
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.
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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.

Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess

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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.
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
Why similar: Chess 36.2% ★, Tactical RPG 12.7%, Board Game 8.1%, Strategy RPG 8.1%, Roguelite 7.8%
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 40.4% ★, Tactical RPG 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%, Strategy RPG 8.1%
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 39.1% ★, Tactical RPG 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, Board Game 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%
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 41.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.1%, Board Game 7.8%, Roguelite 6.7%
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 47.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Roguelite 10.6%, Board Game 7.2%
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 44.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Board Game 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Roguelite 9.5%
A turn-based RPG, except it's also chess! Every capture becomes a 1v1 battle decided by stats, elements and abilities. Build your team, climb the roguelite campaign, or duel friends and CPUs.
Why similar: Chess 33.4% ★, Tactical RPG 13.8%, Board Game 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%
A sci-fi modern Chess RPG. Recruit pilots, learn their stories, befriend them, sacrifice them. Learn chess, practice your endgames, discover new pieces and special powers. Use your mechs to defend the Middle Kingdom from the Holy Empire!
Why similar: Chess 35.6% ★, Tactical RPG 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Strategy RPG 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%
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 39.3% ★, Board Game 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.6%
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 39.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Board Game 13.4%, Roguelite 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%
Slay, crush, burn and explode filthy humans for their souls to infuse your squad with new powers and advance for total annihilation. You are the Undead in a turn based tactical RPG controlling a squad.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 19.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Strategy RPG 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Roguelite 9.6%
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 51.2% ★, Roguelite 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Strategy 7.9%
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 46.5% ★, Strategy RPG 11.9%, Board Game 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.3%
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 51.4% ★, Board Game 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%, Tactical 4.6%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 51.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Board Game 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%, Strategy 5.9%
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 38.1% ★, Tactical RPG 14.9%, Board Game 12%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.1%, Roguelite 8.7%
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 38.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Board Game 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%
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 53.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Board Game 10%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%, Dark Fantasy 6.5%
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 51.9% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Roguelite 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 5.3%
Participate in a one-on-one battle with other players or fight against AI and complete the first chapter of the campaign. Give orders to your army and watch them fight. Kill King is a fresh look at the world's most popular game - chess. Enjoy the turn-based strategy battle with RPG elements.
Why similar: Chess 38.1% ★, Tactical RPG 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Combat 6.4%
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 54.5% ★, Board Game 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%, Strategy 3.9%
Command your army in a turn-based strategy game where every move matters. Each round represents new challenges in randomly generated battles, but be careful because when your king dies your attempt is over!
Why similar: Chess 17% ★, Tactical RPG 13.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 13%, Board Game 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%
RanaRangam reimagines chess as a tactical battle of health, attacks, and step-by-step commands. Instead of instant captures, pieces can be commanded to any valid tile and then advance one step per turn, turning movement, combat, and board control into a deeper tactical battle.
Why similar: Chess 40.7% ★, Board Game 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Turn-Based Combat 6.6%
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 49.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Board Game 9.4%, Strategy 5.3%
The Bell Echoes is a story-driven tactical roguelite. Fight alongside a cast of distinctive companions as you venture deeper into the Corrupted Lands, defeat powerful foes, collect Echoes and memory fragments, and uncover the truth behind the characters and the world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 17%, Strategy RPG 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Board Game 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%
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 39.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Board Game 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Roguelite 8.4%
No more taking turns. Both players move at once in this tactical chess variant where military power-ups reshape the battlefield every round
Why similar: Chess 41.9% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Strategy RPG 13.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%
Lead the warriors of a doomed kingdom in this dark, tactical SRPG. All stats can be damaged by normal attacks, so even powerful units weaken over time. With scarce supplies and steadily deteriorating allies, you must make tough decisions to keep your squad alive—sometimes at great cost.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.5%, Strategy RPG 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.5%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 47.3% ★, Board Game 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Turn-Based Combat 6.2%
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 48.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Board Game 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Tactical 6.9%
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 46.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Board Game 7.7%, Tactical 7.4%
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 55.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Roguelite 9%, Board Game 9%, Strategy 4.5%
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% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Board Game 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%, Roguelite 7.6%
This is the next installment of Legend of Cina, it's a bit more simple and hopefully you will like it.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 26.4%, Strategy RPG 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%
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 55.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.4%, Board Game 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Strategy 4.6%
Dicey Darlings is a dark-cute board-game roguelite—fantasy as placement and pressure, not another climb-and-stack. Move acrylic standees; settle talk and fights with dice on the table. Clear maps and build from spells and trinkets each run: a rarer branch where one roll rewrites the board.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 15.9%, Board Game 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Strategy RPG 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%
A deep turn‑based tactics RPG featuring emergent stories, procedural world events, enemy factions, magical loot with drawbacks, and a fully simulated fantasy sandbox. Build your mercenary company, survive brutal battles, and uncover new content. Solo‑dev indie project with active development.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Tactical RPG 18.5%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%
Valiant Tactics is a turn-based roguelite RPG without hit chance RNG. As a loyal knight, you will assemble a team of fearless heroes, grow their power, arm them with mighty artifacts, then confront and defeat the usurper who killed your king and restore the kingdom!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.2%, Strategy RPG 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Roguelite 11.9%
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 53.3% ★, Roguelite 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%, Board Game 4.3%
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 52.6% ★, Board Game 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%
Do you like to burn things? We do! A combat turn-based RPG / strategy game. About burning down the world... New - Play in Heretic mode and fight a sandbox style fight against the forces of fire!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25.4%, Strategy RPG 17.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 6.9%
Sail from a cozy tavern into cursed, ever-changing islands in this tactical turn-based RPG. Bring back treasure, unlock classes, recruit allies, and let an ancient chest shape every voyage.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Strategy RPG 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Roguelite 11.4%
Final Hope: The Plot is a turn-based Tactical RPG with a medieval theme. Create your hero and embark on the odyssey of Uthread, a young adventurer who was born predestined to change the history of his world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23%, Strategy RPG 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Combat 8.1%
Warriors clash in an epic chess battle where the fallen can be revived through the King’s Mana! Choose your battlefield, I mean your board, craft your ultimate strategy, harness your Mana, and defeat your enemy to claim glory!
Why similar: Chess 45.2% ★, Board Game 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Medieval 5.8%
A Touhou Project SRPG game. Include: 30+PlayableUnits, 100 classes, 100+SpellCards, 100+EnemyUnits, 50+TouhouFanBgm and dozens of terrain types. Make Best Unit by combining class, talent, accessory, and tarot. U can even use SpellCards from other Units: sush as Koishi using FinalSpark
Why similar: Tactical RPG 16.1%, Strategy RPG 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Board Game 10.9%
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 49.6% ★, Board Game 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, Strategy 6.2%
"The real chess was the friends we made along the way." - Randy Mc'Chess
Why similar: Chess 47.7% ★, Tactical RPG 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Board Game 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%
The Overlord returns to save the world from impending doom. Command a team of heroes, develop their abilities, combine powerful skills, and use the terrain to your advantage in engaging tactical battles.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 15.8%, Strategy RPG 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Tactical 9.3%
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 57.8% ★, Board Game 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 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 61.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Board Game 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Strategy 5%
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 58% ★, Board Game 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Strategy 6.9%
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 49.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Board Game 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Combat 4.4%
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 62.6% ★, Board Game 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 57.6% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Top-Down 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 50.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Roguelite 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Board Game 6.7%
Solo Grinding is a Tactical RPG Roguelite. Fight your way floor by floor and enter a tournament alongside 5 powerful warriors. The goal is simple, reach the legendary Last Floor. Learn skills directly from enemies and create unique builds to fight your way to the top and uncover hidden secrets.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.4%, Strategy RPG 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Roguelite 10.5%
A 2D tactical RPG set in an empire on the brink. Lead your soldiers, exploit weapon matchups and break enemy morale. Eight chapters, solo or in co-op for two to three, with different endings shaped by the battles. Play in English, French or Italian.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 26.1%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Combat 7%
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Roguelite 10.7%, Strategy RPG 10.3%
Personality Imprint is a grid-based tactical RPG where MBTI traits drive your strategic choices. In a dark fantasy dystopia, deep-dive into your squad's personalities, master the Imprint combination, and conquer a constantly shifting battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 22.1%, Tactical RPG 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Strategy 7.5%