
A chess roguelike where pieces have HP, gear, and gambits. Build your army in the shop, fight damage-based trials, and push through bosses. Every move is tactics — and a gamble.
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A chess roguelike where pieces have HP, gear, and gambits. Build your army in the shop, fight damage-based trials, and push through bosses. Every move is tactics — and a gamble.

Gambition
A chess-inspired tactical roguelike where every battle becomes a puzzle of sacrifice and manipulation. Evolve chess pieces, build powerful armies, and turn clever sacrifices into devastating synergies.

Top Check: A Chess Card Game
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?
A chess-inspired tactical roguelike where every battle becomes a puzzle of sacrifice and manipulation. Evolve chess pieces, build powerful armies, and turn clever sacrifices into devastating synergies.
Why similar: Chess 33.7% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Deckbuilding 7.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 6%
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 34.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Deckbuilding 7.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.4%
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% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.2%, Deckbuilding 6%
Forget checkmate. Every capture scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder. Gather powerful floppy disks, rig your pieces (and theirs), and ignite cascading combos as you chase scores you have no right to reach.
Why similar: Chess 35.2% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 34.5% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Deckbuilding 7.5%, Roguelike 7.1%
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
Why similar: Chess 30.5% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 23.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Deckbuilding 7.1%
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 34.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Deckbuilding 8.3%, Roguelike 5.9%
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 32.7% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 25.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Deckbuilding 7.8%, Roguelike 5.7%
A DECK-BUILDING ROGUELIKE CHESS game. Choose chess set, build deck as you go, bring the enemy king’s HP to 0 in as few turns, solve dilemma cases. Each run has 7 randomly generated hell floors, themed around the 7 deadly sins.
Why similar: Chess 35.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 29% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.1%, Deckbuilding 7%
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 Deckbuilder 41.8% ★, Deckbuilding 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Roguelike 9.4%, Strategy 7.1%
A chess roguelike where every run bends the rules. Build your army, wield powerful kings, and survive deadly variants on your way to proving a human can still beat the machine. Shape your build, outlast the chaos, and choose when to command the board yourself.
Why similar: Chess 44.7% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 30.7% ★, Deckbuilding 13%, Strategy 6.8%, Turn-Based Combat 4.8%
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 54.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Roguelike 8.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.1%
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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 34.4% ★, Chess 15.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Deckbuilding 9.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
Gravity is your greatest weapon as you launch enemies into the air and spike them back down in this tactical roguelite with a unique perspective.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 34.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Deckbuilding 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, 2.5D 7.8%
A roguelike tactical auto battler where you build an army of chess pieces infused with stats and magical abilities. Craft your deck, manage your kingdom, master the combat system, and fight waves of enemies. Command your army manually or sit back and enjoy the fantasy auto battles!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 28.4% ★, Chess 22.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Deckbuilding 7.6%
Chess of doom is a chess-based roguelike where you're outnumbered at every turn. Harness the dungeon's power to battle enemy hordes, familiar and strange. Die, learn, master, conquer!
Why similar: Chess 54.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Roguelike 8.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.9%
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 12%, Deckbuilding 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Strategy 7.2%
The quickest way to capture the king? Steal the king's army and strike him with it. Set the board with cards, and shout 'checkmate' with the pieces you've taken!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 42.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.8%, Deckbuilding 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Roguelike 7.4%
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 55.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Roguelike 8%, Strategy 7.1%
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 56.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%, Strategy 4.9%
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 54.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Roguelike 6.1%, Strategy 6%
ATTENTION! HUSK PROTOCOL INITIATED! Prepare to engage in a challenging deck-driven mecha game. Synergise between powerful Husks, utilise a dynamic deck and avoid detection from the city’s mainframe as you infiltrate the machine-driven brutopolis of Aeterna.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 41.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Deckbuilding 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Turn-Based Combat 7.4%
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 37.6% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 18.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Roguelike 7.5%
A chess-based spell roguelite where strategy is created in the moment, not memorized. Equip 150+ spells, upgrade your pieces, and rewrite the rules. Grow a skill tree as you climb 7 towers of escalating enemies and bosses. Your mind is the armory.
Why similar: Chess 56.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Strategy 13.1%
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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Deckbuilding 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%
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 30.8% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 25.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Roguelike 8.3%
Roll Five is a thrilling dice-based roguelike. Explore a medieval fantasy map packed with deadly dangers, compose overpowered dice figures, and use your absurd luck to deal shocking damage to monsters until you free Fortuna.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 41.8% ★, Deckbuilding 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Roguelike 9.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.9%
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 34.8% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 26.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Deckbuilding 7.3%, Roguelike 5.6%
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 49.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Roguelike 9.5%, Strategy 6.8%
Slay your enemies, explore a wicked fantasy realm and unleash crazy combinations of items, artefacts and arcane spells! Break the time loop that grips the Wicked Lands in the ultimate fusion of turn-based tactics, deck-building, and rogue-lites!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 31.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Deckbuilding 10%, 2.5D 8%
The chess roguelike deckbuilder. Solo Chess is a cozy strategy game where you play chess-themed cards on a 3×3 grid, trigger piece effects, and earn points through clever combos. Build your deck with pets and food to conquer waves of unique battles.
Why similar: Chess 40.7% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 29.4% ★, Deckbuilding 8.4%, Roguelike 7%, Turn-Based Strategy 6%
Race to Ruler is a deck-building roguelike where your cards are your army as you embark on a journey to defeat the ruler of an empire. Draft and train new units, summon epic beings, defeat your rivals, and claim the crown.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 42.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Deckbuilding 13.3%, Strategy 4.8%
Botanical Warden is a tactical roguelike deckbuilder in which plants are used to fight strategic challenging turn-based combat. Evolve your plants with artificial selection and hybridization to create endless possibilities in your quest to defeat other tribes and conquer a barren island.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 47.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Roguelike 9.3%, Strategy 8%
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 37.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, 2.5D 8.8%, Deckbuilding 7.3%
Pickpocket rival flocks to build a deck. Steal abilities, stay hidden, survive. A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder about one bird's grim migration north through a wretched medieval kingdom.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 45.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Deckbuilding 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%, Strategy 6.7%
This is a new type of strategic roguelike where you fight by combining "dice x cards x tiles." You can create your own strategy by linking the "special effects" of the rolling dice with the "cards" that are activated according to the roll.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 45.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Deckbuilding 11.8%, Roguelike 9.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%
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 29.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Roguelike 9.6%
Meowbrick Dungeon combines the gameplay of Slay the Spire with the classic Falling-block puzzle game mechanics. Here, you will damage enemies and trigger various effects by clearing blocks. After defeating all the enemies in a room, gradually increasing your combat power.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 36.6% ★, Deckbuilding 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Roguelike 8.1%, Strategy 6.3%
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 59.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Tactical 5.2%
Build a chess army. Break the rules. Collect buffs that make your pieces addictively OP, with knights that roam the entire board, rooks that smash through anything. Use items like bombs or potions to cause even more chaos. No king to checkmate. Just enemies to destroy.
Why similar: Chess 42.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Deckbuilding 8.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7.4%
Crounds is a fast-paced PvP chess roguelike. Choose a powerful King, draft game-breaking upgrades, and bend the traditional rules of chess to destroy your opponent! Synergize your chaotic upgrades to create your winning strategy!
Why similar: Chess 48.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%, Deckbuilding 8%, Roguelike 6.9%
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 64.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Casual 0.7%
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Why similar: Chess 44.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Roguelike 8.1%, Deckbuilding 7.4%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 58.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Turn-Based Combat 3.7%
Turn-based strategy where chess-like battles evolve into full army command. Build your class fantasy, recruit troops, and enjoy thoughtful tactical runs.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.6%, Chess 18.5% ★, Deckbuilding 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Strategy 13.4%
Spin slots, win gold, and build a broken deck of items in this casual roguelike deck-builder. Become the champion, or die gambling... I mean, trying.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 59.3% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Deckbuilding 8.3%, Gambling 7.1% ★, Roguelike 6.4%
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 53.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Roguelike 6.7%, Strategy 4.8%
In this Free version of Master of Piece, build your deck of mercenaries, find powerful synergies between various traits and relics to fight against outlaws, fanatics, and cultists, and uncover the secrets of the Dragon Orb.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 43.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%, Strategy 6.8%, Roguelike 6.7%
Hecatomb is a mythic deckbuilding roguelike that tests how much you're willing to sacrifice. Every action produces Offerings, which can be relinquished to the Gods in exchange for powerful effects. But which Gods you worship and which you scorn have lasting effects on your journey to the Underworld.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 48.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 8.6%, 2.5D 8.4%, Roguelike 8%
Wordlike is a word roguelike—make words, tune your bag of letters, and collect power-ups to beat increasingly difficult levels. If you've played Balatro, it's like Balatro with words 🔠
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49.6% ★, Deckbuilding 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Roguelike 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Why similar: Chess 50.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8%, Roguelike 7.9%, Arcade 6.1%
A combination game between turn-based deck-building and poker rogue-like. Strengthen your stats by combining character cards with poker hands.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 33.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Deckbuilding 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Roguelike 10.5%
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 63.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Roguelike 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 1.8%
Lead a powerful companion to Save your adventuring party across shattered timelines in this roguelike deckbuilding tactics game. Fight alongside time-travelling Lumes, living companions who form your deck, build and protect them to defy the fate written by the Leviathan Crystals.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 40.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Deckbuilding 11%, Roguelike 7.5%
A chess arcade game where you play against the strongest chess engine in the world.
Why similar: Chess 76.8% ★, Arcade 10.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Tactical 3.2%
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 38.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Deckbuilding 12%, Roguelike 8.6%
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 56.6% ★, Roguelike 9.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Strategy 8.6%
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 44.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Roguelike 9.2%, Strategy 6.3%
A roguelike autobattling deckbuilder. Draft an army of… Succubi? Tax Accountants? Whales? It’s up to you! Discover thousands of possible synergies based on what fighters you choose. Fights are snappy and turn-based. Recruit your army and let them fight for you!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 35.7% ★, Deckbuilding 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Roguelike 7.8%