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$6.49
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Yes, My Queen
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
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76% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$6.49Below the Crown
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.
Replayable, Retro
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99WizardChess
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, Colorful, Retro
82% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Once 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
54% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Chess, Texas
A Wild West chess adventure where every duel is settled on the board. Explore towns, solve themed puzzles, and defeat the Magnum Carlson to become a legend.
Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
81% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Chess 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.
Replayable, Colorful
91% of 809 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16FreeShotgun 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, Colorful, Retro
92% of 5,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$7.49Pawnbarian
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!
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Colorful
91% of 452 Steam reviews are positive$9.99King 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
95% of 1,700 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$2.99Check 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!
Colorful
66% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Chessaria: 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
74% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Chessarama
Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their goals and themes. Solve challenges, unlock collectibles, and compete against each other on the leaderboards. Welcome to Chessarama!
Cute, Colorful, Relaxing
90% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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Below the Crown
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess.
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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$14.99
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
Chess, Texas
A Wild West chess adventure where every duel is settled on the board.
81% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 5,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$7.49
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 452 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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 1,700 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$2.99
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
Gambonanza
Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window.
74% of 1,691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
Magic of Autumn
Magic of Autumn is a unique card puzzle game. Explore a magical island, turn the environment into cards, build decks to overcome card battles, and…
100% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$1
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 369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$6.59
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Magecraft: Spellbuilding
Craft spell cards, collect new effects, and build the perfect deck as you fight through rounds of turn-based combat.
98% of 154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
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 1,700 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$2.99
Witching Stone
Witching Stone is a puzzle game matched with a deckbuilder! Customise your spellbook and weave spells with coloured stones.
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Chess Ultimate
Draft a team of quirky characters, each with its own ability, and play matches that never repeat themselves.
87% of 310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13Free
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 369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$6.59
Gambonanza
Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window.
74% of 1,691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$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
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
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 452 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 479 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 809 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16Free
The Magister
The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those…
91% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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I Checkmate Thee
"I Checkmate Thee" is a turn-based puzzle game with limited vision, in the setting and genre of horror and chess.
83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
CharmEdge Deck
A laid-back casual roguelike-DBG game! As a genius mage-swordsman apprentice, build your magic deck, wield Enchantments and Skills, and teach that…
94% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
Chessman Adventures
Every move matters in this chess-inspired tactical adventure. Lead three heroes and outsmart the undead.
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
CHESST
A fantasy chess variant. An enchanted board where pawns hide magical secrets. Hatch dragons, transform enemy pieces into unicorns.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Gambonanza
Gambonanza takes chess, shrinks the board and throws the rulebook out the window.
74% of 1,691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
Magin: The Rat Project Stories
Magin is an exciting combination of a narrative-driven adventure game with a deck-building card battler.
69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Below the Crown
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess.
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Checkmate in the Wild West - Chess Adventure
Saddle up for a Wild West chess puzzle adventure! Will you become an outlaw or a deputy? Your choices matter.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Cross Blitz
Build a deck from over 500 cards, fight on a 4x4 grid, and follow a story campaign or a fresh randomized run whenever you feel like one more.
74% of 1,572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$5.74
Gamblers Chess
A game combining chess and card games with roguelike elements. You can move with the cards in your hand.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99