Pawn of the Dead is a three-dimensional game, the gameplay of which is based on chess. But this is not ordinary chess, where a defeated piece is removed from the battlefield, in this game a killed chess piece takes the enemy's side. Leonardo, the white king, must take any action to prevent the collapse of his white kingdom, and in this he will be helped by his faithful and rejected queen Elona, the best warrior in the entire white kingdom and Leonardo's faithful soldier. The enslaver will be the black king, commanding his countless army of undead, who know no mercy and pity and will do everything to ensure that only black pieces remain on the chessboard. The game has a story mode, consisting of 64 different levels, and each of them is accompanied by an interesting cutscene.Pawn of the Dead offers the player:
- Random level generator, in which you can play as an army of undead, and for white knights.
- Artificial intelligence with easy, medium and hard difficulty.
- The ability to play with another player (classic chess mode is also supported).
- 4 chessboard designs, one of them in 2D space, which is designed for low-performance computers.
- A game mode with one white queen against all the undead pieces on the chessboard.