want platforming layered onto chess positions
- Puzzle-platformer fans who enjoy timing and restart pressure
- Players seeking adjustable chess difficulty and procedural challenges
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for a conventional chess game without platforming movement
- Players who prefer forgiving progression over resets after mistakes
- Players seeking long-form exploration rather than compact climbs and stacked boards
Our take on Who Takes The Crown?
Its defining structure is the link between chess mistakes and physical progress: a blunder or failed jump can send the pawn backward while it climbs toward the crown.
What is Who Takes The Crown??
Control a pawn through platforming levels built from chess games, climbing upward to claim a crown.
Each chess position is played against the Stockfish engine, and a blunder can send progress backward. Movement requires timing and patience: a failed maneuver may return the pawn to the level's bottom. Adventure mode offers Casual, Normal, and Immortal settings with Stockfish ratings of 1000, 1300, and 1600. Casual disables jump failure, while Immortal sends restarts to the level's beginning. Stacks presents seven boards in vertical layouts, including historical games, internet-celebrity games, and procedurally generated games based on a seed. Completion times enter highscores, with the fastest player's name shown on the level crown.
How Who Takes The Crown? plays
- 01Chess Platforming
- Chess positions determine the climb while pawn movement is handled through timing-based platforming.
- 02Three Adventure Settings
- Casual, Normal, and Immortal use Stockfish ratings of 1000, 1300, and 1600 with different restart rules.
- 03Vertical Stack Boards
- The Stacks mode places seven chess boards above one another for shorter, puzzle-focused runs.
- 04Procedural Chess Games
- Endless Stacks generates games from a seed value.
- 05Fastest-Time Highscores
- Completed Adventure and Stacks maps record completion times and display the fastest player's name on the crown.
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Anteater GamesFor:Puzzle-platformer fans who want environmental manipulation at the center of playSkip if:Players seeking combat-focused action rather than puzzle solving and platforming
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Who Takes The Crown?: platforms & release
Is Who Takes The Crown? worth it?
It is worth it if: chess players who want platforming layered onto chess positions. Skip it if: players looking for a conventional chess game without platforming movement.
Where can I download Who Takes The Crown??
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What platforms is Who Takes The Crown? on?
Windows only.
