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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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About Slay the King

Slay the King

A chess roguelike where you don't play chess, you break it, or it breaks you.

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Every piece has augment slots. Fill them from a pool of over a hundred upgrades, Movement, Combat, Support, and the rare, build-defining Prismatic:

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Deal with the Devil - a pawn that moves like a queen. If it dies, you lose 20 HP.
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Unstable TNT - a pawn that explodes after 1–6 turns. Or when eaten. Good luck.
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Blunder?? - once per fight, rewind the battle four turns.
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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.

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Beat the game once and the board itself starts to bend. From the classics, to entirely new ways to play!

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Shifting Board - the center four-by-four rotates 90° mid-fight, pieces and all.
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Gamblers Sigil – Bet your turn on a coin flip, all or nothing.
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Many more!

The board is set. The King is waiting.

Go take his crown.

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