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.

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Planned Release Date: 2027

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About This Game

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.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Any dual-core ~2.0GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1, Intel HD 3000
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11 64-bit
    • Processor: Any quad-core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Any dedicated GPU since 2015
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: MacOS
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel core Mac
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Any
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: MacOS
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel core Mac
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Any
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Any Linux, SteamOS
    • Processor: Any dual-core ~2.0GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Any
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Any Linux, SteamOS
    • Processor: Any quad-core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Any
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
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