Games like Grandmaster's Gambit
If Grandmaster's Gambit is your kind of game, the closest matches are Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel, Craftaway: Tactics and POKOR — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Grandmaster's Gambit: A never-before-seen take on the chess genre. Build massively overpowered decks to fend off endless hordes of chess-like pieces and seek out the 8 Grandmasters in this open-world deckbuilding roguelike experience.
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Steam players who put hours into Grandmaster's Gambit 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.
Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel
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Top pick for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
A solo rogue-lite combining deckbuilding and board tactics. Build a deck and play cards governed by movement and combat rules. Seize Magic Ore, manage resources, and face relentless foes. Lead allies across four territories, challenge the Infernal Citadel, and restore order to a shattered world!
Craftaway: Tactics
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Second-strongest match for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
Fight, Strategize, and Power up in this tactical roguelite with progression, equipment, card crafting, and campaigns! DEMO COMING SOON!
POKOR
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Third-strongest match for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
POKOR is a story-driven roguelike tactical turn-based card RPG. Players take on the role of Heart, commanding a deck of playing card soldiers to engage in turn-based battles against enemies as they venture deeper into a vast, pale, and ever-changing palace to uncover the truth and the true self.
Ember Covenant
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Ranked #4 for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
A dark-fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where burning cards fuels your power—and your enemies. Build a deck, master five Sigils, complete Litanies, break four Seals, and decide how much Heat you are willing to unleash.
Match! The 12 CZ Wars
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Ranked #5 for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
"Match! The 12 CZ Wars" is a roguelike strategy game blending match-3 and buff-building. Partner with 12 Zodiac Maidens to repel ancient primordial beasts. Navigate random events, battles, and upgrades. Carefully choose paths, manage resources, and empower your Maidens to secure victory.
Re:Night
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Ranked #6 for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
Re:Night is a strategy game that blends turn based tactics with roguelike deckbuilding. In each run, build your deck, plan your tactics, and experiment with countless 3-character team combinations. Journey to a mysterious town, break the endless cycle of night, and bring dawn back to the world.
Fight Life: Vanguard
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Ranked #7 for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion. Take on the mantle of leadership as you guide a mercenary squad through perilous landscapes, selecting your comrades from a diverse pool of skilled recruits.
Marvel's Midnight Suns
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Ranked #8 for Grandmaster's Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster's Gambit.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Grandmaster's Gambit.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Nazi Zombies
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Frequently asked about Grandmaster's Gambit
- What games are most similar to Grandmaster's Gambit?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grandmaster's Gambit are Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel, Craftaway: Tactics, POKOR.
- Who developed Grandmaster's Gambit?
- Grandmaster's Gambit was developed by iNightGaming LLC.
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 Grandmaster's Gambit.
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