Veilcrown: 3D Fantasy Chess

Veilcrown is a 3D chess game for iPhone and iPad where every capture plays out as a short fight scene between two pieces. Each piece type fights in its own way. The rules are standard chess, so a scene changes how a capture looks and never who wins.

You can slow the scenes down, speed them up or switch them off in one tap.

THE GAME
Two armies, Light and Shadow, with character pieces instead of plain figurines. Five arenas to play in: Village Square at Dawn, Castle Courtyard at Golden Hour, Ruined Forest at Dusk, Throne Hall at Night and the Shadow Realm. Switch between the 3D board and a flat 2D view at any point in a game. Veilcrown plays in landscape.

PLAY
Play against the bot or hand the device to a friend for a two-player game. The bot has eight levels, labelled from about 400 to about 2200 Elo. Those labels are rough guides, not measured ratings. The engine is our own, written for this game. Your own Elo against the bots is tracked on your profile.
Use undo and hints, offer a draw, and go back through your last game move by move in the review screen.

ONLINE
Play rated games against other players on a 10+5 clock (10 minutes each, plus 5 seconds per move). Matchmaking looks for an opponent close to your rating. Each month is a league season, and you join the table after 10 rated games. When the season ends, everyone with 10 games gets gold and a season badge; the top 100, top 10, top 3 and the champion get more. To play a friend, share an invite code. Friend games are unrated and have no clock.
Online play is optional and asks for no email or password. You choose a display name, and there is no chat. From the end screen or the league table you can report or block a player.

LEARN
A seven-chapter tutorial runs on the real board. An in-game guide covers the rules and every piece. Short rule tips appear the first time something comes up, and you can turn them off. The daily puzzle comes from the Lichess puzzle database, and you can practise more puzzles near your level.

PROGRESS
Earn XP and climb 50 levels on the level road. Beat each bot level to collect up to three crowns on the bot ladder. Daily streak, weekly goals and 12 badges give you reasons to come back, and none of them ask for money.

STORE
The store is cosmetic only: army skins, kill packs with new capture scenes, piece skins, boards, tables, theme sets, gold packs and a starter pack. Gold also comes from playing. Nothing you buy changes the rules, the bot's strength or the result of a game.

NO ADS, NO WAITING
No ads, no energy bars, no waiting timers and no account to create. Everything except online play works offline. If you are signed in to iCloud, your progress syncs between your devices through iCloud key-value storage. Purchases can be restored from Settings and from the store.

Veilcrown is available in English and Turkish.

Questions or bugs: https://aryuksektepe.github.io/veilcrown/