60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Chess, Turn-Based Tactics, Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy.
Outsmart the world's strongest chess engine, Stockfish. See its plan, then turn that plan against it, using abilities from a procedural skill tree in this turn-based strategy roguelike.
The Rookery
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!
Passant: A Chess Roguelike
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.
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 49.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Roguelite 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%, Roguelike 5.9%
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 53.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Roguelike 8.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Roguelite 6.4%
Tactorius is a spell-driven chess roguelite. Summon pieces, rewrite movement, and warp the rules with 150+ spells across 7 escalating towers. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Chess 55.3% ★, Roguelite 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%
Restore peace - one piece at a time. Start a rebellion with a handful of loyalists in this chess roguelike, and grow your army as you free a war-torn kingdom. Gain banners that bend the rules and build devastating synergies as you race to topple a tyrant before his army returns!
Why similar: Chess 48.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Roguelike 9.9%, Roguelite 6.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.8%
This is Chess on a conveyor belt -- an ingenious roguelike, melding tactical strategy and explosive action! Deal with a mind-bending scrolling board that pulls towards you relentless waves of foes and perils. Prepare for their violent collision with your pieces. Prepare for TOTAL ZUGZWANG.
Why similar: Chess 41.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Roguelike 9.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Roguelite 7.8%
A turn-based tactical game in the style of chess, with roguelike elements, where you command a fleet in dynamic strategic battles to break humanity's cycle of defeat.
Why similar: Chess 51.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Roguelite 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%, Roguelike 6.8%
MetaChess is chess that lets you build your own army and rewrite the board. With alternate roles for every piece, it creates billions of new possible games possibilities. No more memorized openings, no more solved meta. Every decision matters. Outdraft, outthink, and outplay your opponent.
Why similar: Chess 57.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Board Game 5.9%, Choices Matter 5.2%
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: Chess 46.1% ★, Roguelite 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Roguelike 8.3%
A colorful chess roguelike! Engage in dopaminergic, cinematic strategy while you fulfill a chess power fantasy - your pieces gain abilities as you construct a juiced up roster capable of surviving the onslaught! Only - seven mysterious prismatic kings stand before you and the one true crown...
Why similar: Chess 60.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Roguelite 8.7%, Roguelike 6.9%, Strategy 5.7%
Chess of doom is a chess-based roguelike where you're outnumbered at every turn. Harness the dungeon's power to battle enemy hordes, familiar and strange. Die, learn, master, conquer!
Why similar: Chess 60.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Roguelike 9.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.6%
A roguelike chess game where players see how far one set of pieces will take them. A short, run based game that respects the classic, but with a few fun twists. Compete against friends and the world on the leaderboards, how far will you go?
Why similar: Chess 63.3% ★, Roguelike 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Board Game 5.7%
The World has united their strongest Grandmasters to challenge us! But they forget one thing: the Soviet School of Chess has no equal. Take your seat, comrade. It is time to show the globe who truly rules the 64 squares!
Why similar: Chess 66% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Board Game 3.6%
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Why similar: Chess 51.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Roguelike 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Roguelite 6.9%
Play Classic chess expanded with 9 unique classes, Mana, spells, traps and passive abilities. Outsmart your opponent, create unexpected positions, compete online across PC and mobile.
Why similar: Chess 56.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%, Strategy 7%, Class-Based 4.2%
Chess is the deck. Draft an army, march it through escalating sieges, and stack stratagems until one rook move scores like an avalanche. A score-chasing roguelike where every capture feeds the combo - and checkmate is the jackpot.
Why similar: Chess 52.8% ★, Roguelite 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Roguelike 6.8%, Strategy 6.5%
Experience the beloved game of chess in ways never before seen! Starting with just your King and a Pawn, you’ll strategically assemble your board with pieces of your choice. But be warned, you’ll be facing off against boards uniquely crafted by other players, there’s no telling what to expect!
Why similar: Chess 61.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Roguelike 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Strategy 6.1%
ChessCorp - an indie puzzle game that takes you to a pixel art world to solve the mystery of your existence. Tackle AI-generated chess puzzles, develop your own thinking machine, and win the Grand Tournament. This is the only way.
Why similar: Chess 61.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.1%, Tactical 5.2%
Helios Chess is a chess roguelike where you have to upgrade your pieces, buy augments and play chess like you never have before. If your new to chess this can also help enhance your skills and knowledge.
Why similar: Chess 54.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Roguelike 8.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Roguelite 7%
A chess-inspired tactical roguelike where every battle becomes a puzzle of sacrifice and manipulation. Evolve chess pieces, build powerful armies, and turn clever sacrifices into devastating synergies.
Why similar: Chess 47% ★, Roguelike 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%, Roguelite 7.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%
A unique and casual chess experience with new rules and luck-based mechanics which requires fresh strategies, tactics, and ingenuity to conquer.
Why similar: Chess 55% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Strategy 8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.1%, Board Game 5.8%
Strategize your way through a variety of encounters, each with various twists. Kill all of the other pieces on the board through night and day until only the two kings remain.
Why similar: Chess 60.2% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.3%, Puzzle 4.6%
Olympiad Chess evolves classical chess into a unified 4v4 team sport. Across shared middle ranks, pieces migrate between boards to flank opponents and save teammates. A true multi-board competitive variant built to completely revolutionize FIDE team chess format!
Why similar: Chess 64.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.6%, Board Game 6.2%, Strategy 5.4%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 62.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%, Strategy 8.3%, Board Game 5.6%
MEGACHESS is a roguelite dungeon crawler with chess elements. Blast through high-paced tactical battles, adapt your army against outnumbering foes, craft and combine your units to form MEGA-PIECES and obliterate the bosses.
Why similar: Chess 32.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Roguelike 11.2%
Customize your board with a host of new pieces. Start with an aggressive forward assault, Or perhaps a defensive fortress designed to weather the storm. Will you outwit, outmanoeuvre, or out-explode your way to victory?
Why similar: Chess 56.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Strategy 6.6%, Board Game 4.7%
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
Why similar: Chess 53.8% ★, Roguelite 10.2%, Roguelike 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%, Strategy 6.4%
Shatranj Puzzles is a tactical chess puzzle game featuring 10,000 unique puzzles, 3 AI difficulty levels, and local 2-player mode. Solve challenging positions, improve your tactical vision, and progress through a massive chess puzzle experience at your own pace.
Why similar: Chess 80.5% ★, Strategy 11%, Puzzle 5.6%, 2D 2.1%, Indie 0.8%
A chess-based roguelike tactics game where you empower pieces with cards, build tag synergies, and shape each run through strategic choices.
Why similar: Chess 62.8% ★, Roguelite 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Board Game 6.4%, Strategy 5.1%
Challenge 20 chess masters from around the world to duels across the board. Defeat them one by one, prove your skills, and fight your way to the top to become the ultimate CHECKBORNE Champion.
Why similar: Chess 66.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Board Game 6.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.7%
The Han dynasty is fading, and warlords rise. The realm has shattered like a broken chessboard, with no end in sight. The land is your board, its soilder your pieces. Enter the chaos of the Three Kingdoms, command armies, outwit rivals, seize cities, and fight for dominion!
Why similar: Chess 33.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Roguelike 11.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Roguelite 10.5%
Save the forest in this improved version of chess with new boards with obstacles and power-ups.
Why similar: Chess 62.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%, Strategy 6%, Tactical 4.1%
A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces gain unique abilities. Earn upgrades, unlock branching skill trees, and build your warband across runs as you fight through 20 boss encounters, each one playing by their own rules.
Why similar: Chess 53.3% ★, Roguelite 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%, Board Game 4.3%
Collect cards, build decks, and battle fierce opponents in Top Check, a roguelike deckbuilder and card game inspired by the classic game of chess. With many unique pieces and abilities, only the best strategists will emerge victorious. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
Why similar: Chess 49.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Roguelite 7.8%, Roguelike 7%, Choices Matter 5.4%
Do you like the Endgame in chess? Here's a brand new chess variant! Defend the back rank against the onslaught of enemy pawns. Easy to learn , advanced artificial intelligence , 66 hand-crafted stages.
Why similar: Chess 62.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Tactical 4.5%
Face the demon queen Lilith in high-stakes, asymmetrical chess matches. Capture all of her pieces, EXCEPT ONE! Carefully sacrifice your own pieces, use special items, and outthink Lilith’s unpredictable moves to gain the upper hand.
Why similar: Chess 67.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Strategy 6.5%, Board Game 5.4%
Enter the mafia underworld of 2D Chess, where animals take on the roles of mob bosses. Play 10+0 minute games online on the Lichess server. Analyze your moves with Stockfish. Checkmate with style in this captivating cartel-themed chess adventure!
Why similar: Chess 69% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%, Board Game 6.2%, Logic 3.9%
Crounds is a fast-paced PvP chess roguelike. Choose a powerful King, draft game-breaking upgrades, and bend the traditional rules of chess to destroy your opponent! Synergize your chaotic upgrades to create your winning strategy!
Why similar: Chess 54.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Roguelike 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7%, Roguelite 6.4%
A chess game where you lead a customizable fantasy army through 1,500 levels of curated puzzles. Face checkpoint commanders in full matches, recruit new races, and customize your hero and army. Key chess concepts encountered are logged in a Sage Ledger for education and future reference.
Why similar: Chess 66.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 7.6%, Board Game 5.8%, Strategy 5.1%, Puzzle 5%
Build an impossible army: knights that become unicorns, queens that cross the edges, phoenixes that rise again. Lead it through a roguelite Story of bosses, merchants and perks that bend the rules, then put it to the test online.
Why similar: Chess 48.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Roguelike 9.5%, Roguelite 9.2%
Build a chess army. Break the rules. Get thrown around by a tornado, spiked by a trap, swallowed by quicksand or captured by an enemy hiding in tall grass. Make your knights move infinitely or turn your bishops into necromancers. No king to checkmate. Just enemies to destroy.
Why similar: Chess 48.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Roguelite 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Roguelike 8.5%
Solve more than 3.000.000 chess puzzles and fight an AI which is challenging for beginners and pros. Unlock different startign positions to give your chess game a new twist. All that in the style of famous 90s JRPGs.
Why similar: Chess 48.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Logic 5.6%, Board Game 5.2%
Play in the dark or under open skies. Sharp Chess is a clean, distraction-free chess experience — Stockfish AI, nature and dark themes. At home or on the go with Steam Deck.
Why similar: Chess 73.3% ★, Strategy 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Board Game 7.5%
Do you think chess is a man's game, comrade? THINK AGAIN! The Soviet Queens are here to crush your ego and show you true elegance on the board. Enroll NOW!
Why similar: Chess 63.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%, Board Game 5.6%
It’s not chess...it’s better! COMBINE pieces as you play. New moves. New strategies. Create powerful hybrid pieces like the "Knook" by moving the Knight + Rook onto the same square. Then move as either piece. Face off with friends. Battle the AI. Beat the Grandmaster in the Deckbuilding Roguelike.
Why similar: Chess 51.6% ★, Roguelite 10.5%, Roguelike 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.2%
Chess, but with spells, items and dungeons that fight back. Play online matches on boards full of vision crystals, teleports and fog, where every piece has abilities the original never had.
Why similar: Chess 56.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Roguelike 5.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.9%, Strategy 4.8%
Crawl through the infernal checkerboards. Plan your moves, survive demonic hordes, collect unholy weapons, and descend ever deeper to reclaim your soul — but beware: in this damned game, the rules of chess have been... corrupted. Can you reach the PAWNDEMONIUM ?
Why similar: Chess 62.4% ★, Roguelike 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 4%
Try Boardfall for free! Progressively harder waves of enemies fall from the sky. Capture them to earn gold, and then purchase your own reinforcements to drop onto the board.
Why similar: Chess 48.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Roguelite 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Roguelike 8.7%
How would you play chess if the board was a magical fantasy world? Command living chess pieces across four strange realms, use the terrain as a weapon, and gather allies with incredible powers. A single-player tactics game where you win by building your best synergistic army.
Why similar: Chess 60.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Roguelite 7.3%
A chess arcade game where you play against the strongest chess engine in the world.
Why similar: Chess 86.8% ★, Strategy 8.1%, Tactical 3.4%, 2D 1.6%
Gambonanza is a tactical roguelike that sets chess pieces on a tiny board. Forget traditional chess and embrace the chaos of breaking the balance! Spend your money on rule-bending upgrades, board tiles and pieces. Experiment with illegal combinations and face off against iconic bosses!
Why similar: Chess 45.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Roguelite 8.9%, Roguelike 8.4%, Choices Matter 7.7%
The ultimate chess variant roguelike game. Start with pieces and the board set up for the ancient precursor to chess, Chaturanga. Defeat progressively more sophisticated computer opponents and chess variants while leveling up your pieces to their modern equivalents and beyond into new faery pieces.
Why similar: Chess 49.4% ★, Roguelite 9.9%, Roguelike 9.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.4%, Strategy 5.9%
Chess v Checkers is a mashup of two popular games Chess and Checkers. Play as either side on the game board through three distinct game modes.
Why similar: Chess 67.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 8.1%, Logic 6.3%, Board Game 5.1%, Puzzle 4.9%
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Why similar: Chess 52% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Roguelike 10.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%, Strategy 6.4%
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 76.6% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Board Game 7.6%, Tactical 4.2%, 2D 1.9%
City of Promotion est un jeu qui combine les échecs et la construction de colonies, où les joueurs utilisent les règles de déplacement des pièces d'échecs pour collecter des ressources, développer des colonies et résister aux attaques de monstres en essaim.
Why similar: Chess 61.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Roguelite 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.6%, Strategy 6.5%
Chex is a strategic board game currently based on Gliński's hexagonal variant of chess. Players must use their pieces to capture their opponent's king. The hexagonal board introduces new challenges and opportunities.
Why similar: Chess 72.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Board Game 7.5%, Strategy 5.2%, Fantasy 1%
Study piece movements, checkmate conditions and tactics; learn Janggi inside out! Solve endgame puzzles and play against AI opponents, perfecting your Janggi strategy.
Why similar: Chess 69.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Board Game 6.9%, Top-Down 1.8%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 59.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Board Game 6.1%, Strategy 6%
A Game of Chaess is "Monty Python meets Tolkien on a Chessboard". Defeat waves of black pieces in this asymmetrical chess game to stop the Lord of Darkness! The rules are simple, but the game gets harder and harder. Only the most fooli- eh fearless players will succeed!
Why similar: Chess 54.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Roguelike 8.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%, Tactical 5.4%
