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Board Defenders is super-structuring the rules of the world’s most played game of all times - chess. A modern vision thrilling and fun fast action game, combining the pace of an arcade with the challenge of a logic puzzle - brain game, based on chess rules.

Reviews: Positive — 95% — of 19 reviews
Released: 2016-09-06
Developer: Ludus Studio
Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 3.5 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 95%

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