- 5th Anniversary Sale - 19 February 2026
Today is the 5th anniversary of Pawn of the Dead's full release in Steam! It will be %50 off here till February 26, so a good time if you haven't bought the game already.And some personal sentiments as the developer...This project had been the most important part of my career. I can't say this is my favourite game I made, there are many aspects I'd make different if I made this game again. But it's important for me. Not only because we spent the most time in this game, but also because how personal the Leonard and the Black King's story is to me.Pawn of the Dead has been the most important game in my career, but we are changing this situation by making a more ambitious game. A game less personal, much more collaborative with other talents than me. Don't forget to wishlist and follow Clown House: Lunacy!
- Clown House: Lunacy has a Steam page! - 16 February 2026
We have an exciting announcement. We launched the Steam page of Clown House: Lunacy, which was formerly titled as Clown House 2! Unravel the mystery of an abandoned mansion and a commune of lunatic clowns. Clown House: Lunacy is a horror game with focus on the uncanniness and unpredictability of clowns. Observe the clowns, solve puzzles and survive. Never forget: Every clown you kill brings you closer to becoming one. This is an ambitious project that utilizes the core ideas from the original Clown House released in 2015, rather than a direct sequel. We are working on hours of content taking place in an extensive mansion, 6+ clowns with personalities and 4 different playable characters. Early-access in 2027, full release in 2028 is the plan. Don't forget to wishlist and follow! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858120/Clown_House_Lunacy
- Pawn of the Dead v1.2.2 - 27 October 2025
The latest update of Pawn of the Dead is about comfort. The camera perspectives and FOVs have been updated to make the game easier to play in 3D.And we removed a redundant element from the UI: The info box that used to say where you clicked and the name of the selected piece.The demo has been updated, too. It has the aforementioned visual improvements and fixes a Unity-related security vulnerability.
- Security update - 5 October 2025
The latest update addresses a serious Unity related security vulnerability. It was recently discovered that all Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android games made with Unity 2017 and later might have this security vulnerability. Unity released new editor versions that fixes it, but all affected games still need to be rebuilt with the recent editor. So Pawn of the Dead is re-built with recent Unity versions that fixes the vulnerability. Clown House 1 was updated yesterday, the rest of Aslan Game Studio games in Steam will be updated, too. Besides the security fix, some visual details are slightly improved. Smaller file and ranks on the chessboard is one of these improvements.
- Land of the Crescent 2024 Broadcast - 6 November 2024
Land of the Crescent: Games from Türkiye aims to celebrate the versatility and hard work of Türkiye’s video game development community over the last decades. Pawn of the Dead is a part of this event. Ahmet Kamil Keleş (lead developer of the game) will be playing it in a live Let's Play to celebrate this event. It will be broadcast in Steam and Aslan Game Studio's YouTube channel and Facebook page.
- Remote Play Together Fest livestream - 9 February 2024
Pawn of the Dead will be a part of Steam's Remote Play Together Fest, which will be held during Feb 12-19. Our Steam live stream is on Sunday, Feb 18 2024 GMT 16:30 (TSİ 19:30). We will be celebrating the anniversary of Pawn of the Dead's Steam release, as well.
- Patch (February 2024) - 7 February 2024
Pawn of the Dead has a better gamepad support now. Issues about DualSense has been solved. At right upper corner, correct gamepad glyphs are shown. Gamepad can rumble, too! Also, improvements on visuals, optimization are made and some minor bugs are fixed.
- Native Silicon support for macOS, Improvements for Linux - 16 February 2023
macOS Pawn of the Dead supports Silicon processors (M1, M2, etc.) natively now. It could already run on Macs with Silicon processors before, though, this update is about performance upgrade. Linux Pawn of the Dead's Linux port is built with IL2CPP backend, it was Mono before. And Vulkan works better (you can use -force-vulkan parameter to open the game with that). This update is about performance, as well. Windows build didn't need any change.
- Gamepad support and more optimization - 11 December 2021
This patch provides full gamepad support for Pawn of the Dead. Also, we optimized the game more.
- "Restart the level" suggestion when you lose an important piece - 5 July 2021
Now in Chapter 1, the game suggests you to restart the game if you lose an important piece.
- Pawn of the Dead is a fun Zombie twist on Chess in the style of Battle Chess - 21 June 2021
Love Chess but want something a little different? Pawn of the Dead seems like it could be exactly what you want. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/pawn-of-the-dead-is-a-fun-zombie-twist-on-chess-in-the-style-of-battle-chess
- Bug fix: We can do castling in Classical Chess mode - 4 June 2021
We fixed a bug that used to prevent White side players from castling in Classical Chess mode.
- Balancing Queen vs Zombies mode - 20 May 2021
Now Black Knights are created when your score reaches 100 in Queen vs Zombies mode
- Queen vs Zombies mode - 13 May 2021
Pawn of the Dead has a new game mode! In Queen vs Zombies, you control White Queen, Elona. Your purpose is to prevent the undead reach the other side of the board. You have a magical ability this time. For every 7 undead you kill with your sword, you gain power to instantly destroy enemies in vertical, horizontal and diagonal positions.
- Instant random levels - 21 April 2021
In this patch, the random level generator mode provides you a level instantly. We have pre-generated hundreds of levels for you. We will continue generating more levels in the future.
- New main menu music, being able to skip to the next level with "Show Solution" - 7 April 2021
Pawn of the Dead has a new main menu music, thanks to my dear friend, Çağlar Şahin. Also, when you choose "Show Solution" for a campaign level, you can skip to the next level without winning the current level by yourself.
- Optimization update - 25 March 2021
Now if you play Pawn of the Dead on Low or Very Low quality settings, some of the environment elements (like extra light sources) become invisible. So, you can play the game with a better performance at those settings.
- We have a Discord server - 16 March 2021
Hello everyone, We have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/fMZp8bf7H6 My aim is to create a friendly community centered (but not limited with) our games and other indie games. Gamers, indie developers, anyone working in the industry are welcome!
- Optimization update: Post processing options - 6 March 2021
We added some options that let you play the game with better optimization. You can turn on/off bloom and ambient occlusion now. Also, the game doesn't run in background anymore.
- You can skip the tutorial levels when you click New Game - 28 February 2021
As the title explains, we have added a new page to the main menu that allows you to skip the tutorial levels if you click New Game
