Games like Wulin Chess
If Wulin Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Survival, Overfall and Iratus: Lord of the Dead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chess like tactical depth, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Wulin Chess: Wulin Chess is a turn-based strategy game set in a captivating dark fantasy world. Employ diverse characters across various boards/battlefields, and devise strategic thinking for victory. Strengthen your heroes by collecting equipment and enhancing attributes to face the challenges that lie ahead.
Players who liked Wulin Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Wulin 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.
Dungeon Survival
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wulin Chess.
A side-scrolling, turn-based character development game, where you play as a lord leading your heroes to brave the depths of dungeons.
Overfall
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Wulin Chess.
Second-strongest match for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin Chess.
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Wulin Chess.
Third-strongest match for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin Chess.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wulin Chess.
Ranked #4 for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin Chess.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Rogue Lords
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and a challenging mood with Wulin Chess.
Ranked #5 for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wulin Chess.
A dark fantasy roguelike where you play as the Devil! Lead famous evil geniuses through events and turn-based fights to spread terror and corruption. Create synergies between your disciples, use your evil powers and take revenge on those miserable Demon Hunters.
Pathway
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Wulin Chess.
Ranked #6 for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin Chess.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Inkbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wulin Chess.
Ranked #7 for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin Chess.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Crown Trick
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wulin Chess.
Ranked #8 for Wulin Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin Chess.
Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wulin Chess at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wulin 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 ~58% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Wulin 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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin 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 ~58% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wulin 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 ~58% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wulin Chess.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wulin 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 ~58% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wulin 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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Wulin Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wulin Chess.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wulin Chess.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wulin Chess.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Wulin Chess.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Wulin Chess.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wulin Chess.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wulin Chess.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Wulin Chess.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wulin Chess.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Wulin Chess
- How much does Wulin Chess cost?
- Wulin Chess is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wulin Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wulin Chess are Dungeon Survival, Overfall, Iratus: Lord of the Dead.
- Who developed Wulin Chess?
- Wulin Chess was developed by LameCat Studio and published by East2west 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 Wulin Chess.
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