Games like Dark Chess
If Dark Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are 3D Chess Online, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel and Chess Remix - Chess variants — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and mysterious. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dark Chess: THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.
Players who liked Dark Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Chess also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
3D Chess Online
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Chess.
Second-strongest match for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
Chess Remix - Chess variants
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
Experience the thrill of playing Chess like never before with Chess Remix. Try out different versions of Chess from around the world, historic board games, modern variations or even create your own original games
Triple Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
Triple Chess reimagines classic chess with three stacked boards and vertical movement, creating deeper strategy, new tactics, and thrilling multi-level battles.
CHESS with LASERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
Obliterate the enemy's king with your laser by strategically moving/rotating mirrors, portals and more in this mind-bending chess-like game. Challenge your friends or battle an AI (includes Level Editor)!
Chess: The Lost Pieces
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Glow Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
Immortal classic - a game that has been for many thousands of years - Chess - comes back in a new form, now with neon lights!
Lazy Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
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Mana Chess
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Chess cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dark Chess.
Mana Chess is a colorful, turn-based adventure with Roguelite progression. Early Access players traverse three unique areas, and ten stages - collecting randomly offered abilities and items. Manage your resources efficiently to clear stages in as few turns as possible, and earn rewards.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Chess.
Reviewers of Dark Chess cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
ChessCraft
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dark Chess.
Reviewers of Dark Chess cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dark Chess.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Chess at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dark Chess.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Chess.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Dark Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dark Chess.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Chess.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Dark Chess
- Does Dark Chess run on Steam Deck?
- Dark Chess is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dark Chess cost?
- Dark Chess is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dark Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dark Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Dark Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Chess are 3D Chess Online, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, Chess Remix - Chess variants.
- Who developed Dark Chess?
- Dark Chess was developed by Tall Troll Games and published by Tall Troll Games, Hawthorn Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Dark Chess.
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