Games like Check and Slash
If Check and Slash is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess: The Lost Pieces, Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate and Chessplosion — 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 Check and Slash: Check and Slash combines the action and combat of a hack and slash game with the movement patterns of chess pieces. Find your way through a maze of boards, slash your enemies, dodge attacks, rescue black pieces to receive upgrades and fight against formidable opponents until you find the enemy king.
Players who liked Check and Slash also play
Steam players who put hours into Check and Slash 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.
Chess: The Lost Pieces
WHY THIS
Top pick for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Check and Slash.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Chessplosion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Check and Slash.
Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents. Defeat enemies and bosses in Adventure Mode and the roguelike-inspired Dungeon Mode, break targets with limited bombs in Puzzle Mode, or fight friends and AI in Battle Mode.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
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!
WizardChess
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
What if chess was invented by silly cosmic wizards? WizardChess is a turnbased roguelite where all the pieces have insane abilities that came to us in a shamanic vision. Fight chaotic-yet-tactical encounters with magic powers out of a fever dream! Defeat the FaeQueen and Claim Your Wish!
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
For The King
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
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.
Drop Duchy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Check and Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Check and Slash at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Check and Slash.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Check and Slash.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Check and Slash.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Check and Slash.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Check and Slash.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Check and Slash.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Check and Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Check and Slash.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Action and Indie with Check and Slash.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Check and Slash.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Check and Slash.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Check and Slash.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Check and Slash.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
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!
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Check and Slash.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
Frequently asked about Check and Slash
- How much does Check and Slash cost?
- Check and Slash is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Check and Slash?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Check and Slash are Chess: The Lost Pieces, Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate, Chessplosion.
- Who developed Check and Slash?
- Check and Slash was developed by Gate of Madness.
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 Check and Slash.
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