
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Turn-Based Tactics, Board Game, Chess, Strategy.

The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.

The Ouroboros King
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.

Prismarch
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...
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 35.7% ★, Board Game 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Difficult 11%, Roguelike 8.3%
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 47.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.4%, Board Game 9.4%, Roguelike 6.7%, Tabletop 6.3%
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 29.7% ★, Board Game 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Deckbuilding 10.3%, Difficult 9.7%
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 49% ★, Roguelike 9.9%, Board Game 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%, Deckbuilding 6.6%
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 34.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Board Game 9.9%, Deckbuilding 9.3%, Roguelike 7.7%
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 35.9% ★, Board Game 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%, Deckbuilding 8.7%, Roguelike 8.4%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 49% ★, Board Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Tabletop 8.4%, Strategy 6.1%
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 52.5% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Roguelike 11%, Strategy 6.5%
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 44.6% ★, Board Game 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Tabletop 7.1%, Strategy 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 46.5% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Roguelite 8%, Roguelike 7.6%
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 46.2% ★, Deckbuilding 16.9%, Board Game 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 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 51.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Board Game 9.5%, Roguelite 9.2%, Roguelike 7.4%
Caîssa Board is a graphical chess user interface that is evolving toward becoming an online chess club.
Why similar: Chess 52.2% ★, Board Game 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, Tabletop 8.8%, Strategy 6.4%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 46.2% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Tabletop 8%, Turn-Based Combat 6.7%
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 37.9% ★, Board Game 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, Roguelike 9.8%, Deckbuilding 9.4%
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 54.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.2%, Board Game 14.4%, Tabletop 7.2%, Strategy 5%
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 32.9% ★, Board Game 12.3%, Deckbuilding 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Roguelike 7%
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Why similar: Chess 41.6% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Deckbuilding 10.5%, Roguelike 10%
Regimental Chess is a battle game where large armies of chess pieces move and capture in mass formations. Up to 372 pieces in a single battle.
Why similar: Chess 50.9% ★, Board Game 17.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Difficult 12.8%, Strategy 5.6%
The chess pieces you know, but with an addictive, puzzle game twist! Get the highest score possible while staying ready to capture the King. Featuring daily challenges, rogue-like elements, and more!
Why similar: Board Game 21.2%, Chess 20.4% ★, Roguelike 12.5%, Tabletop 11.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 56.1% ★, Board Game 14.6%, Turn-Based Combat 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.1%, Strategy 7.3%
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 57.9% ★, Board Game 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 13%, Strategy 7.6%, Logic 3.7%
An original puzzle game inspired by chess. Control a lonely Queen with shapeshifting abilities and defeat the enemy army. Move wisely, explore the wormholes on the board, take the enemy shape and kill them all.
Why similar: Chess 38.2% ★, Board Game 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Difficult 12.8%, Tabletop 7.7%
King's Hand is a turn-based, roguelike battler that fuses the strategy of chess with deckbuilding and a dash of chaos. Face increasingly challenging waves of tactical chess gameplay with a twist!
Why similar: Chess 59.7% ★, Deckbuilding 12%, Roguelike 11.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
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 50.2% ★, Board Game 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%, Strategy 5.8%, Magic 5.6%
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 56.3% ★, Board Game 18.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Top-Down 2.6%
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 55.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Roguelike 10.5%, Tabletop 7.2%, Strategy 5.2%
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 40.4% ★, Deckbuilding 14.6%, Board Game 11.6%, Roguelike 8.9%, Roguelite 8.3%
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 58.1% ★, Board Game 18.6%, Difficult 13.6%, Strategy 4.7%, Logic 3.5%
Study piece movements, checkmate conditions and tactics; learn Xiangqi inside out! Play against a wide variety of AI opponents, developing your Xiangi playing style.
Why similar: Chess 56.5% ★, Board Game 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Top-Down 2.4%
This project was inspired by Oats Jenkins' video on Youtube titled "I Made a BETTER Chess". In their video, they revised the pieces and rules. This project is that idea, turned into a video game!
Why similar: Chess 50.6% ★, Board Game 17%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Tabletop 10.1%, Strategy 4.6%
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. From the award-winning creators of Duskers & A Virus Named TOM.
Why similar: Chess 35.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Deckbuilding 11.6%, Tabletop 8.9%, Roguelike 8.7%
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 42.6% ★, Board Game 19.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Anime 8.8%, Turn-Based Combat 6.1%
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 57.8% ★, Board Game 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Tabletop 6.5%, Turn-Based Combat 5.2%
Chess Bomb is a unique puzzle game where bombs take the shape of chess pieces. Strategically use these explosive chess bombs to fend off waves of invading monsters threatening the chess kingdom.
Why similar: Chess 48.6% ★, Board Game 18.2%, Difficult 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Logic 5.2%
From piece movements, to drops, promotion and strategic formations, you'll learn Shogi inside out! Play against a wide variety of AI opponents, developing your Shogi playing style.
Why similar: Chess 55% ★, Board Game 18.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 8.9%, 2D 1.2%
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 51.9% ★, Board Game 27%, Tabletop 13.3%, Strategy 7.7%
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 61.2% ★, Board Game 20.5%, Tabletop 11.1%, Strategy 4.1%, Fantasy 3.1%
Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells. Make your units stronger by equipping weapons and armor and by upgrading stats as you level up. Become powerful enough to take down giant bosses!
Why similar: Chess 36.6% ★, Board Game 13.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Roguelike 9.4%, Tabletop 8.3%
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
Why similar: Chess 48.8% ★, Board Game 13.2%, Roguelike 11%, Roguelite 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.1%
It’s not chess...it’s better! COMBINE pieces as you play. New moves. New strategies. Create powerful hybrid pieces like the "Knook" by moving the Knight + Rook onto the same square. Then move as either piece. Face off with friends. Battle the AI. Beat the Grandmaster in the Deckbuilding Roguelike.
Why similar: Chess 45.1% ★, Difficult 11.8%, Roguelike 10.3%, Board Game 10.2%, Deckbuilding 9.5%
Cute Chess is all the fun of regular chess but with cute little characters, scene designs and music to make the game even more fun. Improve your chess skills by practising against computers with a range of different difficulties or take your skills online and compete against friends.
Why similar: Chess 59.5% ★, Board Game 17.1%, Tabletop 8.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Anime 4.3%
Think you know chess? Forget some of that. Rule House is a pawn chess adventure where every stage rewrites the game. Travel the globe and beyond, master an ever-changing board where new pieces, twisted variants, and cunning opponents keep you guessing from first move to last.
Why similar: Chess 53.3% ★, Board Game 18.6%, Surreal 6.9%, Strategy 6.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%
War of Chess is an online 1v1 chess game featuring animated character pieces, where players compete to climb ELO ranks, earn Gold, and level up
Why similar: Chess 36.6% ★, Board Game 26.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Fantasy 5.3%
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 46.6% ★, Board Game 17.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10%, Tabletop 7.5%
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 58.1% ★, Board Game 19.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Strategy 4.9%, Top-Down 2.3%
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 43.2% ★, Board Game 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 8.8%, Logic 5.5%
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 49.9% ★, Board Game 15.5%, Deckbuilding 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.1%, Strategy 5.5%
Gambonanza is a turn-based chess roguelike, set on a tiny board with higher stakes. Master tactical twists, invest your winnings and discover new rule-bending Gambits, tile and piece combinations. Face off against challenging bosses and get lost in all the ways you can break traditional chess!
Why similar: Chess 38.5% ★, Deckbuilding 15%, Board Game 13.2%, Difficult 9.4%, Roguelike 9.3%
Master Xiangqi anytime! Thrilling games, custom boards & challenging AI.
Why similar: Chess 56.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.7%, Board Game 15.8%, Strategy 5.7%, Logic 3.9%
Play classic chess against girls who tease, provoke, and challenge you.
Why similar: Chess 57% ★, Board Game 18.3%, Anime 6.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 6%, Strategy 5%
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 43.9% ★, Board Game 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Tabletop 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.3%
Chess game in 3D environment, where advanced artifical inteligence with 6 levels of strength can make you work hard for win.
Why similar: Chess 40.8% ★, Board Game 14.6%, Difficult 12.5%, Tabletop 10.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%
Dungeon Weiqi is a card roguelike strategy game. In this game, the player assume the role of a kingdom's lord. Through your journey, you'll collect cards, construct decks, progressively empower your capabilities, and confront escalating challenges."
Why similar: Deckbuilding 23.1%, Board Game 18.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Roguelike 13.7%, Roguelite 10.5%
rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Chess 16.7% ★, Deckbuilding 13%, Tabletop 12.1%, Roguelike 10.9%
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 30.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Roguelike 12.8%, Strategy 10%, Turn-Based Combat 9.9%
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 48.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.9%, Board Game 14.2%, Tabletop 7.2%, Logic 5.8%
A roguelike deck-building tactical game fused with chess. Choose a cursed Prince, collect pieces with magical abilities, and conquer three acts of boss encounters where the board itself fights against you.
Why similar: Board Game 24.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Tabletop 11.1%, Roguelike 10.3%, Strategy 9.9%
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 56.3% ★, Roguelike 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 11.2%, Strategy 6.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6%