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Top Chess Games

60+ chess games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Strategy, Board Game, Singleplayer, Indie.

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  1. #1 Dota Underlords
    98% matchVery Positive82% of 90,970 reviews2019
    Developer: Valve
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.0hMean: 53.0h≥1hr: 75%

    Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.

  2. #2 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,762 reviews2020
    Developer: Conor Petersen
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.7hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 62%

    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!

  3. #3 Fritz Chess 14
    95% matchMostly Positive71% of 122 reviews2014
    Developer: ChessBasePublisher: Viva Media
    Platforms: Windows

    FRITZ CHESS 14! The Ultimate Chess SoftwarePlay against FRITZ or play online at FRITZ CHESS 14 is the most comprehensive chess program in the world. Whether you are new to the game or a Grandmaster, FRITZ 14 is suitable for all skill levels!

  4. #4 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 6,970 reviews2022
    Developer: PUNKCAKE Delicieux
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.2hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 66%

    Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.

  5. #5 Battle Chess: Game of Kings™
    85% matchMixed52% of 372 reviews2015
    Developer: Olde SküülPublisher: Interplay Entertainment Corp.
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  6. #6 Chess 2: The Sequel
    85% matchMixed48% of 117 reviews2014
    Developer: Ludeme Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12mMean: 92.9h≥1hr: 15%

    The next step in the evolution of chess tuned for more viable options, strategic interest, and years and years of expert play.

  7. #7 King of the Bridge
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,644 reviews2024
    Developer: Finn Schuuring
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.5hMean: 2.3h≥1hr: 69%

    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!

  8. #8 Chess Ultra
    81% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,254 reviews2017
    Developer: Ripstone
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 7.2h≥1hr: 80%

    Introducing Chess Ultra; the most breathtaking chess game ever made. Experience stunning 4K visuals, seamless online multiplayer, Grandmaster approved AI and full VR compatibility.

  9. #9 Regimental Chess
    75% matchMixed55% of 330 reviews2015
    Developer: Regimental Chess Dev.Publisher: Regimental Chess Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.3hMean: 8.0h≥1hr: 95%

    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.

  10. #10 Chessformer
    73% matchVery Positive100% of 315 reviews2022
    Developer: Robert Alvarez
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  11. #11 Hyper Chess
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 325 reviews2025
    Developer: Grouch
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 24mMean: 1.7h≥1hr: 33%

    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!

  12. #12 Passant: A Chess Roguelike
    72% matchVery Positive80% of 338 reviews2025
    Developer: Marc Makes Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 84%

    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.

  13. #13 The Ouroboros King
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 536 reviews2023
    Developer: Oriol Cosp Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.0hMean: 6.2h≥1hr: 62%

    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.

  14. #14 Pawnbarian
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 868 reviews2021
    Developer: j4nw
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.3hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 89%

    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!

  15. #15 Chess Evolved Online
    70% matchVery Positive92% of 768 reviews2021
    Developer: TheGrandestine
    Platforms: Windows

    secretly the most overpowered game in existence

  16. #16 KNIGHTS
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 810 reviews2016
    Developer: Arzola's
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 3.9h≥1hr: 78%

    KNIGHTS is a minimalist puzzle game based on a single chess piece, the titular knight. A simple enough to pick up and relaxing experience.

  17. #17 Zen Chess: Mate in One
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 451 reviews2018
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.5hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 58%

    Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

  18. #18 Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition
    70% matchMixed67% of 81 reviews2020
    Developer: ChessBase GmbH
    Platforms: Windows

    At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.

  19. #19 Battle Chess
    68% matchVery Positive81% of 105 reviews2017
    Developer: Interplay Entertainment Corp.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    It took 2000 years for someone to make chess better!

  20. #20 Four Kings One War
    68% matchMixed54% of 192 reviews2021
    Developer: StaplesVR
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Four Kings One War is a 1 or 2 player strategy game inspired by chess. Each player controls two armies as though they were one and get's two moves per turn. This opens up guerrilla style tactics and hidden attacks. This is strategy for the modern mind, outside the 64th square.

  21. #21 Placement
    66% matchVery Positive86% of 72 reviews2017
    Developer: Albin Bernhardsson
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 42mMean: 2.6h≥1hr: 33%

    Placement is a minimalist logic puzzle game based on chess.

  22. #22 Unlock The King
    65% matchVery Positive95% of 395 reviews2019
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.

  23. #23 The Rookery
    63% matchVery Positive96% of 94 reviews2024
    Developer: Glyder Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    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!

  24. #24 Chesster
    65% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2016
    Developer: Team ChessterPublisher: Surprise Attack
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Chess meets match-three to create a deep and strategic new experience. Faced with a board full of chess pieces, you must create rows or columns of matching pieces to score points. Pieces move the same way as in chess and “take” the piece in their target destination, clearing it from the board.

  25. #25 Ajedrez una tarde de Otoño
    64% matchMixed52% of 58 reviews2021
    Developer: Luis Pedro Lopez Perez
    Platforms: Windows

    chess simulator game

  26. #26 Zen Chess: Mate in Two
    63% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2019
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Zen Chess: Mate in Two is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-two problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

  27. #27 Hang The Kings
    63% matchMostly Positive77% of 65 reviews2019
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Hang The Kings is a chess-inspired puzzle game. Capture all pieces of the same color before eliminating its King.

  28. #28 Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
    62% matchMostly Positive74% of 270 reviews2016
    Developer: Ripstone
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 7.3h≥1hr: 85%

    Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.

  29. #29 三国吕布传说(Legend of Lv Bu of the Three Kingdoms)
    61% matchMostly Positive76% of 72 reviews2020
    Developer: 炎黄工作室
    Platforms: Windows

    《吕布传说》是一款以三国为背景的策略战棋游戏。玩家将扮演三国第一猛将吕布,召集自己的队伍过关斩将,在意外发现了恶灵的秘密后,为了与恶灵展开最终决战开始收集六法器。

  30. #30 Chess Knight 2
    62% matchMixed47% of 150 reviews2016
    Developer: EnsenaSoft
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 97%

    A medieval world of strategy and tactics await you to engage in epic battles of wits as you master the moves and the strategies in a conquest to claim the kingdom of Chess.

  31. #31 Favor Chess
    61% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2019
    Developer: Javissoft
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Assemble your own unique chess army to use against your foes. Use new strategies and pieces to compete against players around the globe in a game of pure skill, where cleverness and adaptation are rewarded.

  32. #32 Zen Chess: Mate in Four
    61% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2019
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Zen Chess: Mate in Four is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-four problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

  33. #33 Fritz for Fun 13
    62% matchMixed64% of 39 reviews2014
    Developer: ChessbasePublisher: Viva Media
    Platforms: Windows

    TAKE YOUR CHESS GAME TO NEW LEVELS! Whether you're a beginner, club player or professional Grandmaster, FRITZ FOR FUN 13 has what you need!

  34. #34 Zen Chess: Mate in Three
    61% matchMostly Positive76% of 71 reviews2019
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Zen Chess: Mate in Three is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-three problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

  35. #35 Free Chess
    60% matchMostly Positive78% of 109 reviews2024
    Developer: GrimmGitz
    Platforms: Windows

    Free Chess is a free physics based chess simulator where you are free to play the game of chess with the freedom of however you like.

  36. #36 Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)
    61% matchMostly Positive75% of 127 reviews2018
    Developer: Pixel Wizards
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.3hMean: 6.3h≥1hr: 82%

    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

  37. #37 Egyptian Senet
    60% matchMostly Positive78% of 363 reviews2015
    Developer: Ezzat StudiosPublisher: EngagingX
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12mMean: 10.8h≥1hr: 24%

    The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Don't Miss The Opportunity To Play The World's Oldest Board Game From Ancient Egypt.

  38. #38 Checkmate Showdown
    59% matchVery Positive80% of 234 reviews2023
    Developer: BadRez GamesPublisher: ManaVoid Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 2.0h≥1hr: 49%

    Chess meets Fighting games. Crush your opponents in the arena and on the chessboard in this online multiplayer competitive tactical fighting game that mixes the strategic elegance of Chess with the fast-paced execution of fighting games.

  39. #39 Chess Brain
    59% matchVery Positive89% of 160 reviews2020
    Developer: Caio Flavio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!

  40. #40 Check vs Mate
    60% matchMixed66% of 122 reviews2012
    Developer: Targem GamesPublisher: Topware Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 36mMean: 42.4h≥1hr: 41%

    Commanders, assemble your armies! CHECK vs. MATE calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multimedia world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command!

  41. #41 Chessplosion
    59% matchVery Positive96% of 152 reviews2021
    Developer: C.T. Matthews
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.0hMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 68%

    Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents. Defeat enemies and bosses in Adventure Mode and the roguelike-inspired Dungeon Mode, break targets with limited bombs in Puzzle Mode, or fight friends and AI in Battle Mode.

  42. #42 Dark Chess
    59% matchMostly Positive80% of 201 reviews2023
    Developer: Tall Troll Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is a twist on chess with fog of war, a story-driven campaign, and plenty of challenges, traps, and puzzles. Fight your way through the campaign against legendary Kings and Queens of the past, who don't like to play by the rules!

  43. #43 Chess Survivors
    58% matchVery Positive85% of 158 reviews2023
    Developer: Aarimous
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 42mMean: 2.7h≥1hr: 40%

    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!

  44. #44 Knight Swap
    59% matchVery Positive88% of 149 reviews2019
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?

  45. #45 Let's Learn Shogi
    59% matchMostly Positive77% of 30 reviews2020
    Developer: Dr. Cyril Splutterworth
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  46. #46 Sudoku Zenkai / 数独全卡
    58% matchVery Positive90% of 212 reviews2018
    Developer: ImaginationOverflowPublisher: ImaginationOverflow
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.7hMean: 14.5h≥1hr: 90%

    Sudoku Zenkai is a game for everyone, from beginning to advanced players. It brings a new dimension to sudoku - you can solve puzzles with your friends, wherever they are! You can start a new puzzle with a friend or call one over to help when you get stuck.

  47. #47 BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons
    58% matchVery Positive90% of 126 reviews2020
    Developer: Deep Green GamesPublisher: Abyssal Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Nowadays everyone is a self-proclaimed chess player! Quite different from the soviet kids back in the old days. Maybe you are not so lazy and really want to improve your chess knowledge. Surprise me!

  48. #48 Knight's Retreat
    58% matchVery Positive91% of 99 reviews2020
    Developer: Minimol Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    A chess game without any chess. Rearrange your troops to bring your best knights back to your Kingdom in an abstract medieval world.

  49. #49 Chess Royal
    58% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2023
    Developer: Inlogic SoftwarePublisher: Silesia Games
    Platforms: Windows

    A simple yet satisfying game of chess that anyone can play - and learn from. Challenge a powerful chess AI, play against your friends, and try to get through a massive tower of puzzles!

  50. #50 Chess Infinity
    58% matchMixed60% of 70 reviews2024
    Developer: Rockwater GamesPublisher: Ripstone
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  51. #51 Chex
    58% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2023
    Developer: KonsolKongenPublisher: Stuen
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

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