Games like Checkmate Rush

Miss the replayable and fast-paced pull of Checkmate Rush? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Cheaper than Checkmate Rush

Roguelike Chess

Roguelike Chess

Roguelike Chess is a turn-based strategy game inspired by chess, in which you control a piece and need to destroy the others, acquiring skills…

100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Waves of Chess

Waves of Chess

A roguelike chess game where players see how far one set of pieces will take them.

94% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Gamblers Chess

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
ChessRogue

ChessRogue

A chess themed roguelike featuring online high scores.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Gigachess

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
ChessWalkers

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
Chess Hunt

Chess Hunt

Chess Hunt is a rogue-like puzzle game. Use your cards to move your character and try to score as many points as possible by collecting matching…

100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Chaturanga

Chaturanga

The ultimate chess variant roguelike game. Start with pieces and the board set up for the ancient precursor to chess, Chaturanga.

75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Chess Army

Chess Army

Build your army, merge your units, and dominate the battlefield in a chess-inspired turn-based strategy game.

92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Chess Destroyer

Chess Destroyer

Do you love chess and want to play it with some new rules but the same moves? Then this game is for you!

76% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Morph King

Morph King

A single-player Chess variant where you go up against endless enemies while controlling a single piece.

89% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
ChessRPG

ChessRPG

ChessRPG is a revisited chess game in pixel art. Each player chooses a medieval fantasy people, gaining access to pieces with various…

$3.99

Hidden gems like Checkmate Rush

Chess Ultimate

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

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$11.99
Gambonanza

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

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

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

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

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
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

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
Once a Pawn a King

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
Rogue Mate

Rogue Mate

A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces gain unique abilities.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Rookery

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
Yes, My Queen

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

Newest games like Checkmate Rush

Zeitnot

Zeitnot

Chess you already know, rules you don't. Pieces have HP and gear. Shop between fights, stack gambits, roll the dice if you're feeling stupid.

100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$4.95
Checkmage!

Checkmage!

A cozy adventure where magic is boring and wizard students play chess instead.

100% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Chess Army

Chess Army

Build your army, merge your units, and dominate the battlefield in a chess-inspired turn-based strategy game.

92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
CHESS2

CHESS2

CHESS, BUT... NO TURNS, NO CHECK OR CHECKMATE, CAN'T MOVE THE SAME PIECE TWICE, 10×10 BOARD, 2 EXTRA KNIGHTS & PAWNS, PAWNS MOVE IN ANY DIRECTION

100% of 6 Steam reviews are positiveFree
RPG Chess

RPG Chess

A turn-based RPG, except it's also chess! Every capture becomes a 1v1 battle decided by stats, elements and abilities.

94% of 17 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.99
Prismarch

Prismarch

A colorful chess roguelike! Engage in dopaminergic, cinematic strategy as you fulfill a chess power fantasy - your pieces gain abilities, and…

100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
I Checkmate Thee

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
Chesspath Dungeon

Chesspath Dungeon

Take one more chest, or save a card for the exit? Guide a little king through a hand-drawn, turn-based dungeon.

83% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Last Gambit

Last Gambit

Build an impossible army: knights that become unicorns, queens that cross the edges, phoenixes that rise again.

81% of 37 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Final Legal Move

Final Legal Move

Survive a hostile chessboard where you are the only white piece.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Rogue Mate

Rogue Mate

A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces gain unique abilities.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Chessillo

Chessillo

The chess roguelike. Recruit magical pieces, break the rules of the board with sacrifices, portals, and curses, and survive three acts to bring down…

100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99