Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Tag of Joy · 2022 · Point & Click, Adventure, Story Rich, Mystery, Puzzle
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 40078Metacritic
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About Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Legends of the past come back to life in this charming European mystery point-and-click adventure.
Crowns and Pawns, a modern-day detective point&click adventure, inspired by classics such as Broken Sword, The Curse of Monkey Island, Still Life, Syberia and others. The game highlights the less explored history of Europe to the world of adventurers. Experience the legendary stories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, bring to light the conspiracy of the villainous branch of the KGB, solve puzzles and follow hints to reveal the secrets of the King who was never crowned.
The story follows a girl from Chicago, Milda, who unexpectedly receives an inheritance from her grandfather – a house in Lithuania. She sets off to Europe, but upon arrival she is threatened by an unknown man, demanding that she gives up her inheritance. Determined and intrigued by the mystery, she explores the run-down house, discovering old documents and clues dating back to the 15th century. Before long, Milda gets dragged into a dangerous search for a long-lost mysterious relic with a curse...
- A blend of history and myths set in a modern world, featuring real life locations all around Europe.
- Crowns and Pawns is led by the art director of the highly acclaimed fan-adventure Broken Sword 2.5.
- Classic point-and-click puzzles that involve finding items hidden in beautiful environments, creatively combining the contents of your inventory, interesting dialogue choices, and more!
- Feel like a detective uncovering the conspiracy behind a cursed relic.
- Beautiful hand painted art that comes to life with a touch of modern graphics features.
- A world that reacts to your decisions.
- Change the looks of the main character to solve puzzles (or for fun!).
- Fully voiced dialogue.
- Music written by the award winning composer Daniel Pharos (A New Beginning, Memoria, Blackguards).
- A control scheme perfectly adapted for the best possible experience with both a mouse and a gamepad.
The mystery detective point&click adventure is brought to you by the award-winning indie game development studio Tag of Joy.
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What Steam players say
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If you play beware of what you pick to be as a profession, as if your not a photographer you don't get a camera, if your not a psychologist you don't get a book, or if your not a programmer you don't get a usb plug. I hate that you have to restart the game from the beginning to be all of them or one just to get what you need to progress in the game. This game really needs to be tweeked before you distribute it. Could and would be a nice game if these didn't happen. I like how the game starts and the nice cities you visit, but overall a bad game to publish without the tweeks being fixed.3 found this helpful
Very little to complain about from a game play standpoint if you are use to the point and click style games like this. A hint feature could have been nice as some answers are not obvious. Now to where I felt the game could improve, it was so close to being a really interesting story. I think the issue was not feeling connected to the lead. SPOILERS AHEAD: Throughout the game, we see small portions of her family dynamic (her struggling relationship with her mother and her father and grandfathers absence from a young age) so narratively you think it is a slam dunk for her to share how that has shaped her life and lack of identity (given we pick nearly everything about her from dialogue, style, even her job) and how her motivation to get the crown is to gain the family she has lost and hopefully bring her father back in her life. The major draw is we never see that. Her reunion with her grandfather who she thought she was DEAD was summarized by her in text as a lol XD omg so crazy story. They take the seriousness out of the situation which, in my opinion, waters down her character and our motivation. Making her big confrontation scene with the villain of the game so lack luster. It'…1 found this helpful
Cute point and click game. Quite easy and the story isn't very original. But it's nice to relax to a game like this.
Crowns hide ancient lies Family roots shape the path Truth claims its own throne
loved this game, its brilliant, liked the fact you could choose what to wear
Fun game, but ridiculously hard to figure out. Had to use walkthrough help for almost EVERY situation. Kind of a rip off of Broken Sword.
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