Games Like Chess

A unique chess trip with exciting instant duels awaits you - test your mettle on the chessboard. Checkmate your opponent with only a few moves and solve challenging chess puzzles in amazing 3D worlds.

Why similar: Chess 33.2% ★, Board Game 30.2%, Logic 11.6%, Casual 9.1%, PvP 8.5%

Whether you're new to chess or a seasoned master, welcome to Chess Infinity—the art of timeless strategy. Immerse yourself in serene environments, sharpen your skills with an adaptive AI mentor, and connect with players worldwide. Embrace endless challenges that transcend eras and borders.

Why similar: Chess 33.6% ★, Board Game 31%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, PvP 9.8%, Casual 5.5%

Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their goals and themes. Solve challenges, unlock collectibles, and compete against each other on the leaderboards. Welcome to Chessarama!

Why similar: Board Game 30.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.8%, Chess 22.8% ★, Casual 13.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.

Why similar: Chess 41.8% ★, Board Game 27.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Casual 8.3%, Strategy 6.1%

The ChessThemed Chess offers a relaxing, minimalist chess experience with multiple boards, piece sets, AI opponents, and multiplayer. Play in 3D or 2D, learn the game’s history, and explore RPG-themed DLC. Free to Play – Download now and enjoy endless strategy!

Why similar: Chess 33.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.4%, Board Game 18%, PvP 12.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.

Why similar: Chess 28.7% ★, Board Game 26.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 17%, Logic 9.2%, PvP 8.4%

There are NO TURNS in this wild version of Chess! Pieces move across the board in real-time, so you'll need to think fast to protect your King!

Why similar: Chess 41.6% ★, Board Game 34.4%, Local Multiplayer 9.2%, PvP 8%, Strategy 6.8%

Chess just got an upgrade! Chess Ultimate, where precision strategy meets colorful chaos. Build your team from a roster of unique, quirky characters to defend your King while plotting your opponent’s downfall. Easy to pick up, endlessly fun to master, and a fresh take on the classic game of wits.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 39.7%, Chess 32.6% ★, Strategy 17.3%, PvP 9.3%, Singleplayer 1%

"The real chess was the friends we made along the way." - Randy Mc'Chess

Why similar: Chess 42% ★, Board Game 29.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.7%, Strategy 3.6%, 2D 2%

Nowadays everyone is a self-proclaimed chess player! Quite different from the soviet kids back in the old days. Maybe you are not so lazy and really want to improve your chess knowledge. Surprise me!

Why similar: Chess 36.4% ★, Board Game 34.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.1%, Casual 5.8%, Strategy 4.7%

Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.

Why similar: Chess 42.2% ★, Board Game 34.3%, Logic 7.5%, Casual 6%, Strategy 5.1%

Introducing Chess Ultra; the most breathtaking chess game ever made. Experience stunning 4K visuals, seamless online multiplayer, Grandmaster approved AI and full VR compatibility.

Why similar: Chess 37.5% ★, Board Game 33.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 6.8%, Casual 6.7%

Turn-based play is central to Chinese Chess. HyperChineseChess removes this rule—battle AI or players in real-time, using quick thinking to win. Experience classic chess reimagined!

Why similar: Board Game 48.9%, Casual 20.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Logic 11.1%, PvP 5.9%

Chess Sphere is multiplayer online across multiple platforms.

Why similar: Chess 33.7% ★, Board Game 30.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Casual 7.7%, PvP 6.7%

Create, collect and play board games from around the world, you can customise board sizes, piece moves and their unique look. There's 20+ classic board games and countless future games of yours!

Why similar: Board Game 45.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.2%, Casual 20.5%, Strategy 12%, Singleplayer 1%

This is a refreshing Chinese chess game with realistic graphics and a detailed audio tutorial that will keep you entertained, even as a novice. A variety of well-designed challenges will test your tactics. Sit back and relax, as you transform into a master of strategy.

Why similar: Board Game 52.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 27.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is a twist on chess with fog of war, a story-driven campaign, and plenty of challenges, traps, and puzzles. Fight your way through the campaign against legendary Kings and Queens of the past, who don't like to play by the rules!

Why similar: Chess 33.2% ★, Board Game 30.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.2%, Casual 6.8%, Strategy 5%

Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!

Why similar: Chess 34.2% ★, Board Game 31.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Logic 12.6%, Strategy 4.9%

An exciting and fast-paced chess roguelite, full of ridiculous abilities! Explode your opponent's pieces, spawn queens all over the board, move twice in a row... But watch out for the bosses, who have crazy powers of their own!

Why similar: Chess 41.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 22.4%, Board Game 19.6%, Logic 7.3%, Strategy 5.1%

Free Chess is a free physics based chess simulator where you are free to play the game of chess with the freedom of however you like.

Why similar: Chess 46.3% ★, Board Game 33.7%, Casual 10.3%, PvP 6.6%, Strategy 3.2%

Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.

Why similar: Chess 41.7% ★, Board Game 21.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Casual 8.7%, Logic 7.6%

Regimental Chess is a battle game where large armies of chess pieces move and capture in mass formations. Up to 372 pieces in a single battle.

Why similar: Chess 39.7% ★, Board Game 34.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.4%, Strategy 6.5%

This game develops the ability to predict movement in Chess, using a playful and immersive concept. The dark troops march in a single sound. They are more organized and smarter

Why similar: Chess 35.5% ★, Board Game 31.9%, Logic 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Strategy 5.1%

Chess'Extra is a new free chess game with a 10x10 board and 2 new pieces: Priest and Assassin. Additional game modes "Traps", "Reinforcements", "Fog of war" and "Random positions" are available. Basic Chess available.

Why similar: Board Game 62.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Strategy 11.1%, 2D 8%, Local Multiplayer 4.3%

Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide. Become World Champion in the first and only chess career simulator!

Why similar: Board Game 34.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 25.3%, Chess 19.9% ★, Logic 9.7%, Strategy 5%

「ゲームはもっと、シンプルでいい。」 この理念のもと、物理演算と将棋を掛け合わせた超将棋は制作されました。 あなたが友人や世界の強敵たちと切磋琢磨しながら、この懐かしい、それでいて 未知のボードゲームを楽しんで頂ければそれ以上の喜びはありません。

Why similar: Board Game 49.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 27.2%, Casual 12.9%, PvP 8.7%, Strategy 1%

Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent's pieces until you've beaten their king and won the game.

Why similar: Board Game 37.8%, Chess 29.6% ★, PvP 14.4%, Local Multiplayer 6.8%, Casual 5.8%

A medieval world of strategy and tactics await you to engage in epic battles of wits as you master the moves and the strategies in a conquest to claim the kingdom of Chess.

Why similar: Casual 61%, Strategy 39%

Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Why similar: Chess 60.2% ★, Logic 17.7%, Casual 11%, Strategy 7.1%, 2D 3%

It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board.

Why similar: Board Game 48%, Chess 36.3% ★, Strategy 8.1%, Casual 7.7%

chess simulator game

Why similar: Chess 53.2% ★, Board Game 34.9%, Casual 9.8%, Singleplayer 2.1%

The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.

Why similar: Board Game 34.5%, Chess 32% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 24%, Strategy 4.5%, 2D 3.8%

Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess AI sandbox. Create your own chess boards, rules, and pieces. Play against the computer or your friends online, or win loot by playing one of 80 built-in chess boards in adventure mode.

Why similar: Chess 34.3% ★, Board Game 31.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Logic 12%, Strategy 4.8%

Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!

Why similar: Board Game 31.3%, Chess 30.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.6%, Casual 10%, Strategy 7.6%

Zen Chess: Mate in Three is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-three problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Why similar: Chess 69.3% ★, Logic 11.1%, Casual 10.9%, Strategy 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Chess meets Fighting games. Crush your opponents in the arena and on the chessboard in this online multiplayer competitive tactical fighting game that mixes the strategic elegance of Chess with the fast-paced execution of fighting games.

Why similar: Chess 30.8% ★, Board Game 24.3%, Local Multiplayer 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, PvP 11.8%

Classic Tic Tac Toe / Noughts & Crosses game with a minimalist style.

Why similar: Board Game 39.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.5%, PvP 11%, Casual 10.3%, Local Multiplayer 10.1%

Zen Chess: Mate in Four is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-four problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Why similar: Chess 70% ★, Logic 10.9%, Casual 10.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%

The first intellectually non-discriminatory chess variant. Instead of thinking, just move your pieces in one of the many absurd ways!

Why similar: Board Game 53.6%, PvP 17.5%, Logic 13.1%, Casual 9.9%, Strategy 5.9%

Othello Let's Go is a beautifully designed strategy board game for all ages. A total of 8 levels of computer AI difficulty, suits for both beginners and experts! More than 100 carefully selected Endgame and Lights Out levels are waiting for you to solve!

Why similar: Board Game 36.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.9%, PvP 11%, Local Multiplayer 10.1%, Casual 9.6%

Completely change the strategy of the age old game of chess with quantum physics!

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Zen Chess: Mate in Two is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-two problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Why similar: Chess 68% ★, Logic 12.1%, Casual 11%, Strategy 7.9%, Singleplayer 1%

Chess variation with unique twist: Black turns White into undead like themselves

Why similar: Chess 40.2% ★, Board Game 24.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Local Multiplayer 12.9%, Strategy 5.6%

Feud is a turn-based strategy game. Swap pieces on a four-by-four grid to isolate your opponent's pieces, or go straight for their King. Hone your skills against three AI characters with distinct play-styles, then challenge your friends online or on the same screen.

Why similar: Board Game 31.5%, Chess 21.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.3%, Local Multiplayer 11.1%, Logic 8.6%

At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.

Why similar: Chess 47.4% ★, Board Game 38.6%, Strategy 8.4%, 2D 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Original Auto Chess

Why similar: PvP 39.3%, Logic 31.2%, Strategy 29.5%

Four Kings One War is a 1 or 2 player strategy game inspired by chess. Each player controls two armies as though they were one and get's two moves per turn. This opens up guerrilla style tactics and hidden attacks. This is strategy for the modern mind, outside the 64th square.

Why similar: Chess 38.7% ★, Board Game 38%, Strategy 18.5%, Casual 4%, Singleplayer 0.9%

​Welcome to the chess school! Connect with the brilliant girls of Sakuragi town and engage them in chess matches. How will you master the moves that come your way?​

Why similar: Chess 61.6% ★, Casual 22.8%, 2D 13.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%

It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!

Why similar: Chess 52.4% ★, Board Game 29.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, PvP 4.4%, Strategy 2.9%

Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...

Why similar: Board Game 32%, Chess 30.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Local Multiplayer 10.5%, Casual 7%

Face off against the bridge troll in his bizarre game of chess! Decrypt, Twist and Enforce the rules as your devious opponent attempts to break them in King of the Bridge!

Why similar: Chess 48.2% ★, Board Game 39.4%, Strategy 7.4%, 2D 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Gambit Shifter is a relaxing, minimalist cozy puzzle game for chess experts and beginners alike! Take control of a single piece, solve your way through 80+ hand-crafted levels and lose yourself in the zen atmosphere as you advance.

Why similar: Chess 54.2% ★, Logic 22.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Casual 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

KNIGHTS is a minimalist puzzle game based on a single chess piece, the titular knight. A simple enough to pick up and relaxing experience.

Why similar: Chess 51.9% ★, Logic 20%, Casual 11%, Strategy 8.3%, 2D 7.5%

Inspired by chess, but adding combat that YOU control, Archon was the original Battle Chess. You must try to outmaneuver your opponent using teams of fantasy creatures or monsters in this epic struggle of Light and Dark.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Experience a 4K graphics strategy game with tactical depth, breadth, and challenge like nothing you have played before: the perfect mix of Chess, tactical setups and quests inpired by classic RPGs

Why similar: Chess 46.8% ★, Board Game 23.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Singleplayer 1%

Lose yourself in the most immersive virtual rendition of the world’s most beloved classic: Chess! Whether you’re using advanced VR technology (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift etc.) or just playing on a standard computer, users of both interfaces from around the world can now challenge each other in real time.

Why similar: Casual 61%, Strategy 39%

✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...

Why similar: 2D 70.6%, Singleplayer 29.4%