The Ouroboros King
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes.
81% of 480 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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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.
Replayable, Retro, Surreal
81% of 480 Steam reviews are positive$4.99The Rookery
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!
Replayable
94% of 78 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99Once a Pawn a King
Chess is broken. Gather the Black Army, build a party of chess pieces, and battle through fractured boards in this asymmetric turn-based roguelike. Empower your army, adapt your strategy each run, and unravel the mystery behind a world trapped in an endless match.
Replayable, Surreal, Mysterious
54% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Yes, My Queen
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
Replayable
76% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Pawnbarian
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!
Replayable, Minimalist
91% of 453 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Shotgun 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.
Replayable, Retro, Surreal
92% of 5,980 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 71$9.99Passant: A Chess Roguelike
A chess roguelike where the rules bend as far as you push them. Earn strange pieces, twist the rules with badges and grab items that freeze a bishop or promote your pawn straight to queen. Beat round after round, take down the final boss and become a grandmaster. You do not need to be good at chess to have a great time.
Replayable
79% of 371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99WizardChess
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!
Replayable, Retro, Surreal
82% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$7.49Gambonanza
Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window. Capture every piece, not just the king, with 150+ gambits that bend the rules, tiles you can upgrade mid-run and a reserve of pieces waiting off-board. Silly, chaotic and tough, and every run plays out differently.
Replayable, Retro, Surreal
74% of 1,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99Chess Survivors
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!
Replayable, Retro, Surreal
83% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Shattered Chess
Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
Replayable, Retro
100% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$7.99King of the Bridge
A troll blocks your bridge and only a win at his homebrew chess gets you across. Advanced Troll Chess hides over twenty rule changes in a dusty rulebook, and the troll cheats, taunts and rewrites the game as you play. Catch him at it, bend the rules yourself, and find every ending.
Replayable, Retro, Surreal
95% of 1,702 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
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The Rookery
An exciting and fast-paced chess roguelite, full of ridiculous abilities!
94% of 78 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Once a Pawn a King
Chess is broken. Gather the Black Army, build a party of chess pieces, and battle through fractured boards in this asymmetric turn-based roguelike.
54% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Yes, My Queen
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
76% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Pawnbarian
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full…
91% of 453 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Swap your whole army for a royal shotgun and blast through enemy ranks one turn at a time, in short runs that beg for one more go.
92% of 5,980 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 71$9.99
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.
79% of 371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99
Shattered Chess
Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
100% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Chess Survivors
Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies.
83% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
King of the Bridge
Learn a chess variant that keeps changing on you, catch the troll bending the rules, and bend them right back on your way to every ending.
95% of 1,702 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Gigachess
Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!
82% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Dunchess
Chess, but with spells, items and dungeons that fight back. Play online matches on boards full of vision crystals, teleports and fog, where every…
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like Below the Crown
King of the Bridge
Learn a chess variant that keeps changing on you, catch the troll bending the rules, and bend them right back on your way to every ending.
95% of 1,702 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Let's! Revolution!
Let’s! Revolution! is a colorful roguelite puzzle mashup about stopping a narcissistic King from ruining your world.
92% of 319 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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.
79% of 371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99
Gambonanza
Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window.
74% of 1,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99
Chessarama
Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their…
90% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Desktop Dungeons
Clear a dungeon one careful step at a time, spending health like a resource and turning each short run into a solvable, often fatal, little problem.
88% of 1,136 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$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.
83% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Chessplosion
Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents.
95% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Pawnbarian
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full…
91% of 453 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Ouroboros King
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes.
81% of 480 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Chess Evolved Online
Spend your army points on a lineup of pieces with their own moves and abilities, then test it against other players or AI in matches where nothing…
91% of 810 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12Free
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Swap your whole army for a royal shotgun and blast through enemy ranks one turn at a time, in short runs that beg for one more go.
92% of 5,980 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 71$9.99
Newest games like Below the Crown
Checkmage!
A cozy adventure where magic is boring and wizard students play chess instead.
100% of 61 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
Dunchess
Chess, but with spells, items and dungeons that fight back. Play online matches on boards full of vision crystals, teleports and fog, where every…
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Shattered Chess
Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
100% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Gambonanza
Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window.
74% of 1,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99
ChessWalkers
In this short yet memorable puzzle game You will take on the role of a chess pawn with unique abilities!
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Tabulo
Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike.
90% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Yes, My Queen
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
76% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
79% of 371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99
Chess, Texas
A Wild West chess adventure where every duel is settled on the board.
81% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Petrified Pawns
Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells.
88% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
WizardChess
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…
82% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
ChessRogue
A chess themed roguelike featuring online high scores.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99