Games like Checkmate Showdown
If Checkmate Showdown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Kingdom, Raging Fists: Retribution and RPG Chess — 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 Checkmate Showdown: Chess meets Fighting games. Crush your opponents in the arena and on the chessboard in this online multiplayer competitive tactical fighting game that mixes the strategic elegance of Chess with the fast-paced execution of fighting games.
Players who liked Checkmate Showdown also play
Steam players who put hours into Checkmate Showdown 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.
Chess Kingdom
WHY THIS
Top pick for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Checkmate Showdown.
Chess for every kind of player. Whether you're learning the rules or hunting a Legend rank, there's a place for you in the kingdom.
Raging Fists: Retribution
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Raging Fists: Retribution is an Action Fighting Game based in a sci-fi industrial era.
RPG Chess
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Checkmate Showdown.
A turn-based RPG, except it’s also chess! Instead of capturing, your pieces fight in automated battles based on stats, elements and abilities. Build your team in roguelite tower runs, or battle friends or CPU's in 1v1 matches!
Generic Fighter Maybe
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
A classic arcade-style 2D Fighting Game, wrapped up in a goofy, full-of-energy, stylized presentation that mixes great animation and zany battle moves with simplistic doodles!
Street Fighter™ 6
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Ranked #5 for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Here comes Capcom’s newest challenger! Street Fighter™ 6 launches worldwide on June 2nd, 2023 and represents the next evolution of the Street Fighter™ series! Street Fighter 6 spans three distinct game modes, including World Tour, Fighting Ground and Battle Hub.
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Ranked #6 for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
Nidhogg
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Ranked #7 for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Ranked #8 for Checkmate Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
SHATTER ALL EXPECTATIONS! Transcend beyond your limits with KOF XV!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Checkmate Showdown
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Street Fighter™ 6
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Reviewers of Checkmate Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Here comes Capcom’s newest challenger! Street Fighter™ 6 launches worldwide on June 2nd, 2023 and represents the next evolution of the Street Fighter™ series! Street Fighter 6 spans three distinct game modes, including World Tour, Fighting Ground and Battle Hub.
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Reviewers of Checkmate Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Checkmate Showdown.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Smash Hit Museum
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Reviewers of Checkmate Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Smash stones. Collect artifacts. Build the world’s most profitable museum. A short clicker game set in the archeology room of a museum. Build up your collection and Upgrade until you break it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Checkmate Showdown at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Checkmate Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Checkmate Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Checkmate Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Checkmate Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Checkmate Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
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 ~65% under Checkmate Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
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 with Checkmate Showdown.
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 with Checkmate Showdown.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Checkmate Showdown.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Brief Karate Foolish
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Here comes a new epic of live action fighting game!! With 60fps smooth action, sexy and deadly guys fly into air and bounces their flab!
NERTS! Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Street Fighter™ 6
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Here comes Capcom’s newest challenger! Street Fighter™ 6 launches worldwide on June 2nd, 2023 and represents the next evolution of the Street Fighter™ series! Street Fighter 6 spans three distinct game modes, including World Tour, Fighting Ground and Battle Hub.
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Checkmate Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Checkmate Showdown.
SHATTER ALL EXPECTATIONS! Transcend beyond your limits with KOF XV!
Frequently asked about Checkmate Showdown
- Does Checkmate Showdown run on Steam Deck?
- Checkmate Showdown 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 Checkmate Showdown cost?
- Checkmate Showdown is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Checkmate Showdown have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Checkmate Showdown 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 Showdown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Checkmate Showdown are Chess Kingdom, Raging Fists: Retribution, RPG Chess.
- Who developed Checkmate Showdown?
- Checkmate Showdown was developed by BadRez Games and published by ManaVoid Entertainment, Indie Asylum.
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