Slay the King
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About the game
Chess, but you build an army, bolt game-breaking augments onto your pieces, and tear through realms of enemies. Exploding pawns, bishops that cleanse the board with holy fire, a king that ascends into a demon slaying god. Stack upgrades, ascend, get rich, Slay The King.
Original Steam description
Slay the King:
A chess roguelike where you don't play chess, you break it, or it breaks you.
Every piece has augment slots. Fill them from a pool of over a hundred upgrades, Movement, Combat, Support, and the rare, build-defining Prismatic:
Deal with the Devil - a pawn that moves like a queen. If it dies, you lose 20 HP.
Unstable TNT - a pawn that explodes after 1–6 turns. Or when eaten. Good luck.
Blunder?? - once per fight, rewind the battle four turns.
Combine the right augments and a piece ascends. Crown a Doom Slaying King at the cost of your own queen. Or unleash the Mentally Unstable Pawn with a Gambling Addiction, yes, that's a real ascension, and yes, it gambles.
Beat the game once and the board itself starts to bend. From the classics, to entirely new ways to play!
Shifting Board - the center four-by-four rotates 90° mid-fight, pieces and all.
Gamblers Sigil – Bet your turn on a coin flip, all or nothing.
Many more!
The board is set. The King is waiting.
Go take his crown.
Demo and release information
No demo is verified in the current check data. This does not mean the game has never had a demo; check its Steam page for current availability.
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