Pawnbarian

Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!

Pawnbarian is a rogue-like, turn-based combat and chess game developed by j4nw and published by .
Released on September 24th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 19 languages: English, Polish, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Danish, Hungarian, Korean, Russian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Serbian, Spanish - Latin America and Ukrainian.

It has received 806 reviews of which 720 were positive and 86 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Pawnbarian into these genres:

Rogue-like Turn-Based Combat Chess Card Game Puzzle Rogue-lite Board Game Strategy Card Battler Turn-Based Tactics Turn-Based Strategy Mouse only Minimalist Roguelike Deckbuilder Deckbuilding Controller Grid-Based Movement 2D Singleplayer Abstract

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
Processor: SSE2 support
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 200 MB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13
Processor: SSE2 support
Graphics: Metal capable (starting at late 2012 models)
Storage: 200 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 18.04
Processor: SSE2 support
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable
Storage: 200 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Игра заставляет подумать, редко когда меня игры так увлекают но эта смогла. За счёт отсутствия сюжета и лёгких для понимания механик (где еще и подсказки есть) можно продолжать хоть через месяц, хоть через год. Реиграбельность большая, за счёт разнообразия героев и прокачки между уровнями, хотя я бы хотел побольше уровней, всё таки цепи (ограничения) - это совсем не то, что новые противники. 12 зараженных капибар из 10

Sept. 2024

It's very fun. Short, simple and easy to understand. There's a lot of challenges you can grind out if that's your thing. Just a really solid game with very solid mechanics.

Sept. 2024

It's a good "thirty minutes at a time" type of game. There's a very solid general structure that's worth coming back to, but's it's not the type of game with a high degree of customization, leading to quick and fun runs. Then you ragequit after getting bodied

Sept. 2024

Most important thing that you should know about this game, the inherence, is that it produces permanent brain damage. Brutal.

July 2024

Game is great. Haven't gotten beyond the first set of dungeons so far. I often just play one instance and am not a chess wizard. Hope i see some ending , we will see. I'm trusting the process. Game could use some tweaking to play better on touchscreens maybe. This might be a blast on the steamdeck. i don't know but games like balatro and solitaire translate well to touchscreen.; for this game i'm sticking to mouse.

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8.19€

8.4

720

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Developer

j4nw

Release 24 Sep 2021

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