Dreadline Express
Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia set aboard the last human train.
98% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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Loved how dark and story-driven • Dread Chess ✣ can get? You might settle into these games easily.
King 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.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
95% of 1,700 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$2.99Dark Chess
THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
76% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$12.995D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Chess, but every piece can move through time and across parallel timelines. Send a rook into the past, branch a new universe, and defend kings that exist in several boards at once. It is confusing for an evening and unforgettable after that.
Also in Co-op · Surreal, Replayable
96% of 8,150 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$11.99Below 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.
Mysterious, Surreal, Replayable
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Chessaria: 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
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74% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Passant: 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 369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99Pawn of the Dead
Experience a dark twist on classic chess where your captured pieces are infected and rise to join the undead army! Adapt to asymmetrical battlefields, protect the White Kingdom, and lead King Leonard against his greatest, most sinister enemy yet: His own reflection.
Dark, Story-driven, Surreal
93% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$6.99The 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 · Surreal, Replayable
81% of 479 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Chessarama
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!
90% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$14.99ChessCraft
Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess AI sandbox. Create your own chess boards, rules, and pieces. Play against the computer or your friends online, or win loot by playing one of 80 built-in chess boards in adventure mode.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
96% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Once 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.
Dark, Mysterious, Surreal
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$12.99
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Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
You die, you return, you plan better. A short, strict puzzle RPG where you play a reincarnating dark lord with limited time per chapter, spending…
91% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
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.
87% of 483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$6.99
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
Chess for idiots
Move any piece in any absurd way, capture as much as you want, and let a lower IQ carry you to victory.
93% of 1,591 Steam reviews are positiveFree
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 197 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 369 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 1,691 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
The Chess
The ChessThemed Chess offers a relaxing, minimalist chess experience with multiple boards, piece sets, AI opponents, and multiplayer.
77% of 119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Foretales
Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game.
86% of 795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
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
Newest games like • Dread Chess ✣
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
Dreadline Express
Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia set aboard the last human train.
98% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
87% of 483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$6.99
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
Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
You die, you return, you plan better. A short, strict puzzle RPG where you play a reincarnating dark lord with limited time per chapter, spending…
91% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
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
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
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
Master of Chess
Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide.
83% of 296 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$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 369 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