
A chess-based roguelike tactics game where you empower pieces with cards, build tag synergies, and shape each run through strategic choices.
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A chess-based roguelike tactics game where you empower pieces with cards, build tag synergies, and shape each run through strategic choices.

Lilith's Game
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.

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.
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 55.2% ★, Board Game 15.1%, PvE 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Strategy 4.7%
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 56.1% ★, Board Game 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Roguelite 7.4%, Strategy 6.4%
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 59.5% ★, Board Game 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 3.8%, 3D 2.3%
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 58% ★, Board Game 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Strategy 7.2%, 3D 2.1%
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 58.8% ★, Board Game 19.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Strategy 4.4%, 3D 2.1%
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 58.4% ★, Roguelite 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Indie 1.7%
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 57.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Roguelite 12.8%, Board Game 11.1%, Strategy 4.4%
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 66.5% ★, Board Game 22.2%, Strategy 7.5%, 3D 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 50.4% ★, Board Game 20.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 1.8%
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 53.5% ★, Board Game 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Roguelite 11.4%, Strategy 3.3%
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 60.3% ★, Board Game 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Strategy 4.6%
You know how the pieces move. You don't know how they die. A chess roguelike where every piece bleeds. Level them, perk them or lose them forever. Take the enemy King's head, or bleed their army dry. One path saves you. One damns you. Hell keeps score.
Why similar: Chess 68.8% ★, Board Game 16.8%, Strategy 6.1%, Dark Fantasy 5.6%, 3D 2.2%
If regular chess has become stale and you're looking for a unique, new challenge, Chess++ is the game for you! Play a game against the AI in a chess board with 3 dimensions, new movesets, and new rules.
Why similar: Chess 62.5% ★, Board Game 22.4%, Strategy 10.5%, 3D 3.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 58.2% ★, Board Game 13.5%, PvE 10.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%
A casual puzzle played with 4 sided chits with a swords or a shield on an edge played on a classic chess board. when chits clash they may rotate or capture the other, your objective is to capture the crown chits, there are 4 on both sides.
Why similar: Chess 62.6% ★, Board Game 28.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Chaos Chess is a new chess variant that turns every capture into a battle. Think twice before attacking and prepare for the consequences. Build your army, fight through four custom campaigns, and challenge players worldwide in a tactical RPG twist on classic chess.
Why similar: Chess 51.7% ★, Board Game 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 7.3%, PvE 6.5%
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 48.2% ★, Board Game 20.7%, Roguelite 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Strategy 4.2%
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 67.6% ★, Board Game 23.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 63.2% ★, Board Game 12.9%, Roguelite 10.1%, PvE 5.4%, Strategy 5.3%
chess simulator game
Why similar: Chess 70.1% ★, Board Game 18.8%, Simulation 6.3%, 3D 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Learn chess by reliving the greatest games of all time. Train with 70+ tutorials, 150+ puzzles, and interactive quests where you guess the moves of legends like Tal, Fischer, and Carlsen. Includes variants, analysis tools, and 2D/3D boards.
Why similar: Chess 56.9% ★, Board Game 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%, Strategy 6.1%, PvE 3.8%
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 55.9% ★, Board Game 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 7.2%, PvE 3.9%
Thumper Chess is a free to play chess game with basic animated pieces. Better looking and more fun chess sets, maps, animations, etc... are available in cheap DLC content.
Why similar: Chess 53.8% ★, Board Game 29.2%, Strategy 12.1%, 3D 4.9%
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 61.9% ★, Board Game 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Strategy 5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Play the ancient game of "Hnefatafl" in style on your PC, in Singleplayer mode against the AI or Multiplayer over the internet. "Hnefatafl" is a strategic, chess-like boardgame with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era.
Why similar: Chess 47.9% ★, Board Game 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Indie 3.5%
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 51.9% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Roguelite 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 5.3%
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 54.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Board Game 13%, Roguelite 8.7%, Strategy 5.3%
Welcome to the Chess Game of Tomorrow!
Why similar: Chess 55.5% ★, Board Game 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 63.1% ★, Board Game 19.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Strategy 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Lead ten animal armies in 3D chess. Challenge the computer across five difficulties or play a friend locally. Learn with Danger Sense and 100 guided lessons, solve 100 mate-in-two puzzles, and conquer the nine-battle Gauntlet.
Why similar: Chess 68.1% ★, Board Game 20.4%, Strategy 6.4%, 3D 3.4%, Indie 0.8%
A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does
Why similar: Chess 55.2% ★, Board Game 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, PvE 10.4%, Strategy 4.5%
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 57.5% ★, Board Game 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Roguelite 8.1%, Strategy 6.8%
Escape custom chess boards with your king while your opponent hunts you down. Play campaigns, solve puzzles, compete locally or ranked online, and build your own puzzles and campaigns in the editor.
Why similar: Chess 58.3% ★, Board Game 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Simulation 3.4%
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 56% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Roguelite 11.4%, Board Game 10.7%, Strategy 6.1%
The world's most popular board game enhanced with unique pieces, various maps and new game modes. Experience gorgeous graphics, engaging campaign, challenging puzzles and diverse battles.
Why similar: Chess 58.2% ★, Board Game 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 5%, 3D 2.9%
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 62.8% ★, Roguelite 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Board Game 6.4%, Strategy 5.1%
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 62.1% ★, Board Game 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
Why similar: Chess 54.7% ★, Board Game 15.4%, Roguelite 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Strategy 5.8%
Play Capture-the-King Raumschach, invented in 1907 and made more playable by futuristic visuals! Spread out cells and helpful highlighting maximize the player's ability to visualize the board. The game features public and private lobbies.
Why similar: Chess 36.9% ★, Board Game 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Strategy 11.5%, 3D 4.5%
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 49.1% ★, Board Game 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Roguelite 8.6%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 4% ★
Various board games based on chess, checkers and others on different boards.
Why similar: Chess 55.8% ★, Board Game 44.2%
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 67.3% ★, Board Game 18.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 4.7%, Indie 0.8%
Play classic chess against girls who tease, provoke, and challenge you.
Why similar: Chess 63% ★, Board Game 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Strategy 5.2%, Indie 0.6%
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: Chess 59.4% ★, Board Game 32.2%, Strategy 8.4%
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 48.4% ★, Board Game 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Roguelite 10.2%, PvE 7.6%
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 65.9% ★, Board Game 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Strategy 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Infernal Chess is a dark fantasy chess game set in the fiery depths of hell. Battle on a volcanic chessboard with creature-themed pieces and master strategic gameplay as you navigate the intense atmosphere of the inferno!
Why similar: Chess 52.4% ★, Board Game 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%, Strategy 4.6%
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 69.1% ★, Board Game 20.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 72% ★, Board Game 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 59.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Roguelite 11.2%, Board Game 9.8%, Strategy 5.6%
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 62.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Board Game 14.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Indie 0.8%
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 69.8% ★, Board Game 21.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 67.6% ★, Board Game 22.9%, Strategy 7%, 3D 2.5%
Not a chess. It is a war strategy. Tamerlane Chess is the digital version of the board Timur used to shape his battlefield tactics. With a larger board, unique pieces, and deep strategy, every move demands the mindset of a true commander.
Why similar: Chess 55.9% ★, Board Game 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 4.5%
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
Why similar: Chess 57.2% ★, Board Game 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 4.6%
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 68% ★, Board Game 22.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Je Di Bo is a chaotic, deep turn-based card strategy where chess-like logic meets unpredictability. Move pieces, upgrade their ranks, and dominate the board. But beware: every 7 turns, Karma rolls the dice and completely changes the rules of engagement. Can you outsmart the chaos?
Why similar: Chess 46.9% ★, Board Game 26%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Strategy 7.4%, PvE 3.4%