Single-player games like Chess Pills
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Chess Pills, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chess Pills.
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
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Dark Chess
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.
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Gigachess
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!
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Chess Ultra
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Introducing Chess Ultra; the most breathtaking chess game ever made. Experience stunning 4K visuals, seamless online multiplayer, Grandmaster approved AI and full VR compatibility.
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Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.
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Wingspan
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
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Khet 2.0
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
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The Ouroboros King
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
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.
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Nowadays everyone is a self-proclaimed chess player! Quite different from the soviet kids back in the old days. Maybe you are not so lazy and really want to improve your chess knowledge. Surprise me!
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Winning Patterns
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Attention, comrade! Registrations are open once again! The players submitted to my previous training showed significant improvement in chess skills when compared to the rest of the population, even the lazy ones. So what are you waiting for?? Enroll NOW by clicking on the purchase button!!
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Opening Traps
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Do you think Queen's Gambit is a TV series, comrade? WRONG! It is a Chess opening! If you don't even know that, you have a lot to learn! A good chess player should know the chess openings and, more important, how to avoid their traps! Enroll NOW and find out how!
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Chess Pills.
All this current chess hype is producing too many know-it-alls. It's time to teach you kids real chess from my fellow masters. Enroll now and you might learn a thing or two.
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Mid-Century USSR Championships
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
We meet again, chess enthusiast comrade! If chess knowledge is what you seek, you have come to the right place. Let's see if you are worthy of standing on the shoulders of the soviet giants!
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Miss me already, comrade? A wise human once said: "Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by." So don't let this one pass! Enroll NOW and be prepared to learn from the real masters!
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Prodigies
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Do you think you have nothing to learn from a child? And what about the world's greatest chess prodigies of all time? Let BOT.vinnik - the Soviet digital trainer - show you how.
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Legendary Queens
Single-player alternative to Chess Pills — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Pills.
Do you think chess is a man's game, comrade? THINK AGAIN! The Soviet Queens are here to crush your ego and show you true elegance on the board. Enroll NOW!