- Looting gold and crystals - Patch 2.0.4 - 8 February 2026
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 l…
- Patch 2.0.3 - Clarity - 21 January 2026
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 w…
- Tougher Boss Fights - 10 January 2026
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.
- 2.0 Update - Major Overhaul Patch - 6 January 2026
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…
- Petrified Pawns - What's Next - Update 2.0 Roguelite Rework - 22 August 2025
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…
- Minor Patch 1.0.7 - 28 April 2025
Infinity Mode: Increased camera movement range. Adds can now spawn with bosses. More the further you get. Multiple bosses can now spawn at the same time. Wave 50+. Standard Mode: Removed the Gauntlet level. Added more treasure chests on a few levels.
- Patch notes for update version 1.0.6 - 16 March 2025
Boss difficulty increase Dire bear boss is now larger and takes up 4 tiles like other bosses and has gotten more health. Dragon's breath deals more damage and set its targets on fire. The dragons melee attacks is more limited, only in front. Fixed broken units Cannon can now fire again. Witch's totems can now fire again. Fixed broken talents Shield Wall no longer stack, which was never intended. Improved framerate The highest quality setting is no longer rendering a unnecessarily large resolution.
- Patch 1.0.5 - Turn duration, tooltips & teleports - 11 March 2025
Tooltips Holding down the control button will show all units equipment tool-tips above their heads when the equipment menus are open. Useful when you don't know if the item your dragging is better than the one that's already equipped. The equipment icons above the chess pieces heads now show the rarity color of the item. Mass Teleporters Added teleporters to a couple of maps to make it less tedious to move up all your units. Elixirs Increased the drop rate of speed potions. Removed healing crit potion from the loot table, it wasn't impactful. Item Stats All legendary items now gives +1 to movement range. Turn Delay Fix Sped up the time it takes before u can move again. Larger maps used to slow down the turns, the limitation has now been removed.
- Patch 1.0.4 Small adjustments - 8 March 2025
New language added: German Game is playable in English, Portuguese, Swedish and now also German! Balance Changes You can no longer buy the same talent multiple times (except the bottom row with chess pieces, potions and weapons). The issue was being able to stack multiple Axe Specialization talents, each giving 10% damage increase would do way to much damage. The knight chess piece now deal more damage because it's more finicky to target opponents with. Bishop and rook now deal less damage. Reduced the move range of warlocks and archers Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where the knight would end the players turn twice. Fixed a bug that would increase the turns duration before you could move again. Fixed platforms in infinity mode sometimes not spawning after clearing a wave. Fixed platforms getting stuck up in the air in infinity mode. Other The valid tile a player can move to now refreshes mor…
- Save System Patch - 5 March 2025
Patched the saving system - You can now resume a saved game Fixed an issue where you would lose your inventory, talents and equipment when relaunching the game. You can now resume play on the level you reached last played. But you will start at the beginning of the level with the units, items and spells you had when you got there. Saving only happens when you load a new level. If you played prior to this patch your save file is no longer valid I'm afraid and you'll have to start at the beginning. Fixed the options menu not always saving the settings. Nerfed the speed boosts. You can now only gain +1 movement range per item. +1 from barrels, +1 from speed potions, 1+ from equipped weapon. Infinity mode will no longer start with items you had in standard mode.
- 1.0 Releases with a new way to play - Infinite Mode - 4 March 2025
Petrified Pawns contains 18 standard maps with differing win conditions. Some levels you have to slay a boss, others you just need to reach the end. In the new play mode Infinity there is no end, no win condition. You simply try to reach as far as you can until you die. More and more enemies will spawn and every few waves a random boss emerges. Compete on the leader-boards for the high-score!
- Developer Update - Leaning in to the Strategy Aspect - 1 March 2025
Seeing players try the demo during next fest has giving a lot of valuable feedback so I've made a couple of adjustments to the game. The order of Turn-Based Movement and Attacks More Strategic Players expected the chess pieces to behave a certain way and to be able to avoid taking damage so... The turn sequence has changed so your now able to step away from tiles where you would have taken damage. Works like this: Player makes a move Player units attack Enemy units attack (this moved up) Enemy units move (this moved down) Bosses move Traps trigger So now the enemy won't move and instantly attack you, you can plan ahead and completely avoid taking damage. Chess Pieces The Knight Attack Pattern During the demo the knight could jump in an L-shaped pattern but would attack any units close to it. This made it impossible to play around since you'd always take damage. Now the knight will attac…
- Demo is now participating in Next Fest - 24 February 2025
Demo Content Play the five first levels where the difficulty ramps up quickly and you only have the bare bones weapons, talents and inventory. You will have to play strategically here because you're not yet able to make a powerful build. Units Add a new chess piece to your group at the start of each new level. Keep your units alive, if they die they won't re-spawn in the next level. If you make a mistake you can restart the level. Your King the the most important piece - if the King dies it's game over. Treasures Find treasures chests scattered across the world. Loot weapons that you can distribute to your characters to make them stronger. Gather gold coins to spend on talents that upgrade your units or that give you new spells to cast. How to gain Mana Your units will need healing to stay alive and healing spells costs mana. You can gain mana by destroying vases, barrels and boxes. Doi…
- Major Demo Update - 3 Weeks to Release - 9 February 2025
New playable units The Crossbow: A ranged unit who shoots arrows from distance. The Warlock: A caster who fires off fireballs from distance. New maps The demo now consists of the first 5 levels of the full game. It starts with a tutorial and then ramps up in difficulty The Beginning, a tutorial level to learn the most basic mechanic. Selecting, moving, gaining mana, healing and equipping items. The Old Town. A level with many basic enemies but not necessarily a cake walk. The Quarry. Introducing more ranged enemies. Defeat the king at the top of the quarry. The Gauntlet. You need to make your way through a large number of ranged enemies. Some standing on platforms you cant get to unless you have a character that can jump over the ledges. Reach the elevator with your king and any other units you want. When the elevator leaves any units left behind will die. The Trap. You find yourself st…
- New demo update with different maps to play! - 10 December 2024
Updated the movement to be faster and more responsive. Attacks are also faster and more consistent and your now able to instantly deal a killing blow to a low health opponent that has less health than your unit has strength. You can do so by moving your unit to a tile with a yellow highlight. There are 5 new levels in this demo each with a boss at the end. New intractable objects are placed in the world: Crate, Barrel, Vase and Treasure Chests. Each type give different buffs or rewards. Replaced some of the healing spells for more interactive and fun versions. They cost mana so you cant use them too much but you can regain mana by breaking barrels and vases f.ex. Added a save system. When you advance to the next map the game automatically gets saved. Added a key bind menu where u can rebind abilities to new keys.
