60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Chess, Strategy, Roguelike, Turn-Based Strategy.
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.
Usurper
A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where your King is your strongest weapon. Play cards from your deck to drop units onto the battlefield and checkmate your opponent. Build your Deck, Upgrade your Ruler, and Claim the Throne.
Gambition
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.
A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where your King is your strongest weapon. Play cards from your deck to drop units onto the battlefield and checkmate your opponent. Build your Deck, Upgrade your Ruler, and Claim the Throne.
Why similar: Chess 32.6% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 20.9% ★, Roguelite 6.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%, Board Game 5.3%
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 34.8% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 22.2% ★, Deckbuilding 6.8%, Board Game 6.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.4%
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 34.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 22% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%, Board Game 6.5%, Deckbuilding 6.4%
Forget checkmate. Every capture scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder. Gather powerful floppy disks, rig your pieces (and theirs), and ignite cascading combos as you chase scores you have no right to reach.
Why similar: Chess 35.8% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.5% ★, Strategy 8.3%, Deckbuilding 7.1%, Roguelike 6.4%
Chess you already know, rules you don't. Pieces have HP and gear. Shop between fights, stack gambits, roll the dice if you're feeling stupid. Lose the trial, lose the run.
Why similar: Chess 38.2% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 25.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%, Strategy 5.9%
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 36% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 17.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Roguelite 8.3%, Deckbuilding 7.8%
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 51.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Roguelike 6.9%, Roguelite 6.2%
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 33.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 19.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Deckbuilding 7.3%, Board Game 6.9%
A chess roguelike where every run bends the rules. Build your army, wield powerful kings, and survive deadly variants on your way to proving a human can still beat the machine. Shape your build, outlast the chaos, and choose when to command the board yourself.
Why similar: Chess 44.2% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 23.8% ★, Deckbuilding 11.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Tabletop 4.6%
A roguelike deckbuilder where your cards move like chess pieces. Build an army, bless your troops, and conquer the kingdom one battle at a time.
Why similar: Chess 35.2% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 24.3% ★, Deckbuilding 7.1%, Roguelike 7.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%
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 44.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Roguelike 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.6%, Strategy 6.6%
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
Why similar: Chess 34.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 13.6% ★, Board Game 6.9%, Roguelite 6.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.4%
Start with pawns, end with clowns. Build a roster of evolving pieces, stack game-breaking stickers, and chain together absurd high scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.8% ★, Chess 16.3% ★, Deckbuilding 10%, Roguelite 7.6%, Strategy 7.1%
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: Chess 40.8% ★, Roguelite 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Board Game 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%
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 51.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Roguelite 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%, Strategy 6%
What if chess was invented by silly cosmic wizards? WizardChess is a turnbased roguelite where all the pieces have insane abilities that came to us in a shamanic vision. Fight chaotic-yet-tactical encounters with magic powers out of a fever dream! Defeat the FaeQueen and Claim Your Wish!
Why similar: Chess 32.4% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 19.2% ★, Board Game 7%, Roguelite 6.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%
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 53.3% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Roguelite 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%
The chess roguelike deckbuilder. Solo Chess is a cozy strategy game where you play chess-themed cards on a 3×3 grid, trigger piece effects, and earn points through clever combos. Build your deck with pets and food to conquer waves of unique battles.
Why similar: Chess 38.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 21.6% ★, Board Game 8.2%, Deckbuilding 7.3%, Roguelite 6.1%
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
Why similar: Chess 34.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 20.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Roguelite 7.5%, Deckbuilding 7.4%
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.
Why similar: Chess 52.8% ★, Roguelite 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Roguelike 6.8%, Strategy 6.5%
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 39.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%, Roguelite 7.7%, Board Game 7.5%
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 48.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Roguelite 9.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Board Game 9.2%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 53.9% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Board Game 9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.6%
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
Why similar: Chess 42.4% ★, Deckbuilding 9.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%, Board Game 7.8%, Roguelite 6.6%
Roguelike deckbuilding chess in the seven floors of Hell. Each floor belongs to a deadly sin, and every sin crowns its own king. Summon pieces, sling spells, and brand your army with sigils to melt the king's HP before your turns run out. Seven sins, seven kings, one deck.
Why similar: Chess 35.7% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 23% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.6%, Deckbuilding 6.1%
A roguelike tower defense on a chessboard that reshapes itself every turn. Build mazes and fend off the advancing army of black chess pieces with towers, traps, and cards.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 29.9% ★, Chess 29.7% ★, Roguelite 10.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Deckbuilding 9.4%
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Why similar: Chess 42.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Board Game 8.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%, Strategy 7.1%
Classic strategy rules are being rewritten in roguelike chaos. As a Jester who has accidentally ascended the throne, you must think like a King to survive. Manipulate the battlefield, wield your unique powers, build your deck, and rewrite your fate against all odds in this ruthless dungeon.
Why similar: Chess 32% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Roguelite 6.7%, Grid-Based Movement 6.6%
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 59.5% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Board Game 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%, Roguelike 8.4%
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 57.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Roguelite 8.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Board Game 6.5%
Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 29.1% ★, Chess 16.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Deckbuilding 9.4%, Roguelike 7.8%
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 41.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Roguelite 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Deckbuilding 7.4%
Balloon Chess is a roguelite take on chess, where you fight through waves of enemies and challenging boss matches as you ride an elevator to the top floor. Get powerful new abilities, imbue your balloons with passive effects, and build up a 'deck' of backup balloons to take on higher challenges.
Why similar: Chess 34.4% ★, Roguelite 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Deckbuilding 12.5%, Strategy 7.5%
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 56% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Roguelite 11.4%, Board Game 10.7%, Strategy 6.1%
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 59.7% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Board Game 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.5%
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 51.6% ★, Deckbuilding 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%
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 58.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Strategy 10%, Roguelike 7.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.7%
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 59.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Board Game 10.7%, Strategy 6.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.3%
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
Why similar: Chess 49.3% ★, Roguelite 9.5%, Strategy 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Board Game 7.6%
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 58.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 8%, Roguelike 7.4%
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 59.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Board Game 9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 7.8%
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 30.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Roguelite 10.5%
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 52.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Board Game 7.7%, Roguelike 7%
Sans Issue is a 2D game mixing chess and card-deck building. Use cards to summon new pieces, move your pieces in new ways, and change the board's terrain. Earn new cards via the campaign, create custom decks using the deckbuilder, and play against your friends both locally and over Steam.
Why similar: Chess 55.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Deckbuilding 10.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Board Game 6.4%
Gravity is your greatest weapon as you launch enemies into the air and spike them back down in this tactical roguelite with a unique perspective.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 30.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Roguelite 10.6%, Deckbuilding 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%
Mancalero is the ancient strategy board game of Mancala, rebuilt as a roguelike deckbuilder. Collect special marbles, stack blessings, discover synergies, and break every table with increasing scores.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 39.2% ★, Deckbuilding 13.8%, Board Game 13.4%, Roguelite 11.8%, Strategy 7.5%
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 66% ★, Board Game 12.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 65.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.8%, Board Game 6.5%
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 55.9% ★, Strategy 9%, Roguelike 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Turn-Based Combat 6.9%
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 43.9% ★, Board Game 9.6%, Roguelite 8.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.8%, Strategy 7.1%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 52.9% ★, Board Game 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Strategy 7.2%
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 63.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Board Game 12.1%, Strategy 6.2%, Tabletop 5.8%
The roguelike dicebuilder. Build your dice bag and go as far as you can in this underground casino! Earn chips, place your bets, combine unique dice, and create absurd synergies as you advance through increasingly exclusive rooms. Bet it all, challenge your luck, and reach the top — or die trying.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 35.9% ★, Roguelite 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%, Deckbuilding 8.9%, Roguelike 8.9%
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 59.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%, Board Game 7.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Strategy 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 56.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Board Game 7.4%
A fantasy grid-based strategy game with deckbuilding and unit merging! Collect and battle with different units, craft strategies and challenge difficult opponents on the gridded battlefield!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 24.5% ★, Deckbuilding 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Grid-Based Movement 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%
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 54.8% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Board Game 7.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%
Chess, but with wizards. Every piece has HP and Attack and spell cards bend the rules. Outplay a friend in hotseat, over LAN, or online and climb the leaderboard.
Why similar: Chess 53% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Board Game 8.8%, Strategy 7.1%
