Games like Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
If Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Check and Slash, Chessplosion and Nuclear Throne — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and brutal. 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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate: Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
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Check and Slash
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Check and Slash combines the action and combat of a hack and slash game with the movement patterns of chess pieces. Find your way through a maze of boards, slash your enemies, dodge attacks, rescue black pieces to receive upgrades and fight against formidable opponents until you find the enemy king.
Chessplosion
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Second-strongest match for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Third-strongest match for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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?
Run Build Pew!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Ranked #4 for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.
The Ouroboros King
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Ranked #5 for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
For The King
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Ranked #6 for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
For The King II
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, deck building and a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Ranked #7 for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?
Inkbound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Ranked #8 for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
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Other recommendable Steam games by PUNKCAKE Delicieux, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Wratch's Den
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
A byte-sized Dungeon Keeping roguelike: dig out your lair, populate it with monsters and protect the Wratch from heroes come for easy prestige.
MOONPONG: Tales of Epic Lunacy
WHY THIS
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Psychedelic Roguelite Pong 'em up where you go to bring back the Moon. A crazy, addictive, and hilarious arcade-action game based on the granddad of all video games.
Metavaxx
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The world's first minesweeper shooter. Identify infected cells, peacefully clear your way around them... or shoot 'em down and face the consequences.
Spectrum Forces
WHY THIS
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Action with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Make up your squads out of 9 unique spaceships and go clear 3 planets from hordes of robots in not-so-classic horizontal shoot-em-up style!
Scavenger of Dunomini
WHY THIS
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The world's first match-3 trash pile defender! Protect and manage your pile of garbage while recycling it into deadly defenses against thieving drones.
Rush for the Ages
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Remake history and race your opponents for a complete and glorious timeline in this lightning-fast card game.
Ecstatic
WHY THIS
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Rave spider goes to the bullet-hell ball: shoot rockets out of your butt, dodge and destroy waves upon waves of drones, slow down time whenever you don't move.
Pigments
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Another title from PUNKCAKE Delicieux, the studio behind Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. Shares Action with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Be a fruit locked in a room, dodge circular saws and paint as much of the level as you can.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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?
Run Build Pew!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.
The Ouroboros King
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
For The King II
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, deck building and a challenging mood with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?
Frequently asked about Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
- Is Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate cost?
- Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate are Check and Slash, Chessplosion, Nuclear Throne.
- Who developed Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate?
- Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate was developed by PUNKCAKE Delicieux.
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 Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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