Discover Crown Gambit's new demo for Steam Next Fest!

Explore the first three chapters of Crown Gambit with a fully revamped demo for Steam Next Fest!

The kingdom of Meodred’s tenuous balance of power is being shaken to its core after the king’s assassination and mysterious forces seem to be pulling strings from the dark.

Experience the beginning of our three heroes’ journey, make the right choices to guide their path, find the assassin, and take the young Prince to safety in the capital!

Encounter your first boss battles and discover the Ancestral Grace mechanic: channel board-shattering strength through ancient relics to defeat your enemies. Beware not to lose your soul though…

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DEMO FEATURES

  • New end-of-battle rewards: After each battle, a permanent stat bonus, an immediate healing bonus and a narrative state gain are presented to the player. For each of these, the reward presented is chosen randomly from the pool defined in the first point.

  • New tutorial at the start of the game, with a gradual introduction to the mechanics.

  • New content additions: three new chapters to discover with several possible branchings + a boss battle

  • Reworked balancing for Ancestral Grace gameplay mechanics and combat systems

  • New choices and dialogues

ABOUT CROWN GAMBIT
Crown Gambit is a tactical narrative game that transports players to a chaotic capital where they will need to prevent the realm’s downfall.

In this mysterious dark-fantasy universe inspired by Celtic and Breton folklore and drawn by French artist Gobert, players will use the skills of three intrepid paladins to overcome political turmoil.

Aliza, the blood-bending swashbuckler, Hael, the mace-wielding cleric, and Rollo, the anchor-waving tanker will have to make dreadful choices during their journey as they pledge allegiance to one of the pretenders to the throne.

Crown Gambit mixes epic, board-shattering card battles and deck-building with strong narrative, storytelling and multiple endings.

Players will interact with a wide cast of fascinating characters and will have to make difficult decisions to reveal all their secrets.

GAME FEATURES

  • Influence Meodred’s fate: choose your allies and enemies efully to unveil the story's many twists and turnsincluding its manifold endings.

  • Play as a team of three fearless paladins entangled in this political chaos: Aliza, the blood-bending swashbuckler, Hael, the mace-wielding cleric, and Rollo, the anchor-waving tanker.

  • Face low-life bandits, mighty knights, and unearthly beasts in tactical turn-based card battles, and unlock devastating techniques to shape each paladin’s combat style.

  • Channel the dark powers of the Ancestral Grace to deliver powerful blows. Be careful: this magic’s influence might have more of a hold on you than you think.

  • Journey through a mysterious dark-fantasy universe inspired by Celtic and Breton folklore, full of eldritch mysteries.

  • Enjoy bold, expressionist hand-drawn illustrations by Gobert and a haunting medieval soundtrack with a modern twist

9. Juni 2025, von Thore Varga