Petrified Pawns

Short description

Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells. Make your units stronger by equipping weapons and armor and by upgrading stats as you level up. Become powerful enough to take down giant bosses!

Developer: Bepansrad Studio
Publisher: Bepansrad Studio
Release: Tue, Mar 04, 2025
Price: $5.99
Reviews: 16
Positive: 88%
Followers: n/a
Owners (estimated): 20K – 50K
Concurrent players: 1
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Features: Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, Stereo Sound, Steam Leaderboards
Tags: Turn-Based Tactics Chess Dungeon Crawler Turn-Based Combat Grid-Based Movement Party-Based RPG Strategy Boss Rush Turn-Based Strategy Rogue-like Auto Battler Loot Isometric Inventory Management Singleplayer Stylized Combat Magic PvE 3D

Revenue (estimated, gross)~$4ksomewhere between $2k and $300k · roughly 320–50K copies

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Wizardry 8	Sir-Tech Canada first game	3	− Turn-Based Tactics − Chess − Grid-Based Movement + RPG + Classic + First-Person	$9.99	1,070	89%	Tue, Sep 10, 2013	$430k $191k – $1.8m
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