Games like Side Effect

Miss the replayable and tense pull of Side Effect? These games line up well for what comes next.

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.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
81% of 479 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The 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: 1$9.99
Spellmasons
A turn-based tactical roguelike where spells bend each other into new ones. Chain a teleport into a trap, curse a crowd, clone yourself mid-combo. Play solo or with friends in online co-op, where the plans get bigger and the friendly fire gets personal. Clever combinations pay off in absurd, screen-clearing ways.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Tense, Colorful
91% of 1,141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$19.99
Below 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
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Rookspell
Real chess. Rule-breaking spells. Capture a piece, draw a card, and turn the board in your favor. Discover 66 spells, unlock new cards with gold earned in matches, and play solo, local hot-seat, or online through Steam.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Colorful
$7.99
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. Empower your army, adapt your strategy each run, and unravel the mystery behind a world trapped in an endless match.
Replayable
55% of 56 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.
Replayable, Colorful
76% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$6.49
Shattered Chess
Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
Replayable, Colorful
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. Combine abilities, upgrades, and relics to create game-breaking builds. Think fast, die, learn, repeat!
Replayable, Tense
83% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Passant: 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, Colorful
79% of 369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$6.59
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 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
82% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
SpellRogue
A dark fantasy roguelike where your mana comes from dice you bend to your will: reroll, split, duplicate and enchant them, then pour them into spells. Draft from 350+ spells, fight 75+ enemies that sabotage your dice, and chase the Voidbringers across a corrupted world. Every run plays differently.
Replayable
86% of 1,592 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$19.99

Cheaper than Side Effect

Yes, My Queen

The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.

$6.49

Chess Survivors

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

$4.99

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.

$6.59

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.

$7.49

Gamblers Chess

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

$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…

$2.99

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…

$1.99

Petrified Pawns

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

$5.99

Scholar of the Arcane Arts

Scholar of the Arcane Arts is a Roguelike Action RPG where every spell you cast interacts with one another.

$3.99

Rift Wizard

Rift Wizard is a hard turn-based roguelike about one thing: building a wizard and proving the build works.

$7.49

Waves of Chess

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

$2.99

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.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Side Effect

Magecraft: Spellbuilding

Craft spell cards, collect new effects, and build the perfect deck as you fight through rounds of turn-based combat.

Free

SpellRogue

Turn dice into mana, shape spells from a growing pool, and fight through a grim world where every run plays out differently.

$19.99

Witching Stone

Witching Stone is a puzzle game matched with a deckbuilder! Customise your spellbook and weave spells with coloured stones.

$13.99

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.

$6.59

Gambonanza

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

$14.99

Spellmasons

A turn-based tactical roguelike where spells bend each other into new ones. Chain a teleport into a trap, curse a crowd, clone yourself mid-combo.

$19.99

Magicraft

Slot spells into wands, watch them split and chain in wild ways, and battle corrupted gods across five chapters.

$11.99

Chess Survivors

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

$4.99

Rift Wizard

Rift Wizard is a hard turn-based roguelike about one thing: building a wizard and proving the build works.

$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…

$9.99

The Ouroboros King

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

$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.

$7.49

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