Board Defenders

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Board Defenders

Short description

Board Defenders is super-structuring the rules of the world’s most played game of all times - chess. A modern vision thrilling and fun fast action game, combining the pace of an arcade with the challenge of a logic puzzle - brain game, based on chess rules.

Developer
Ludus Studio
Publisher
Ludus Studio
Release
Tue, Sep 06, 2016
Price
$4.99
Reviews
5
Positive
100%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
0 – 20K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Casual, Indie, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards
Tags
Strategy Tabletop Indie Casual Chess
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$1ksomewhere between $499 and $2k · roughly 100–400 copies

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History

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