Single-player games like Battle vs Chess
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Battle vs Chess, 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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Khet 2.0
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
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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Simply Chess
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
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Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
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BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
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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Armello
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.
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Check vs Mate
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
Commanders, assemble your armies! CHECK vs. MATE calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multimedia world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command!
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Gremlins, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
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Chaos Reborn
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
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Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland of diesel and dust, bandits and mobsters rule the last remaining cities, controlling all vital trade routes and destroying any hope of a return to a lawful world.
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BlazeRush
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Battle vs Chess.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
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Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise Of Clans / Ex Machina: Meridian 113
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans - is an addon to a vehicular Action/RPG set in an alternate future. New heroes and mysteries await you in the vistas of a post-apocalyptic North America.
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Planets Under Attack
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
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Insane 2
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Features traditional time trial mode and 9 other game modes, including the popular “Capture the flag”, “Gate hunt” and “Pathfinder”.
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Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade/Ex Machina Arcade - is the races through the deserted prairies and canyons of northern America, infected by a fatal virus. You are to find the reasons of the global catastrophe described in the original game Hard Truck: Apocalypse.
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Battle Mages
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
There is a world which needs your defense. You are the young mage that has just graduated the mages school and you must pass through several hard tests to become a decent defender.