CROWN & COUP

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DEVELOPER: Kristiyan Ivanov - solo developer
GAME: Crown & Coup - a chess roguelike
RELEASE: November 2026 (planned) · free demo out now
STEAM NEXT FEST: October 19-26, 2026 - demo participating
PRICE: $11.99 USD
PLATFORMS: Windows & Linux, via Steam
LANGUAGES: English · 日本語 · 简体中文 · 한국어 · Русский · Български
ENGINE: Custom - TypeScript + PixiJS
PRESS CONTACT: k.ivanow@gmail.com
MUSIC: R.T. Batista

DESCRIPTION

Chess is the deck. Draft an army, march it through escalating sieges, and stack stratagems until one rook move scores like an avalanche. A score-chasing roguelike where every capture feeds the combo - and checkmate is the jackpot.

Crown & Coup is a single-player roguelike built on chess bones: each run you lead one of nine monarchs, deploy a hand-drafted army, and besiege a series of score targets. Captures earn might, stratagems multiply it, and the numbers climb from “polite opening” to “the scoreboard needs more digits.”

Battlefields grow with your legend - from a knife-fight 3×3 to a sprawling 12×12, with a rule-bending boss siege closing every act. Clear the siege and bank your score, or hunt the enemy king: checkmate pays a jackpot, and a miss only costs your unused moves.

KEY FEATURES

117 stratagems - passive war-machines that trigger on captures, chains, files and sacrifices. Six at a time; order matters; nonsense combos are the point.
Nine monarchs with distinct passives - necromancy, blood rage, farsight, an economy of drilled pawns.
Battlefields from 3×3 to 12×12, with boss sieges that bend the rules of chess itself.
Runestones socket into individual pieces; banners level whole piece types; the Black Market sells both.
Bank the siege or go for mate - a push-your-luck jackpot on every cleared board.
Fully localized in six languages, all on a hand-picked pixel grid.

trailer: download 1080p mp4

Crown and Coup wide key art — key art - wide (3840×1240)download

Crown and Coup main capsule art — key art (1232×706)download

Crown and Coup header capsule art — header art (460×215)download

Choosing a monarch from nine animated crests — monarch selectdownload

A siege with a loaded rail of six stratagems — six stratagems, one war machinedownload

A capture combo stacking might and mult into the score — every capture feeds the combodownload

The siege-cleared decision: cash out or go for mate — bank it - or go for matedownload

The Black Market shop with stratagems, packs and banners — the Black Marketdownload

A boss siege with an active decree bending the rules — boss sieges bend the rulesdownload

A sprawling 12 by 12 battlefield late in a run — the 12×12 endgamedownload

The checkmate jackpot climax — checkmate is the jackpotdownload

Deploying a drafted army before the siege — deploy your armydownload

Socketing a runestone into a piece at the shop — socket runestones into piecesdownload

Opening a pack of stratagems at the Black Market — pack openingdownload

The cash-out receipt totting up the siege's earnings — the cash-out receiptdownload

The collection catalog of stratagems — the collectiondownload

The victory screen after a crowned run — victorydownload

VIDEO & STREAMING PERMISSION

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ABOUT THE DEVELOPER

Crown & Coup is made by Kristiyan Ivanov, a solo developer from Bulgaria, with original music by R.T. Batista. It began as a simple question - what if chess snowballed like a roguelike deckbuilder? - and grew into nine monarchs, 117 stratagems and a scoreboard that needs more digits.