Announcement
Name Change
Hi Everyone, This update is to officially change the name of the game to Who Takes The Crown?
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Who Takes The Crown?
Also known as Who Takes The Crown?, steam:2550290, who takes crown
Test your brain and your brawn in the toughest chess game ever made! Play against the Stockfish chess engine to build your path and climb upward to claim the crown, but be careful! One small blunder and you risk losing your progress. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, but who will take it?
Last update
18 May 2026
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Update history
Browse past updates and patch notes for this game.
16 updates
May 2025
- Patch Update For Infinite Jump BugHello Everyone! A small update has been pushed out today to patch the infinite jump glitch. You can no longer get extra jumps while super jumping. If you notice anything else please let me know in the discord!
March 2025
- Small Highscore patchHello Everyone, Small patch going in based on yesterday's update. Local saves should be unaffected except for certain players. Thanks, -Doug
- Quick PatchHello Everyone! Adding in a quick patch to fix an infinity jump bug that was found. I also fixed a visual bug that was part of this glitch as well. Enjoy playing the game! -Doug
- Small UpdateHi Everyone, Another small update to help me behind the scenes. I added some extra logging in case bugs pop up. The new logs will help me address any issues quicker. I hope you are all enjoying the game! - Doug
- Tile Color FixHi Everyone! Small update today. There was an error in the movement tutorial where the custom colored tiles were not getting initialized and would not update in the gameplay settings. This has now been fixed. Thanks for…
- Small Update For Bug FixesHi Everyone! Two bug fixes are going in with this update One of the boards in the Casual mode for the Sand Kingdom has been updated so the position is no longer starting with the king in check and causing Stockfish to c…
- Hello Everyone! In today's update I have added a couple more display settings a long with some clarifications in the tutorial level. Here's what has changed: What's New General There is now FPS limiting in the display m…Patch notes
February 2025
- Custom Colors UpdateHello Everyone! This is the last content update before the games release! In this update you can expect the following: Updates You can now change the color of your pawn to be any color including black by going to the Cu…
- Checkpoints UpdateHello Everyone! In today's update I am adding checkpoints to the Adventure Mode! What does this mean? If you enable checkpoints, once you get to a new section, a button will appear at the start of the level allowing you…
January 2025
- New Animations and Performance UpdateHi Everyone! Today I have added some animations to the piece movements so that it is easier to see Stockfish's moves. You can adjust the speed of these animations in the Settings -> Gameplay options. I have also added t…
- Small Bug FixesHello everyone! Here are the fixes in today's patch: Attempting to move chess pieces from a section that you are not currently standing in will no long result in a Stockfish error. You can no longer softlock yourself by…
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Achievements
Community progression
Top picks from 30 Steam achievements, sorted by player unlock rates.
- SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!Get Checkmated, Stalemated, Or Draw 10 times30.9%
- The BasicsComplete the Tutorial Level16.6%
- As Normal As It GetsComplete the Tutorial Kingdom on Normal Difficulty13.2%
- Tutorial ApprenticeComplete the Tutorial in Under 10 Minutes on Normal Difficulty5.4%
- What... WHAT?!Complete an En Passant move5.0%
- Nice and EasyComplete the Tutorial on Casual Difficulty3.7%