Games like The Ouroboros King
If The Ouroboros King is your kind of game, the closest matches are Usurper, CHESS CROWN and Mad Chess — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but replayable runs, atmospheric and challenging. 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 The Ouroboros King: 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.
Players who liked The Ouroboros King also play
Steam players who put hours into The Ouroboros King 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.
Usurper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ouroboros King.
Top pick for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ouroboros King.
A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where your King is your strongest weapon. Play cards from your deck to drop units onto the battlefield and checkmate your opponent. Build your Deck, Upgrade your Ruler, and Claim the Throne.
CHESS CROWN
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
CHESS CROWN- chess in a medieval fantasy theme and with the opportunity to compete with other players on the network.
Mad Chess
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Mad Chess is a turn-based strategy game that vastly expands on the classic game of chess. Explore a colorful fantasy world, recruit up to 20 unique factions, fight-off an alien invasion in a single-player story mode or battle your friends online!
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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!
Dark Chess
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ouroboros King.
Ranked #5 for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Ouroboros King.
Ranked #6 for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ouroboros King.
Ranked #7 for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
For The King
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Ouroboros King.
Ranked #8 for The Ouroboros King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Ouroboros King.
Reviewers of The Ouroboros King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Ouroboros King.
Reviewers of The Ouroboros King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Riding Shotgun
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Ouroboros King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Just you, the road, and 40,000 demons. Drive and shoot your way through an endless hoard of satanic spawns in this adrenaline fueled road trip from Hell. keep your wits about you to reach your destination; the City of Sin - Las Vegas.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ouroboros King at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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 The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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 The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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 The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Ouroboros King.
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 The Ouroboros King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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 Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ouroboros King.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about The Ouroboros King
- Is The Ouroboros King verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Ouroboros King 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 The Ouroboros King cost?
- The Ouroboros King is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Ouroboros King have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Ouroboros King supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Ouroboros King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ouroboros King are Usurper, CHESS CROWN, Mad Chess.
- Who developed The Ouroboros King?
- The Ouroboros King was developed by Oriol Cosp Games and published by Oriol Cosp Games, Hawthorn Games.
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