Games like Tabulo

Hooked on the replayable and retro side of Tabulo? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Gambonanza
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
74% of 1,691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
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
Shattered Chess
Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
Replayable, Retro
100% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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.
Replayable, Retro
81% of 479 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Shotgun 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, Retro
92% of 5,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 74$7.49
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
79% of 369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$6.59
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 of cunning monsters!
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable
91% of 452 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Yes, My Queen
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable
76% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$6.49
Balatro
Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder about beating bigger and bigger score targets with illegal poker hands. You add Jokers, level up hands and bend a normal 52-card deck until a lowly pair pays like a royal flush, chasing one more blind.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Retro
97% of 162,769 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,311$14.99
Chess 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
91% of 809 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16Free
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, Retro
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
Replayable, Retro
95% of 1,700 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$2.99

Cheaper than Tabulo

Shattered Chess

Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.

$7.99

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

Yes, My Queen

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

$6.49

Gamblers Chess

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

$3.99

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

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

Plinbo: Roguelike Plinko

UPGRADE YOUR BALLS! Roguelike meets Plinko! Every choice is a strategy; every run is a unique challenge.

$6.99

Chess: The Lost Pieces

A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,

$7.99

The Board is Yours

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

$2.50

Gigachess

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

$3.99

FLAG-O-TRON

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

$7.99

Hidden gems like Tabulo

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't

Start with a simple word grid, then stuff it with wildcards, chess pieces and fractions as each run drifts further from spelling and closer to…

$14.99

Cubic Cosmos

A fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder mixed with tower defense, where you grow an army of pawns across a run until combos spiral out of control.

$12.99

BoardLand

BoardLand is a turn-based strategy board game where you use the numbers rolled by dice to grow your own board and battle monsters.

Free

Bingle Bingle

"Bingle Bingle" is a "roulette-building" game where you create your own roulette wheel and build strategies around it.

$14.99

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

Beyond Words

From the creators of GoldenEye & TimeSplitters comes Beyond Words the genre-defining fusion of roguelike strategy and word-crafting.

$14.99

Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy.

$29.99

Ballionaire

Place triggers on a pachinko board, drop the ball, and let the physics turn your setup into absurd riches.

$12.34

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

Chessarama

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

$14.99

Dicealot

Discover a high-stakes roguelike dice-builder where every roll is a risk, every risk is a thrill, and every thrill teeters between triumph and…

$7.49

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