
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!
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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!

Grandmaster's Revenge
They say one person in the field is not a warrior. And what if this one is called to fight by the White Grandmaster himself, endowed with super powers and even the ground on which he steps helps him. Find out in the new skirmish of the Grandmasters and regain control over all the clans of Whitehills

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.
They say one person in the field is not a warrior. And what if this one is called to fight by the White Grandmaster himself, endowed with super powers and even the ground on which he steps helps him. Find out in the new skirmish of the Grandmasters and regain control over all the clans of Whitehills
Why similar: Chess 58.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Procedural Generation 7.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%, Turn-Based Combat 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 60.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Roguelike 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.7%
A chess-based spell roguelite where strategy is created in the moment, not memorized. Equip 150+ spells, upgrade your pieces, and rewrite the rules. Grow a skill tree as you climb 7 towers of escalating enemies and bosses. Your mind is the armory.
Why similar: Chess 59.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.4%, Indie 3%
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 59.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Roguelike 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.4%
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 52.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Roguelike 11.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%
Master the art of turn-based chess mechanics in ever-changing dungeons! Navigate bridges, teleporters, and more as you strategize your way to victory in this unique chess roguelike adventure. Plus, create your own maps and explore others' creations!
Why similar: Chess 51.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Dungeon Crawler 9.8%, Roguelike 8.5%, Strategy 6.3%
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 58.2% ★, Roguelike 11%, Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%, Turn-Based Combat 5.8%
Build a chess army. Break the rules. Collect buffs that make your pieces addictively OP, with knights that roam the entire board, rooks that smash through anything. Use items like bombs or potions to cause even more chaos. No king to checkmate. Just enemies to destroy.
Why similar: Chess 45.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Roguelike 8.5%, Dungeon Crawler 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.8%
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 61.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Roguelike 7.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%
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 66.4% ★, Strategy 12.3%, Roguelike 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 1.8%
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 46.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Roguelike 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%
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 64.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%, Indie 1.2%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 63.3% ★, Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%, Turn-Based Combat 2.5%
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 57.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Roguelike 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 4%
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 58.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Roguelike 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%, Strategy 5.7%
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 33% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Roguelike 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.4%
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 72.3% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Why similar: Chess 56.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Roguelike 10.1%, Strategy 7.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.7%
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 68.1% ★, Strategy 9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%, Roguelike 8.3%, Action 5.2%
Command a living chess army across ancient battlefields in this tactical roguelike. Level up your pieces, unlock abilities, gamble with NPCs, and conquer 5 campaigns solo or with 2-4 players in local co-op. Push your limits in endless mode, or clash in arena. Every piece matters. Every move counts.
Why similar: Chess 48.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Roguelike 9.8%, Dungeon Crawler 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.9%
A game combining chess and card games with roguelike elements. You can move with the cards in your hand. With only a joker piece as start, you can build up a powerful army. With Upgrade Cards changing how you play, and Curses that help the enemy, every run feels different.
Why similar: Chess 43.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Roguelike 13%, Strategy 8.9%, Turn-Based Combat 6.9%
FRITZ CHESS 14! The Ultimate Chess SoftwarePlay against FRITZ or play online at FRITZ CHESS 14 is the most comprehensive chess program in the world. Whether you are new to the game or a Grandmaster, FRITZ 14 is suitable for all skill levels!
Chess battle is re-imagined as 3D! In this variation of chess, we have up-to 8 parallel boards and the pieces can travel between them.
Why similar: Chess 51.6% ★, Strategy 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Indie 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A chess arcade game where you play against the strongest chess engine in the world.
Why similar: Chess 87% ★, Strategy 11.4%, 2D 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 64.3% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.6%, Pixel Graphics 2.6%
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. From the award-winning creators of Duskers & A Virus Named TOM.
Why similar: Chess 44.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Dungeon Crawler 10.1%, Roguelike 9.4%, Strategy 7.5%
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 57.2% ★, Strategy 27.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
A two-player online (choose an opponent from your Steam friends list) Chess, in an edgeless landscape called "Kingland", with upgrades.
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. 10 brand new chess pieces to master. How many waves can you survive?
Why similar: Chess 63.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.4%
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 69.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.8%, Indie 1.3%
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 68.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.8%, Top-Down 1.9%
You are a pawn in an endless but not always fair chess world. Enslave your enemies and turn them into slaves. Build your own army. On the path to glory you will face alcoholism, alligators and ludomania. Test your luck in OVERCHESS.
Why similar: Chess 55.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Roguelike 12.5%, Strategy 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.2%
Save the forest in this improved version of chess with new boards with obstacles and power-ups.
Why similar: Chess 66.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Strategy 9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 2.9%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 61% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%, Turn-Based Combat 4.5%
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 71.3% ★, Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Combat 7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.2%, Indie 1.5%
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 66.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.8%, 2D 0.7%
Chess is broken. Gather the Black Army, build a party of chess pieces, and battle through fractured boards in this asymmetric turn-based roguelike. Empower your army, adapt your strategy each run, and unravel the mystery behind a world trapped in an endless match.
Why similar: Chess 47.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Roguelike 10.3%, Dungeon Crawler 9.5%, Strategy 7%
A chess roguelike where pieces have HP, gear, and gambits. Build your army in the shop, fight damage-based trials, and push through bosses. Every move is tactics — and a gamble.
Why similar: Chess 54.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Roguelike 8.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.9%
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 74.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
Why similar: Chess 59.1% ★, Roguelike 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Strategy 9.9%, Turn-Based Combat 3.7%
A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces don't stay as they are. Earn upgrades, unlock branching skill trees, and build your warband across runs as you fight through 10 boss encounters, each one rewriting the rules to take you apart.
Why similar: Chess 52.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.7%, Strategy 7%, Roguelike 5.5%
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 54.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Roguelike 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%, Strategy 7.6%
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 78% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
ChessRPG is a revisited chess game in pixel art. Each player chooses a medieval fantasy people, gaining access to pieces with various characteristics that turn every match into a fresh tactical battle.
Why similar: Chess 64.4% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%
Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players. Beautifully done in rendered 3D graphics, Combat Chess adds stunning animation sequences during gameplay.
Why similar: Chess 71.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.4%, Turn-Based Combat 3.2%
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 62.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.5%, Top-Down 1.9%
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 63.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%, Turn-Based Combat 2.1%
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 56.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Roguelike 9.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.6%
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 68.6% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.7%, Indie 1.3%
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 58.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Roguelike 9.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%
Chess Defense is a strategy tower defense game where chess pieces become your towers.
Why similar: Chess 69.8% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Roguelike 9.9%, Action 2.4%, Top-Down 2.4%
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 75.3% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.9%, Indie 1.6%, 2D 1.1%
A simple yet satisfying game of chess that anyone can play - and learn from. Challenge a powerful chess AI, play against your friends, and try to get through a massive tower of puzzles!
Why similar: Chess 64% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Strategy 17.2%
What if Chess…was a roguelite? Assemble your party and battle your way across a broken kingdom in a fantastical, tactical take on Chess. Loot epic gear, recruit powerful pieces with unique abilities, and strategize your way to victory.
Why similar: Chess 66.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.3%, Indie 2.1%
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 73.7% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%, Top-Down 2.4%, 2D 1.4%
Relax, strategize, and master chess in a sleek 3D sci-fi world. Play against friends or other players online, or challenge smart AI.
Why similar: Chess 41.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, Strategy 21.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%, Indie 2.1%
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Why similar: Chess 55.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Roguelike 11.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.9%