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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Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle vs Chess.
Experience a 4K graphics strategy game with tactical depth, breadth, and challenge like nothing you have played before: the perfect mix of Chess, tactical setups and quests inpired by classic RPGs
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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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Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
CONNECT MORE THAN CITIES! Set off with your friends and family to re(discover) Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition, the classic boardgame. In this railway adventure, you’ll need to be the quickest to link up your cities and reach your destinations.
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Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
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Chess Brain
Single-player alternative to Battle vs Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Battle vs Chess.
Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
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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.