Games like Archon Classic

Loved how retro and competitive Archon Classic can get? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)
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
Also in Co-op · Competitive
74% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Battle Chess: Game of Kings™
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.
Competitive
52% of 363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
Check vs Mate
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!
Competitive, Colorful
66% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Archons
Archons is a Roguelite/Survivor game where you control two characters, the Archons- simultaneously! Customize your build and abilities to fit your own unique playstyle and blast your way through enemy parasites and bosses!
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Colorful
92% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
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.
Also in Co-op · Retro, Replayable
81% of 480 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Chess Evolved Online
Chess, rebuilt as a collectible army builder. Pick from 500+ pieces with their own moves and abilities, spend your army points on a lineup only you would build, then battle other players or AI in matches with zero randomness. Easy to start, deep enough to think about for years.
Competitive, Replayable, Colorful
91% of 810 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16Free
Chess Ultra
Chess is the same game everywhere, so this one wins on atmosphere: hand-crafted sets and rooms, a Grandmaster-approved AI across ten levels, puzzles, historic matches and full VR support. Play a slow evening game in a firelit library, or chase a checkmate in a bleak ruin. A chess board that finally looks like it deserves the game.
Competitive, Replayable
76% of 1,844 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$12.99
FPS Chess
Chess, but every capture turns into a first-person duel. Move your pieces, plan your openings, then fight for the square with guns, swords and sniper rooks. A fast 1v1 shooter where the board decides who fights, and your aim decides who wins.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Colorful
84% of 44,878 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 280Free
Nox Archaist
An 8-bit RPG modeled after the iconic games of the 1980s. You control a party of adventurers who travel the Realm, talk to NPCs in towns and castles, explore dungeons, and fight monsters as you seek to save the world from a terrible danger.
Retro, Replayable
85% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
Four campaigns, battlefield tactics that actually matter, a thundering metal soundtrack, and spoils of war to spend on your soldiers.
Retro, Competitive, Replayable
91% of 1,051 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Chaos Reborn
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Colorful
74% of 820 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Chess, but your whole army defected and all you have left is a royal shotgun. Move or shoot each turn, blast a path through the white pieces, and pick upgrades for both sides as the board grows meaner. A short, sharp strategy roguelike where every run takes about twenty minutes and every loss feels earned.
Retro, Replayable, Colorful
92% of 5,976 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$9.99

Cheaper than Archon Classic

The Ouroboros King

The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes.

$4.99

Ragnarok Chess

The classical game of chess... now played in the beautiful Viking lands!

$1.99

Chess Knight 2

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…

$2.99

Clan of Champions

Clan of Champions is a game that you can play with or against friends online. Each match will last around ten minutes.

$1.99

Battle Time

Take a role of a true general of a real army. Join the battle, capture enemies’ castles and raise the power of your army.

$0.99

Hyper Chess

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!

$2.99

Cat Chess

Classic chess played by two rival cat clans, with full rules, move hints, a scalable bot, online and local matches, and a challenge campaign.

$6.99

Fortix

Can you reclaim your ancestors’ land? Evil forces have taken over the once fertile land of Fortiana.

$0.99

Lords of Magic: Special Edition

Chase the sorcerer who burned Urak across a turn-based world map, then fight his armies in real time when your paths cross.

$4.99

Chess Survivors

Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies.

$4.99

BattleLore: Command

BattleLore: Command is based on the board game BattleLore Second Edition from Fantasy Flight Games.

$6.99

Gigachess

Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!

$3.99

Hidden gems like Archon Classic

Cat Chess

Classic chess played by two rival cat clans, with full rules, move hints, a scalable bot, online and local matches, and a challenge campaign.

$6.99

Warhammer: Dark Omen (Classic)

Enter the Warhammer Fantasy world in Warhammer: Dark Omen, a classic real-time strategy game known for its tactical battles, atmospheric campaign…

$9.99

Hyper Chess

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!

$2.99

Arco

Fight through a pixel-art tale of revenge where every turn is decided by timing, terrain and the choices you make.

$19.99

Archons

Archons is a Roguelite/Survivor game where you control two characters, the Archons- simultaneously!

$9.99

FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles

Command a party through a grim tale of betrayal and loyalty, where every turn on the battlefield shapes the kingdom's fate.

$49.99

Passant: A Chess Roguelike

Build strange piece combos, twist the rules with badges and push through round after round until you face the final boss.

$11.99

Gambonanza

Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window.

$14.99

Chess Survivors

Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies.

$4.99

Chessplosion

Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents.

$11.99

Checkmate Showdown

Chess meets Fighting games. Crush your opponents in the arena and on the chessboard in this online multiplayer competitive tactical fighting game…

$19.99

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition

A puzzle-strategy hybrid where matching units is how you fight.

$8.99

Newest games like Archon Classic

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