
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.
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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.

Gambonanza
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!

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
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% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Board Game 10.3%, Roguelike 9%, Strategy 6.5%
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Why similar: Chess 54.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Roguelike 9.8%, Strategy 7%, Tabletop 5.1%
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 45.2% ★, Board Game 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Roguelike 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.4%
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 51.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Roguelike 11.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%
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 47% ★, Roguelike 10.8%, Board Game 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Strategy 6.4%
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 52% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%, Roguelite 6.9%, Roguelike 6.7%
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: Chess 26.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Roguelike 15.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Deckbuilding 8.7%
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
Why similar: Chess 49.2% ★, Board Game 9.9%, Roguelike 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%, Deckbuilding 6.3%
Mate'Morphosis is a pixel art, chess-inspired puzzle game built around the concept of becoming the piece you capture. Outsmart each board, adapt to evolving mechanics, and hunt down the rival king across every stage.
Why similar: Chess 69.6% ★, Logic 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Board Game 4.1%, Casual 3%
Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies. Combine abilities, upgrades, and relics to create game-breaking builds. Think fast, die, learn, repeat!
Why similar: Chess 66.3% ★, Roguelike 12.7%, Roguelite 10%, Strategy 8.7%, Casual 2.3%
From letters to lunacy, Cursed Words is a roguelike chasing ever-stronger synergies. Start with simple words like BUY or THIS or GAME, then use game-altering combos to break the rules. Before long you’ll be ¼♖♙K5XNG the ⅗H♗4 out of these 83VK??7?!
Why similar: Strategy 30.5%, Roguelike 26%, Roguelite 13.9%, Casual 13.3%, Deckbuilding 10.2%
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 73.6% ★, Board Game 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.4%, Strategy 4.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.6%
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
Why similar: Roguelike 20.9%, Board Game 19.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Roguelite 14.6%
Sol Cesto is a tactical and frantic roguelite where mastering your luck is key. Choose a hero, upgrade them using cursed teeth and magical items, and descend to the bottom of an ever-changing dungeon. In this dark world, every action has consequences…
Why similar: Roguelike 35.2%, Strategy 20.2%, Roguelite 17.5%, Deckbuilding 14.8%, Choices Matter 6.3%
THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.
Why similar: Chess 50.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Board Game 11.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Why similar: Roguelike 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Deckbuilding 14%, Roguelite 13.9%
Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!
Why similar: Chess 46.7% ★, Board Game 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Tabletop 7.8%
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 50.1% ★, Board Game 11.8%, Roguelike 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.7%, Strategy 7.3%
DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
Why similar: Strategy 40.4%, Roguelike 29.8%, Deckbuilding 19.2%, Casual 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Why similar: Roguelike 28.1%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Roguelite 12.7%
Dice With Death is a Dicebuilding Roguelike – Unfortunately you have already died. Fortunately, Death is up for some friendly competition. Collect new dice and relics, create damage stacking combos, and even cheat Death himself to emerge victorious.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, Board Game 20.1%, Roguelike 20%, Deckbuilding 13.5%, Strategy 12.6%
Dice Assassin is a challenging game where you defeat enemies on the board according to the dice numbers. Choose attacks using cards, position yourself strategically to overcome enemies on the board, and devise tactics using action cards.
Why similar: Chess 44.2% ★, Roguelike 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Board Game 8.2%
LuckLand is a strategy casual game that combines elements such as card building and Roguelike. To achieve ultimate victory, all you need to do is rotate the chessboard. This game does not include any real world currency gambling or micro trading.
Why similar: Board Game 17.9%, Roguelike 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Deckbuilding 12%
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
Why similar: Roguelike 31.5%, Strategy 22.2%, Deckbuilding 20.4%, Roguelite 17.1%, Casual 5.2%
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 57.2% ★, Board Game 12.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Tabletop 7.2%, Logic 6.5%
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 70% ★, Board Game 14.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Logic 4.1%, Casual 2.5%
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Why similar: Roguelike 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Roguelite 14.3%, Deckbuilding 14%
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
Why similar: Board Game 20.3%, Roguelike 17.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Roguelite 12.7%, Strategy 12.1%
A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.
Why similar: Roguelike 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Deckbuilding 13.9%, Roguelite 12%
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: Chess 36.2% ★, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%, Tabletop 10.5%
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 59.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Board Game 7.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.7%
Experience a dark twist on classic chess where your captured pieces are infected and rise to join the undead army! Adapt to asymmetrical battlefields, protect the White Kingdom, and lead King Leonard against his greatest, most sinister enemy yet: His own reflection.
Why similar: Chess 59.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Board Game 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6%
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: Chess 33.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Strategy 13%, Board Game 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
Assemble the ultimate team of Mexican wrestlers in this roguelike auto-battler. Combine unique units with powerful items to discover hundreds of synergies while battling your way through.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.2%, Roguelike 20.7%, Strategy 19.2%, Roguelite 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.6%
Letterlike is a challenging roguelike word game that's all about collecting cards, upgrading words, and upgrading letter tiles to make the strongest synergies and reach the highest scores!
Why similar: Roguelike 27.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Roguelite 17.3%, Board Game 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.7%
Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
Why similar: Roguelike 30.9%, Deckbuilding 22.9%, Roguelite 20.5%, Strategy 18.9%, Casual 2.9%
Wulin Chess is a turn-based strategy game set in a captivating dark fantasy world. Employ diverse characters across various boards/battlefields, and devise strategic thinking for victory. Strengthen your heroes by collecting equipment and enhancing attributes to face the challenges that lie ahead.
Why similar: Roguelike 31.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.9%, Strategy 21.9%, Roguelite 19.5%, Singleplayer 4.6%
Shuffle chaos. Brew victory. A roguelike deckbuilder where relics, potions, and risky hands rule the table. An arcane twist on Cribbage where potions and relics supercharge your cards and the deck always has an attitude. Choose your build wisely, the cards show no mercy!
Why similar: Roguelike 28%, Deckbuilding 18%, Strategy 16.9%, Roguelite 13.8%, Logic 9.3%
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Roguelike 23.4%, Strategy 16.7%, Deckbuilding 15.4%, Roguelite 15.2%
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.8%, Roguelike 20.3%, Deckbuilding 14.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Roguelite 13%
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 58.7% ★, Board Game 13.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Logic 6.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.8%
The roguelike dungeon crawler where you're a billiard ball! Push monster balls into holes or traps in randomly generated levels. Stack up countless game-changing items to create broken builds. Find combos to create your own synergies and customize your playstyle. Rack and Slay!
Why similar: Roguelike 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Strategy 15%, Roguelite 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%
"Bingle Bingle" is a "roulette-building" game where you create your own roulette wheel and build strategies around it. Combine balls, bets, tokens, pockets, and badges to trigger adrenaline-pumping synergies, win millions or billions of chips, and beat the casino.
Why similar: Roguelike 21.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Deckbuilding 14.2%, Roguelite 13.2%
Play the ancient and thrilling game of Chess but with... cats! Lead your furry friends to the Purrfect battle of brains and whiskers!
Why similar: Chess 53.7% ★, Board Game 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.9%
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 63.7% ★, Board Game 14.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.3%, Casual 2.6%
Strategize, collect, upgrade. Tetra Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilder inspired by Triple Triad, featuring deep meta-progression and endless replayability. Outwit opponents on a 4x4 tactical grid, traverse branching maps, augment your cards, and combine powerful abilities to build the ultimate deck.
Why similar: Roguelike 24.3%, Board Game 24.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.4%, Strategy 15.9%, Deckbuilding 15.8%
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 69.9% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Tabletop 2.8%, 3D 1.5%
Play classic chess on Steam: challenge AI opponents, invite friends online, solve puzzles, customize your board, and unlock achievements.
Why similar: Chess 46.1% ★, Board Game 20%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Casual 8%, Strategy 7.1%
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 18.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.8%, Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Board Game 12.9%
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 71% ★, Board Game 14.1%, Strategy 10.9%, PvE 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Synergize perks, manipulate stock prices, and trade wisely or risk pricing yourself out.
Why similar: Roguelike 21.6%, Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Deckbuilding 15%, Roguelite 13.3%
The deckbuilding roguelike with no energy – play cards using physical space! Slot cards together, manipulate the shape of your cards, and create overpowered combos to break the game!
Why similar: Strategy 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.8%, Roguelike 17.8%, Deckbuilding 16.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this roguelike merge-builder! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!
Why similar: Roguelike 27.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.4%, Strategy 19.6%, Deckbuilding 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%
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 74.4% ★, Logic 10.2%, Tabletop 4.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.2%, Casual 3.7%
Roguelike Squad-based Autobattler in a Tabletop RPG setting. Draft your army, carefully equip and position your units, make important choices, and meet a colorful cast of characters as you make ready for the Grand Tournament.
Why similar: Board Game 21.6%, Roguelike 20.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Tabletop 12.1%
We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!
Why similar: Roguelike 33.9%, Strategy 21.2%, Deckbuilding 20.4%, Roguelite 18.5%, Singleplayer 4.1%
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 55.1% ★, Board Game 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Tabletop 6.6%
RoGlass is a tile-based roguelite puzzle game where you place unique tiles to score points and unlock new spaces. Reset the board once you're out of tiles but keep progress on achievements, unlocks, etc. Keep expanding the board and try to unlock every achievement!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 33.8%, Roguelite 24.2%, Strategy 23.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%, 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: Strategy 34.4%, Board Game 33.1%, Casual 14.5%, Logic 9.9%, Tabletop 6.9%
UPGRADE YOUR BALLS! Roguelike meets Plinko! Every choice is a strategy; every run is a unique challenge. Build your deck to tame the balls to your will. Take your chance, craft your fate, and cash in!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 28.3%, Roguelike 26.4%, Strategy 19.8%, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Casual 5.3%