Games like Chessplosion
If Chessplosion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rocket!, Blazing Beaks and Son of a Witch — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and intense. 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 Chessplosion: Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents. Defeat enemies and bosses in Adventure Mode and the roguelike-inspired Dungeon Mode, break targets with limited bombs in Puzzle Mode, or fight friends and AI in Battle Mode.
Players who liked Chessplosion also play
Steam players who put hours into Chessplosion 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.
Rocket!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Destroy enemy ships, blast away asteroids and unlock new weapons / ship abilities in this endless arcade roguelite. Earn resources through each of the 7 game modes to upgrade your weapons to outlast them all.
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chessplosion.
Second-strongest match for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Chessplosion.
Third-strongest match for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Chessplosion.
Ranked #4 for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chessplosion.
Ranked #5 for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Nautical Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Chessplosion.
Ranked #6 for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Captain an armed sea vessel to fight off hordes of oceanic terrors! Navigate between outposts to upgrade your boat, equip powerful weapons, manage your economy and hire crew members to your aid in this unique take on the survivors-like formula.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Over 9000 Zombies!
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Chessplosion.
Ranked #8 for Chessplosion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Over 9000 Zombies! is top-down arcade action blown out of all reasonable proportions. An endless horde of zombies is coming your way, how long can you survive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chessplosion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chessplosion.
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
Shares a challenging mood with Chessplosion.
Priced ~58% under Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chessplosion.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chessplosion.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chessplosion.
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 Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chessplosion.
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 Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chessplosion.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Chessplosion on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chessplosion.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Chessplosion.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chessplosion.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chessplosion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Chessplosion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Chessplosion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chessplosion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Chessplosion.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Frequently asked about Chessplosion
- How much does Chessplosion cost?
- Chessplosion is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Chessplosion have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chessplosion supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Chessplosion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chessplosion are Rocket!, Blazing Beaks, Son of a Witch.
- Who developed Chessplosion?
- Chessplosion was developed by C.T. Matthews.
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