Crow Circuit Chess asks you to swear an oath before you touch a piece
A free browser chess game where you can bind yourself to a vow before the first move, then spend a hundred levels finding out if you kept it.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Before a single pawn moves, Crow Circuit Chess wants a promise out of you. The match screenshot on ArcadeReboot's page shows a Crown Oath panel sitting right of the board, offering Open Hand for no vow at all, Pure Mind for ninety points if you win with no hints and no retries, and Swift Crown for eighty. The pitch says the server tracks whichever you pick live, and only a kept vow on a won game pays out. That is a more interesting hook than most chess apps bother with, because it turns a single-player match into a small, self-imposed dare. Swear first, play second The vow sits on top of wh...