Kingfall turns the chessboard into a card lane and backs it with 300 cards
A father-and-son roguelike deckbuilder that makes pawns attack diagonally and rooks block lanes, out for Steam wishlists now.
By Priya Raman, 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.
The board in Kingfall is not a board so much as a ledger. Five columns, four rows, every cell outlined in dashed white like a form waiting to be filled in, and on it sit cards that are doing two jobs at once: fighting, and reminding you what piece they used to be on a chessboard. A Pawn and a Savage Pawn sit next to each other with different stat lines. A Bishop stands between two Gallant Knights. The King cards, both enemy and player, just sit there with a heart count and no attack value at all, which tells you plainly what the actual objective is here: not attrition, checkmate. What the s...