Games like King of the Bridge
If King of the Bridge is your kind of game, the closest matches are RPG Chess, Codex Arcana: Grimoire of Monsters and Kingdoms of Age — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its achievements are uniquely fun, challenging and comedic. 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 →King of the Bridge is a chess variant from solo developer Finn Schuuring, released in 2024. Players face off against a bridge troll who constantly cheats and rewrites the rules, forcing a rethink to unlearn standard strategy and adapt across short matches, with humorous dialogue, multiple endings, and a speedrun mode. It runs 95% positive of 1,193 Steam reviews and is Playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe a comedic, contemplative experience and credit the cheating-chess concept that subverts expectations, the humorous troll opponent, and the uniquely fun achievement challenges. Priced at just $2.99 and falling under strategy and adventure, it pairs rule adaptation with a short but complete structure. The rule-bending chess premise defines what the data covers for this quirky title.
About King of the Bridge: Face off against the bridge troll in his bizarre game of chess! Decrypt, Twist and Enforce the rules as your devious opponent attempts to break them in King of the Bridge!
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Steam players who put hours into King of the Bridge 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.
RPG Chess
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Top pick for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with King of the Bridge.
A turn-based RPG, except it’s also chess! Instead of capturing, your pieces fight in automated battles based on stats, elements and abilities. Build your team in roguelite tower runs, or battle friends or CPU's in 1v1 matches!
Codex Arcana: Grimoire of Monsters
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with King of the Bridge.
Summon an army of Monster Girls to face your enemies in strategic battles! Defeat the Dark Lord's minions and expand your collection with cool, fierce and cute Monster Girls of all variety in this "Capsule Monsters" inspired game!
Kingdoms of Age
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Third-strongest match for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with King of the Bridge.
Kingdoms of Age is a trading card game, which pits you against other kingdoms where you battle in the arena.
Unpredictable Star
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Ranked #4 for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King of the Bridge.
Unpredictable Star is a strategy adventure game. Players need to protect their base in the unpredictable star domain, manage the cafe inside the base, recruit new partners, explore and battle.
Fantasy to Kill
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Ranked #5 for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with King of the Bridge.
The world is unfair, but you will be worse. Parry and counter during monster turns in challenging turn-based combat. Level up and find new spells, weapons and items in the 2.5d overworld to gain an advantage over encounters.
Two Die
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Ranked #6 for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with King of the Bridge.
Two Die is a turn-based, tactical, roguelike RPG where every action is determined by the roll of two six sided dice. Battle enemies to upgrade your character and discover what hides in your lost memories.
Escria
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Ranked #7 for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with King of the Bridge.
Explore a dying fantasy world in this atmospheric 2D adventure, created by a single guy. Fight dangerous creatures, collect powerful weapons and relics, and journey through forests, castles, ruins, and corrupted lands before the world of Escria fades forever.
The Handbook
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Ranked #8 for King of the Bridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with King of the Bridge.
Embark in a chaotic quest in a fantasy world to save a small town from certain destruction. Play as the great wizard Tim in an RPG while learning powerful spells and leveling your character. Explore the world, find its secrets and unravel the story behind The Handbook.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below King of the Bridge at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King of the Bridge.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King of the Bridge.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King of the Bridge.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Landlord of the Woods
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Ukrainian ball in search of gas
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Priced ~67% under King of the Bridge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with King of the Bridge.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about King of the Bridge
- Does King of the Bridge run on Steam Deck?
- King of the Bridge is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does King of the Bridge cost?
- King of the Bridge is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to King of the Bridge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside King of the Bridge are RPG Chess, Codex Arcana: Grimoire of Monsters, Kingdoms of Age.
- Who developed King of the Bridge?
- King of the Bridge was developed by Finn Schuuring.
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 King of the Bridge.
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