Petrified Pawns

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• Patch Notes·8 Feb 2026Official

  Looting gold and crystals - Patch 2.0.4

  Enemies can now drop items when they die. A gold bag or a healing crystal might appear next to the defeated opponent. When you move one of your chess pieces close to the loot it will get pulled in and collected automatically. Crystals give you a small heal and a bit of experience. Gold gives you a higher score on the leader boards.New abilityMarching Forward - heals all your units each time you advance to a new chessboard. You need to unlock this spell in the upgrade menu when you level up for it to become active.GameplayAdded 2 more map layouts to the standard levels for more variation in the randomly generated worlds.Griffin’s ability chain lightning now deals 33% less damage.Poison now deals 2 damage per stack each turn instead of 1. Lasts for 10 turns.Enemies can now be harmed by fire.Loot tables for the different maps have been tweaked, legendary items no longer drop on the first level.UIYou can now see the progression of the current run in the loading screen. There are 6 rectangles that each gets filled in as you complete a map.Combat log now displays the game of more spells.The list of damage done at the end screen is now correct and has more info in it. Change the name of the points you collect from score to gold. In the future you might be able to spend the gold at a merchant.Bug fixesSome achievements were completed by default, this is now fixed.Spell upgrades now properly reset on a new game.Fixed an issue where a player's items were sometimes replaced when entering a new map.The player movement of the bear and the witch now works as intended. There was an issue where the cooldown kept resetting if you clicked too fast.
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• Patch Notes·21 Jan 2026Official

  Patch 2.0.3 - Clarity

  This update brings a few minor improvements.Player UnitsBears can now move one tile in every direction instead of just diagonally but after moving there is a one turn cooldown.Witches teleport now has a one turn cooldown and their health is slightly increased.Too many cooks in the kitchenWhen you have too many units and need to leave a chess piece behind... The piece you chose to abandon will now be colored in red and you can undo this choice by moving that unit.Enemy KnightsImprovement to the AI so that knights will move more often.Laser OrbThe laser orb obstacle now disables when you have cleared the chessboard. The fire damage visual effect now ends after a turn.InterfaceNext to each chess piece icon on the left hand side of the UI there's now an ability slot, to make it easy to see what the units special healing spell does.There is also weapon and armor icons next to the portraits when you open up the equipment menus.When you abandon a chess piece it will now disappear from this panel.Armor ItemsAdded color to some armor items icons to make them easier to differentiate.AchievementThe achievements "Calculated Moves 1" and "Deathless Run 1" should now work properly.LanguagesAdded localization for Russian, Polish and Italian.
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• Patch Notes·10 Jan 2026Official

  Tougher Boss Fights

  Small patch with boss tweaksEmperor:More health.Last phase now spawns more adds.The main attacks Shock-wave and Whirlwind have been easier to avoid.Empress:More health. Dragon:Destroying a dragon egg now enrages the boss.Longer cast-time on Dragon's Breath making it easier to avoid.Main attack Swipe and Bite occur more often and without delay.Grim Reaper:Teleports to more random tiles more often.Rotates to a nearby player, making his main attack more deadly.Throne room map: Blocked off a section of the 3rd floor that was difficult to get to and unnecessarily large.High-scoreHigh-score calculations should be more accurate and the leader-board should update after a complete run.
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• Patch Notes·6 Jan 2026Official

  2.0 Update - Major Overhaul Patch

  Leaning into the rogue-like genre more with randomly generated environments, randomized enemies and randomized boss fights. A character progression system has been added with level ups where you may choose which chess pieces to upgrade.MapsAll maps have been revamped and some maps have been removed.Large maps are split into smaller chessboards. Fight one chessboard at a time. All units will move together to the next chessboard.You can pick your route as you advance through a map: Avoid certain enemies or seek out better rewards.Hazardous obstacles are randomly placed throughout the levels, they hinder your movement or damages you if you walk into them.PlayerNew playable chess pieces. Witch, Bear, Cobra, Warlock, Crossbow.Start as a different hero, you no longer need to have a king. (Only kings get instantly checkmated when they die)You can now gain experience and level up.When you level up you can upgrade unit archetypes or magical spells.A lot more opportunities to add chess pieces to your group. The group size is capped at 5, only 4 may advance to the next platform.Spells & AbilitiesAll spell-casting is now automated. All you have to do is move your chess pieces and they'll automatically cast their spells when the cool down is available.Each chess piece archetype has their own special healing ability.EnemiesAll bosses now have one unique ability to themselves and share a pool of randomized abilities between each other.New boss: Grim Reaper. A ghostly character that teleports around and swings his large scythe.New enemy: Pikemen. A stronger pawn with double the attack range.Cannon now damages all units in front of it.ItemsInventory removed, you now instantly equip weapons and armor off the floor.+62 weapon items you can equip on your units (swords, maces, staffs, axes). Most weapons have a unique effect that increases damage if a condition is met - bonus damage every 3rd swing for example.+11 armor items have been added to the game. You can now equip units with an ...
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• Patch Notes·22 Aug 2025Official

  Petrified Pawns - What's Next - Update 2.0 Roguelite Rework

  Maps reworkA lot of maps will be scrapped and instead completely new maps that are large but segmented into smaller fights will be added. You fight one small chessboard at a time and when the board is cleared you get to choose a path. You can see all the enemies in the next encounters so you can make wise decisions. The map layout has a degree of randomness to it and the encounters and obstacles you face are random each play-through as well. Making the game more re-playable.New map structure: Act 1Boss FightAct 2 ,Boss FightAct 3 Final BossItemsAll items have been replaced. A new equipment slot has been added: Each unit can equip a weapon and a armor piece which can increase the strength further. The weapons are now more unique, have different stats and might alter your play-style.For Example:Twin Strike: Hits the target twice every swing (Making strength more valuable)Great Axe: Deals a lot of damage but has a 1 turn cooldown on its swing.Double Edged Sword: Deals damage back to you each swing.Expensive Sword: Has a negative effect which makes every time the unit moves cost gold.RelicsInstead of a talent tree menu there are now relic items that can be found in the world.The relics work as upgrades to some or all of your units giving them more strength, critical strike or health. Relics can also grant you a new player spell to cast. Merchants, a new unit, sells relics as well as weapons and potions.UnitsNew chess piece behaviour:Cannon can now rotate towards a target and when it fires it damages all targets in front of it.Pawns can equip a spear which doubles their attack range.Dragon eggs can now hatch after a few turns and turn into a Cobra unit.
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