
The Ouroboros King
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes.
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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, Chaotic
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
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
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
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, Colorful
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
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
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
Replayable, Colorful
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, Colorful
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
Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.
Replayable, Retro
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

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

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

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.

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

A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces gain unique abilities.

Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells.

An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.


Check and Slash combines the action and combat of a hack and slash game with the movement patterns of chess pieces.

The Board is Yours is a strategic chess-based incremental game: buy squares, unlock upgrades, and chain synergies through defended pieces.

A game combining chess and card games with roguelike elements. You can move with the cards in your hand.

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

Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies.

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.

Roll dice across the battlefield, fuse matching pairs and watch one throw snowball into a wave-clearing combo.

Plan, Aim, Shoot! FLICK SHOT ROGUES blends the tactile satisfaction of flicking stuff across a table with the strategic depth of your favourite…

Position your attacks on a tiny battlefield, build a deck of deadly combos and outthink every enemy standing between you and the Shogun.

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

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

Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their…

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

Build your dragon's deck, flip the battlefield with fire, ice, poison and void, and turn back every hero who comes for your hoard.

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

Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full…

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

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

Chesscent is a pixel art turn-based strategy roguelite that blends classic chess with rule-breaking cards.

Stackflow is a hypnotically addictive strategic roguelike about the pure pleasure of fitting pieces perfectly.

A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces gain unique abilities.

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

The Board is Yours is a strategic chess-based incremental game: buy squares, unlock upgrades, and chain synergies through defended pieces.

Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess.

Discover hidden patterns. Build spectacular chains packed with combos. Collect powerful Amulets.

FLAGOTRON is a unique flagbuilder roguelike. No cards—just flags and strategy.

Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies.

Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike.