
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.
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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.

RanaRangam: Where Chess Pieces Bleed
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.

Weapon Gambit
Roll your weapons, plan your every move! A bite-sized tactical puzzle blending dice and chess. Strategize your positioning with the rolled weapons to dismantle enemy defenses. Strike directly at the Monster Crystal before your turns run out!
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 31.4% ★, Board Game 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Local Multiplayer 8.6%
Roll your weapons, plan your every move! A bite-sized tactical puzzle blending dice and chess. Strategize your positioning with the rolled weapons to dismantle enemy defenses. Strike directly at the Monster Crystal before your turns run out!
Why similar: Chess 29.7% ★, Board Game 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Turn-Based Combat 7.3%
A turn-based chess battler where every capture becomes a tactical duel. Use unique piece abilities, reposition your own pieces, play against bots, challenge friends locally, or progress through Story Mode.
Why similar: Chess 18.2% ★, Board Game 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Local Multiplayer 12.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.7%
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 43.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Board Game 8.8%, Tactical 8.1%
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 43.5% ★, Board Game 15.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%, Tactical 5.8%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 39.4% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Combat 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 39.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Board Game 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Tactical 5%
A fantasy chess variant. An enchanted board where pawns hide magical secrets. Hatch dragons, transform enemy pieces into unicorns. Outwit clever computer opponents: Jester, Bard, or Wizard —or pass and play. Beginner-friendly to deliciously strategic. Handcrafted pixel art. Local gameplay, so retro!
Why similar: Chess 41.2% ★, Board Game 10.8%, Local Multiplayer 8.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.7%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 44.7% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%, Strategy 5.5%
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 39.8% ★, Board Game 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Local Multiplayer 6.6%
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 43.5% ★, Board Game 10.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%, Medieval 7.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%
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 47.1% ★, Board Game 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Local Multiplayer 9.4%, Strategy 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 42.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Board Game 10.5%, Tactical 5.8%
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 36.4% ★, Board Game 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Turn-Based Combat 9.4%
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 47.3% ★, Board Game 13.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%, Local Multiplayer 8.4%
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 41.2% ★, Board Game 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Tactical 8.7%
Play chess online, vs AI, or vs a local player in our clean 2D and 2.5D chess game. Play against any of your Steam friends, even if they dont own the game.
Why similar: Chess 38.8% ★, Board Game 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Logic 7.4%
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 41.3% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Strategy 5.5%
Save the forest in this improved version of chess with new boards with obstacles and power-ups.
Why similar: Chess 44.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Tactical 7.6%, Local Multiplayer 6.9%
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 47% ★, Board Game 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.5%, Retro 6.7%
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 47.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Tactical 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%, Strategy 5.9%
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 37.9% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Medieval 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 34.4% ★, Board Game 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 7.8%
GoblinChess is a new type of chess game where we introduce ten different magical cards to the gameplay, and some chaos if you want. You can play online or against the built in robot.
Why similar: Chess 41.6% ★, Board Game 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Strategy 6.4%, Turn-Based Combat 6.2%
Vantageous is a competitive board game, where you have to strategize your piece placement, stack your pieces to increase their range and outsmart your opponent. You can play on the same device, online or against the computer! Play against your friends or challenge the rank ladder!
Why similar: Chess 34.9% ★, Board Game 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Turn-Based Combat 7%
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 42.6% ★, Board Game 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Local Multiplayer 7.2%
Master Xiangqi anytime! Thrilling games, custom boards & challenging AI.
Why similar: Chess 45.2% ★, Board Game 13.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Logic 6.2%, Local Multiplayer 5.7%
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 48.4% ★, Board Game 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%, Tactical 4%
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 33.3% ★, Board Game 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%, Tactical 6.6%
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 51.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%, Board Game 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Logic 4.7%
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 38.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Board Game 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
Why similar: Chess 38.9% ★, Board Game 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Logic 9.2%, Family Friendly 5.1%
Chess v Checkers is a mashup of two popular games Chess and Checkers. Play as either side on the game board through three distinct game modes.
Why similar: Chess 47.7% ★, Board Game 12.9%, Logic 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%, Puzzle 5.9%
Radial Chess is a chess game that preserves all traditional rules and mechanics while reimagining the board as a radial spatial structure, where players compete against AI or locally in a transformed geometric interpretation of classic chess.
Why similar: Chess 31.9% ★, Board Game 18.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Logic 7.3%, Tactical 6.3%
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 41.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Tactical 9.7%, Board Game 9%
A toy-table tactical strategy game where commanders move soldiers, tanks, engineers, radar, SAM sites, and aircraft across fogged battlefields. Outmaneuver your opponent through positioning, terrain, supply pressure, and air missions in MiliChess, Req. Ammo, or classic Chess modes.
Why similar: Chess 38.5% ★, Board Game 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Local Multiplayer 7.6%
Why do we have to be restricted by the chess rule of only moving a piece per player turn? What if we can move all pieces in a single turn? This game do exactly that!!! Plus a pretty good multi kill effect :)
Why similar: Chess 32.3% ★, Board Game 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%, Turn-Based Combat 8.2%
Whether you’re a beginner or a veteran, this fully featured chess game from Capstone has all the tools and features you need to learn and master the game of chess. Challenge an opponent with five adjustable skill levels from beginner to grandmaster.
Why similar: Chess 39.1% ★, Board Game 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Retro 5.6%, Logic 5.4%
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 47.3% ★, Board Game 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%, Strategy 5.8%
Play classic chess on Steam: challenge AI opponents, invite friends online, solve puzzles, customize your board, and unlock achievements.
Why similar: Chess 32.7% ★, Board Game 24.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Local Multiplayer 10.4%, Logic 9.7%
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 44.5% ★, Board Game 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Combat 5.1%
A chess game where you can combine your own pieces by capturing them. The combined piece moves as both pieces that got combined or with new rules when combining two pieces of same type. It's improving chess by making it more exciting & dynamic.
Why similar: Chess 37.1% ★, Board Game 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Local Multiplayer 9.4%, Logic 9.2%
Command your swarm in Hex Clash: The Fractured Combs! In this turn-based strategic multiplayer game, face 5 Legendary Queens across Planet Hexanor. Farm Nectar, convert it to Pollen, Honey, and Stars to unlock epic cosmetics from Colony Chests. Unleash magical skills and rule the hex grid!
Why similar: Board Game 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Chess 11.3% ★, Strategy 8.3%
A turn-based strategy board game for 2 or 4 players, with online and local multiplayer. Command soldiers, towers, and kings to outmaneuver your opponent and capture their king or claim their corner.
Why similar: Chess 38.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Board Game 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Turn-Based Combat 6.4%
Chess, but continuous! Avalog is a free game for playing analog chess with others, either locally or online. As well as a 'classic' mode, there is a 'draft' mode, where players pick pieces from 5 different factions.
Why similar: Chess 42.1% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Local Multiplayer 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 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 42.1% ★, Board Game 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Turn-Based Combat 8.9%
Prove you're worthy of King's Challenge! Master items, navigation, and combat in over 30 levels of increasing difficulty! Many contenders have failed before. Will you be able to defeat King and claim the ultimate prize?
Why similar: Board Game 22%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Chess 12.4% ★, Turn-Based Combat 8.1%
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 36.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Tactical 10.4%, Logic 8.7%
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 48.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Logic 5.6%, Board Game 5.2%
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 53% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Puzzle 6.2%, Tactical 5.2%
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 50.2% ★, Board Game 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Puzzle 6.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.4%
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 53.6% ★, Board Game 16.9%, Local Multiplayer 15.1%, Strategy 5.2%, Family Friendly 3.1%
Anime arrives to chess! And with new technology! Improve your skills with the game analysis tool at no extra cost, and test them against players around the globe and even your friends. Including those who don’t own the game! May your kingdom thrive!
Why similar: Chess 37.4% ★, Board Game 19.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Local Multiplayer 8.3%, Tactical 6.7%
Chess on hexagonal field with local play, online multiplayer & against AI. Based on Gliński's chess variant.
Why similar: Chess 42.8% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Local Multiplayer 7.4%
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 39.7% ★, Board Game 18%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Medieval 4.3%
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 51.7% ★, Board Game 18.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Top-Down 4.3%
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 43.4% ★, Board Game 16.4%, Local Multiplayer 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.4%
Four chessboards. One barrel. Every "safe" square you know is a lie here. Chess just lost its edges, and so did your confidence. Four boards fused into one barrel. Same rules, no walls, nowhere to trap a king. Face BarrelBot, running real Stockfish Engine across all 4 boards.
Why similar: Chess 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%, Logic 9.6%
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 42.9% ★, Board Game 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%, Local Multiplayer 8.1%
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 53.4% ★, Board Game 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Logic 6.7%