Rookspell
Real chess. Rule-breaking spells. Capture a piece, draw a card, and turn the board in your favor.
$7.99
Games like Tactorius
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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.
Replayable, Competitive
$7.99Dunchess
Chess, but with spells, items and dungeons that fight back. Play online matches on boards full of vision crystals, teleports and fog, where every piece has abilities the original never had.
Replayable, Competitive
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Below 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.
Replayable
95% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The 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.
Replayable
81% of 479 Steam reviews are positive$4.99WizardChess
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
82% of 56 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
Competitive
74% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Chess 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, Competitive
91% of 809 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16FreeThe 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$9.99ChessCraft
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.
Replayable, Competitive
96% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Wequer
Chess has evolved! Hatch units from eggs, make ranged attacks, cast dastardly spells, and take control of the board to win in Wequer.
Replayable, Competitive
90% of 80 Steam reviews are positiveFreePetrified Pawns
Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells. Make your units stronger by equipping weapons and armor and by upgrading stats as you level up. Become powerful enough to take down giant bosses!
Replayable
88% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Passant: 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: 17$6.59
Cheaper than Tactorius
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…
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
ChessCraft
Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess AI sandbox. Create your own chess boards, rules, and pieces.
96% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Petrified Pawns
Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells.
88% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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: 17$6.59
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
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, Texas
A Wild West chess adventure where every duel is settled on the board.
81% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Side Effect
Side Effect combines a game of chess with a roguelike experience.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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$6.49
Hidden gems like Tactorius
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 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
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$6.59
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
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
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
Chess Evolved Online
Spend your army points on a lineup of pieces with their own moves and abilities, then test it against other players or AI in matches where nothing…
91% of 809 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16Free
SpellForce: Conquest of Eo
Inherit a wizard's tower, fill your grimoire with spells, and fly the whole thing across Eo in search of the Allfire.
80% of 2,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$29.99
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.
92% of 5,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$7.49
Dark Chess
THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war.
76% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Outwit opponents by moving pieces through the past, branching new boards, and guarding several kings at once.
96% of 8,150 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$11.99
Newest games like Tactorius
Checkmage!
A cozy adventure where magic is boring and wizard students play chess instead.
100% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$16.99
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
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$11.04
Immortal Chess
Play Classic chess expanded with 9 unique classes, Mana, spells, traps and passive abilities.
67% of 21 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Last Gambit
Build an impossible army: knights that become unicorns, queens that cross the edges, phoenixes that rise again.
79% of 34 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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…
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Chessman Adventures
Every move matters in this chess-inspired tactical adventure. Lead three heroes and outsmart the undead.
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
CHESST
A fantasy chess variant. An enchanted board where pawns hide magical secrets. Hatch dragons, transform enemy pieces into unicorns.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
Tabulo
Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike.
90% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99