Games like Zeitnot

Chasing that replayable and retro feeling you got from Zeitnot? Browse these games for your next favorite.

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 480 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Petrified Pawns
Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells. 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$5.99
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 1,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99
Gamblers Chess
A game combining chess and card games with roguelike elements. You can move with the cards in your hand. With only a joker piece as start, you can build up a powerful army. With Upgrade Cards changing how you play, and Curses that help the enemy, every run feels different.
Replayable, Retro
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Chess: The Lost Pieces
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable
70% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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: 2$9.99
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, Retro, Tense
83% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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, Tense
92% of 5,976 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$7.49
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
54% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Last Gambit
Build an impossible army: knights that become unicorns, queens that cross the edges, phoenixes that rise again. Lead it through a roguelite Story of bosses, merchants and perks that bend the rules, then put it to the test online.
Replayable
83% of 48 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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 371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99
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 55 Steam reviews are positive$12.99

Cheaper than Zeitnot

Gamblers Chess

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

$3.99

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

Chessillo

The chess roguelike. Recruit magical pieces, break the rules of the board with sacrifices, portals, and curses, and survive three acts to bring down…

$2.99

Chesstics

Chess moves, real battles: every unit has health, attack and armour, and a blow deals damage instead of taking a piece.

$2.99

Chess Hunt

Chess Hunt is a rogue-like puzzle game. Use your cards to move your character and try to score as many points as possible by collecting matching…

$2.99

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

Chesscent

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

$2.99

Hyper Chess

There are NO TURNS in this wild version of Chess! Pieces move across the board in real-time, so you'll need to think fast to protect your King!

$2.99

Waves of Chess

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

$2.99

Chesspath Dungeon

Take one more chest, or save a card for the exit? Guide a little king through a hand-drawn, turn-based dungeon.

$3.99

Xiangqi Traveler

Chinese chess with superpowers. Roll dice across four seasons, collect 36 Stratagems that burn, freeze and turn enemy pieces, chain them into…

$4.99

ChessRogue

A chess themed roguelike featuring online high scores.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Zeitnot

Hyper Chess

There are NO TURNS in this wild version of Chess! Pieces move across the board in real-time, so you'll need to think fast to protect your King!

$2.99

Master of Piece

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

$14.99

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.

$11.99

Gambonanza

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

$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.

$4.99

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.

$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…

Free

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

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

Gamblers Chess

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

$3.99

Chess: The Lost Pieces

A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,

$7.99

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