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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Dota Underlords
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.

5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
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!
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- #1 Dota Underlords98% matchVery Positive82% of 90,970 reviews2019Developer: ValvePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,762 reviews2020Developer: Conor PetersenPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Fritz Chess 1495% matchMostly Positive71% of 122 reviews2014Developer: ChessBasePublisher: Viva MediaPlatforms: 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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate94% matchVery Positive91% of 6,970 reviews2022Developer: PUNKCAKE DelicieuxPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Battle Chess: Game of Kings™85% matchMixed52% of 372 reviews2015Developer: 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 Chess 2: The Sequel85% matchMixed48% of 117 reviews2014Developer: Ludeme GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 King of the Bridge80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,644 reviews2024Developer: Finn SchuuringPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Chess Ultra81% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,254 reviews2017Developer: RipstonePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Regimental Chess75% matchMixed55% of 330 reviews2015Developer: Regimental Chess Dev.Publisher: Regimental Chess Inc.Platforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Chessformer73% matchVery Positive100% of 315 reviews2022Developer: Robert AlvarezPlatforms: 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 Hyper Chess72% matchVery Positive92% of 325 reviews2025Developer: GrouchPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Passant: A Chess Roguelike72% matchVery Positive80% of 338 reviews2025Developer: Marc Makes GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 The Ouroboros King71% matchVery Positive81% of 536 reviews2023Developer: Oriol Cosp GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Pawnbarian70% matchVery Positive90% of 868 reviews2021Developer: j4nwPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Chess Evolved Online70% matchVery Positive92% of 768 reviews2021Developer: TheGrandestinePlatforms: Windows
secretly the most overpowered game in existence
- #16 KNIGHTS69% matchVery Positive94% of 810 reviews2016Developer: Arzola'sPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Zen Chess: Mate in One69% matchVery Positive88% of 451 reviews2018Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition70% matchMixed67% of 81 reviews2020Developer: ChessBase GmbHPlatforms: 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 Battle Chess68% matchVery Positive81% of 105 reviews2017Developer: Interplay Entertainment Corp.Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
It took 2000 years for someone to make chess better!
- #20 Four Kings One War68% matchMixed54% of 192 reviews2021Developer: StaplesVRPlatforms: 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 Placement66% matchVery Positive86% of 72 reviews2017Developer: Albin BernhardssonPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 42mMean: 2.6h≥1hr: 33%
Placement is a minimalist logic puzzle game based on chess.
- #22 Unlock The King65% matchVery Positive95% of 395 reviews2019Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
- #23 The Rookery63% matchVery Positive96% of 94 reviews2024Developer: Glyder GamesPlatforms: 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 Chesster65% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2016Developer: Team ChessterPublisher: Surprise AttackPlatforms: 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 Ajedrez una tarde de Otoño64% matchMixed52% of 58 reviews2021Developer: Luis Pedro Lopez PerezPlatforms: Windows
chess simulator game
- #26 Zen Chess: Mate in Two63% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2019Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: 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 Hang The Kings63% matchMostly Positive77% of 65 reviews2019Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac
Hang The Kings is a chess-inspired puzzle game. Capture all pieces of the same color before eliminating its King.
- #28 Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition62% matchMostly Positive74% of 270 reviews2016Developer: RipstonePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 三国吕布传说(Legend of Lv Bu of the Three Kingdoms)61% matchMostly Positive76% of 72 reviews2020Developer: 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 Chess Knight 262% matchMixed47% of 150 reviews2016Developer: EnsenaSoftPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Favor Chess61% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2019Developer: JavissoftPlatforms: 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 Zen Chess: Mate in Four61% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2019Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: 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 Fritz for Fun 1362% matchMixed64% of 39 reviews2014Developer: ChessbasePublisher: Viva MediaPlatforms: 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 Zen Chess: Mate in Three61% matchMostly Positive76% of 71 reviews2019Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: 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 Free Chess60% matchMostly Positive78% of 109 reviews2024Developer: GrimmGitzPlatforms: 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 Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)61% matchMostly Positive75% of 127 reviews2018Developer: Pixel WizardsPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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 Egyptian Senet60% matchMostly Positive78% of 363 reviews2015Developer: Ezzat StudiosPublisher: EngagingXPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Checkmate Showdown59% matchVery Positive80% of 234 reviews2023Developer: BadRez GamesPublisher: ManaVoid EntertainmentPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Chess Brain59% matchVery Positive89% of 160 reviews2020Developer: Caio FlavioPlatforms: 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 Check vs Mate60% matchMixed66% of 122 reviews2012Developer: Targem GamesPublisher: Topware InteractivePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Chessplosion59% matchVery Positive96% of 152 reviews2021Developer: C.T. MatthewsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Dark Chess59% matchMostly Positive80% of 201 reviews2023Developer: Tall Troll GamesPlatforms: 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 Chess Survivors58% matchVery Positive85% of 158 reviews2023Developer: AarimousPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Knight Swap59% matchVery Positive88% of 149 reviews2019Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: 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 Let's Learn Shogi59% matchMostly Positive77% of 30 reviews2020Developer: Dr. Cyril SplutterworthPlatforms: 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 Sudoku Zenkai / 数独全卡58% matchVery Positive90% of 212 reviews2018Developer: ImaginationOverflowPublisher: ImaginationOverflowPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons58% matchVery Positive90% of 126 reviews2020Developer: Deep Green GamesPublisher: Abyssal StudiosPlatforms: 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 Knight's Retreat58% matchVery Positive91% of 99 reviews2020Developer: Minimol GamesPlatforms: 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 Chess Royal58% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2023Developer: Inlogic SoftwarePublisher: Silesia GamesPlatforms: 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 Chess Infinity58% matchMixed60% of 70 reviews2024Developer: Rockwater GamesPublisher: RipstonePlatforms: 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 Chex58% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2023Developer: KonsolKongenPublisher: StuenPlatforms: 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.
