Games like Checkmate Kings
If Checkmate Kings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Twin Stick Heroes, Kill Ball and Goblins With Guns — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Checkmate Kings: Checkmate Kings is a high-paced chess-like multiplayer bullet hell 👑 Shoot at your opponent, summon chess pieces, dash around the arena and crush the enemy king! Choose from 8 characters with unique playstyles and conquer the Kings Gauntlet!
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Steam players who put hours into Checkmate Kings 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.
Twin Stick Heroes
WHY THIS
Top pick for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
Twin Stick Heroes is a top down arena fighting game for two to four players. Enjoy a wide variety of weaponry and characters, as you fight your friends across the galaxy! Using either local multiplayer or Steam's Remote Play Together.
Kill Ball
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Checkmate Kings.
Battle against your friends and loved ones in Kill Ball! Score a goal and get an explosive bullet to kill your opponent. The first player to reach three kills wins the game and all the glory.
Goblins With Guns
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
Goblins With Guns is a game where you fight in 4 player free for all battles as goblins who need to win in order to earn their freedom. There are several different maps, guns and perks that change the game and every battle is filled with bullet hell madness.
Trigger Fever
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
Engage in chaotic multiplayer battles in Trigger Fever, a top-down shooter party game. Crush foes solo or with friends, wielding 50+ unique weapons. Show off skills, tactically dominate, and embrace the crazy onslaught!
Warshmallows
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
Blink, and you’re hit. Warshmallows is a hilariously fast-paced multiplayer shooting game, where you battle over the championship as sweet but dangerous marshmallows at war!
Carpoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Checkmate Kings.
What happens when you fuse a harpoon gun to a tow truck? Twin-stick car harpooning arcade party action for 1-4 players! Harpoon and reel cars in, then tow them into the recycling crusher before time runs out while watching out for other hazards.
BreakBall
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
Shoot your friends with balls that bounce off walls in this fast-paced tactical arena fighter. Discover dozens of modifiers and millions of combinations, and beat your friends by being the fastest to adapt to the ever-changing rules!
TDS - War Games
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Checkmate Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Checkmate Kings.
TDS - War Games is a fast paced, local 2-4 player split-screen shooter where you and your friends competitively combat each other over the objective set. Customize your player loadout, choose an arena, setup a game-mode and start battling. Only the merciless will claim victory.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Checkmate Kings at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmate Kings.
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 ~50% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Kings.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
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 ~50% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmate Kings.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
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 ~50% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Checkmate Kings.
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 ~70% under Checkmate Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
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 Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
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 Checkmate Kings.
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 Checkmate Kings.
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 Checkmate Kings.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Checkmate Kings.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Checkmate Kings.
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 Checkmate Kings.
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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Frequently asked about Checkmate Kings
- How much does Checkmate Kings cost?
- Checkmate Kings is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Checkmate Kings have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Checkmate Kings supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Checkmate Kings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Checkmate Kings are Twin Stick Heroes, Kill Ball, Goblins With Guns.
- Who developed Checkmate Kings?
- Checkmate Kings was developed by Monka Studios.
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 Checkmate Kings.
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