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Take the King!

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…

10 November 2023

Take the King! is a card & board game developed by Two Buttons, released 10 November 2023 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac.

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What Take the King! is

Take the King! is a card & board game game developed by Two Buttons and released in 2023. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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?
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Take the King! launched on 10 November 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and The Talos Principle II.

Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, The Talos Principle II.

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When did Take the King! come out?
Take the King! was released on 10 November 2023 for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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