Games like Mana Chess
If Mana Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guards of the Gate, Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch and Time Walker: Dark World — 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 Mana 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Mana 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.
Guards of the Gate
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Top pick for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
Guards of the Gate is a roguelike turn-based game on hexagonal fields. You control a team of heroes aka Guards of the Gate, who are trying to save the world from the evil Dragon Lord.
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Time Walker: Dark World
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Third-strongest match for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
Time Walker Dark World is a roguelike auto-battler with strategic combat. Players will need to adjust their formations, plan their resources, acquire loot, and upgrade skills to defeat formidable enemies and vicious bosses.
The Dragoness: Command of the Flame
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Ranked #4 for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
The Dragoness mixes HOMM-like exploration, city-building and turn-based strategic combat, with a roguelite twist. Choose your battles, paths and skills as you explore a world ravaged by war. Gather and manage your army of beasts, collect resources and expand your city.
Let's! Revolution!
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Ranked #5 for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
Let’s! Revolution! is a colorful roguelite puzzle mashup about stopping a narcissistic King from ruining your world. Flip tiles to uncover the hidden path to the King. Use deductive reasoning to avoid his cronies or take them all down in strategic turn-based combat.
Demeo
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Ranked #6 for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mana Chess.
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
Demeo: PC Edition
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Ranked #7 for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mana Chess.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
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Ranked #8 for Mana Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mana Chess.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mana Chess at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mana 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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~80% under Mana Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mana 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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mana 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.
The Lab
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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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mana Chess.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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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.
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Let's! Revolution!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Mana Chess.
Let’s! Revolution! is a colorful roguelite puzzle mashup about stopping a narcissistic King from ruining your world. Flip tiles to uncover the hidden path to the King. Use deductive reasoning to avoid his cronies or take them all down in strategic turn-based combat.
Demeo
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mana Chess.
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mana Chess.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Frequently asked about Mana Chess
- How much does Mana Chess cost?
- Mana Chess is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mana Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mana Chess are Guards of the Gate, Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch, Time Walker: Dark World.
- Who developed Mana Chess?
- Mana Chess was developed by Good Measure 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 Mana Chess.
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