Summon
Spend mana to call Phoenixes and Rams onto the board — fresh threats conjured mid-battle.
Launching August 1 · Free to play
Fast-paced
Magical Chess
A familiar board. Unfamiliar magic.
A fast tactical duel of spells, summons, and a champion — your Ward — that changes every match. One game it’s a Beast that stomps everything beside it; the next, a Moon Mage sniping across the board. Both players draw the same spells, so every win is skill, not memorization.
Coming August 1 to Google Play
The battle
Summon · Cast · Conquer
A tight 5×7 board, one champion per side, and a spellbook that’s never the same twice. Easy to learn, deep to master.
Cast
Three spells a match, dealt at random: fireballs, freezes, shields, and storms.
Conquer
Every game hands you a different Ward — your champion — to protect and to win with.
Control the center
The glowing mana row fuels your spells. Hold it to out-resource your foe every turn.
Your champion
Meet the Wards
Every game you lead one golden Ward — a champion drawn fresh from the rotation. Escort it to the far row, or protect it to the death. Each one rewrites how the board plays.
Beast
Steps one tile up, down, or sideways — then stomps every tile around it when it lands. Corners are the only safe approach.
Sun Mage
Moves one tile any direction and hurls a cross-blast of fire two tiles away. Stand on a diagonal and you’re safe from it.
Moon Mage
Moves one tile, then fires a piercing beam in five directions — forward, the forward diagonals, and straight out to the sides.
The spellbook
A spell for every plan
Freeze, poison, blast, displace, summon — twelve spells in the pool, three dealt fresh each match.
Ice Bolt
25Freeze
Poison
30Poison
Push
35Displace
Fire Bolt
55Destroy
Summon Phoenix
80Summon
Fire Storm
90Area blast
Screens
A look at the board
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Why Wardlock
Built to respect your time
All the depth you loved about chess, none of the study tax.
01
No homework
No openings to memorize, no meta to grind. Every game is a fresh position you solve on the spot — skill you can feel, not a book you studied.
02
15-minute games
Thirty seconds a turn, hard cap. A whole tactical battle that fits in a coffee break.
03
No draws, ever
Win by marching your Ward to the far row or destroying theirs. Games end decisively — no stalemate grinds.
However you want to play
Five ways to battle
Solo, across the table from a friend, or against the world — same rules, your call.
Campaign
Escape Mount Wardlock — seven chapters and their bosses (part one of three).
Solo vs the AI
Sharpen your game against the computer, at your own pace.
Online — friend battle
Challenge a friend directly and settle who’s better.
Local 2-player
Pass one phone back and forth — the board spins 180° to face whoever’s up.
Online — random match Beta
Get matched against a real player somewhere in the world.
The world of Wardlock
Escape Mount Wardlock
The world rests on four Wards — the ones who can touch the fire at its core without burning. There was a fifth. They sealed him beneath the mountain, behind a door with five locks. Now the call has come early, from the North.
Seven chapters stand between you and the gate
Sprout
A gift Liora grew — now it wants you gone.
Ogre
Eight feet of guard, wedged in the only way through.
Nikolai
The grieving Ward of the North. He’s expecting you.
Launching August 1
Be there when the fire wakes.
Free to play on Android. iOS to follow.
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