Developer posts and news about this game.
Enemies can now drop items when they die. A gold bag or a healing crystal might appear next to the defeated opponent. When you move one of your chess pieces close to the loot it will get pulled in and collected automatically. Crystals give you a small heal and a bit of experience
This update brings a few minor improvements. Player Units Bears can now move one tile in every direction instead of just diagonally but after moving there is a one turn cooldown. Witches teleport now has a one turn cooldown and their health is slightly increased. Too many cooks i
Small patch with boss tweaks Emperor: More health. Last phase now spawns more adds. The main attacks Shock-wave and Whirlwind have been easier to avoid. Empress: More health. Dragon: Destroying a dragon egg now enrages the boss. Longer cast-time on Dragon's Breath making it easie
Leaning into the rogue-like genre more with randomly generated environments, randomized enemies and randomized boss fights. A character progression system has been added with level ups where you may choose which chess pieces to upgrade. Maps All maps have been revamped and some m
Maps rework A lot of maps will be scrapped and instead completely new maps that are large but segmented into smaller fights will be added. You fight one small chessboard at a time and when the board is cleared you get to choose a path. You can see all the enemies in the next enco
Infinity Mode: Increased camera movement range. Adds can now spawn with bosses. More the further you get. Multiple bosses can now spawn at the same time. Wave 50+. Standard Mode: Removed the Gauntlet level. Added more treasure chests on a few levels.
Boss difficulty increase Dire bear boss is now larger and takes up 4 tiles like other bosses and has gotten more health. Dragon's breath deals more damage and set its targets on fire. The dragons melee attacks is more limited, only in front. Fixed broken units Cannon can now fire
Tooltips Holding down the control button will show all units equipment tool-tips above their heads when the equipment menus are open. Useful when you don't know if the item your dragging is better than the one that's already equipped. The equipment icons above the chess pieces he
New language added: German Game is playable in English, Portuguese, Swedish and now also German! Balance Changes You can no longer buy the same talent multiple times (except the bottom row with chess pieces, potions and weapons). The issue was being able to stack multiple Axe Spe
Patched the saving system - You can now resume a saved game Fixed an issue where you would lose your inventory, talents and equipment when relaunching the game. You can now resume play on the level you reached last played. But you will start at the beginning of the level with the
Petrified Pawns contains 18 standard maps with differing win conditions. Some levels you have to slay a boss, others you just need to reach the end. In the new play mode Infinity there is no end, no win condition. You simply try to reach as far as you can until you die. More and
Seeing players try the demo during next fest has giving a lot of valuable feedback so I've made a couple of adjustments to the game. The order of Turn-Based Movement and Attacks More Strategic Players expected the chess pieces to behave a certain way and to be able to avoid takin
Demo Content Play the five first levels where the difficulty ramps up quickly and you only have the bare bones weapons, talents and inventory. You will have to play strategically here because you're not yet able to make a powerful build. Units Add a new chess piece to your group
New playable units The Crossbow: A ranged unit who shoots arrows from distance. The Warlock: A caster who fires off fireballs from distance. New maps The demo now consists of the first 5 levels of the full game. It starts with a tutorial and then ramps up in difficulty The Beginn
Updated the movement to be faster and more responsive. Attacks are also faster and more consistent and your now able to instantly deal a killing blow to a low health opponent that has less health than your unit has strength. You can do so by moving your unit to a tile with a yell