Games like Dunchess
If Dunchess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Weapon Gambit, Chess Visualized and Chess: The Lost Pieces — 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 Dunchess: Chess, but with spells, items and dungeons that fight back. Play online matches on boards full of vision crystals, teleports and fog, where every piece has abilities the original never had.
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Steam players who put hours into Dunchess 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.
Weapon Gambit
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Top pick for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
Roll your weapons, plan your every move! A bite-sized tactical puzzle blending dice and chess. Strategize your positioning with the rolled weapons to dismantle enemy defenses. Strike directly at the Monster Crystal before your turns run out!
Chess Visualized
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Second-strongest match for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does
Chess: The Lost Pieces
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Third-strongest match for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Crounds
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Ranked #4 for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
Crounds is a online PvP chess roguelike where you draft game breaking upgrades to create devastating combos and disrupt your opponents plans. After key points in the game players take turns to pick upgrades that define their strategy.
Tide Of Tactics
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Ranked #5 for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dunchess.
Tide Of Tactics is a medieval turn-based tactics game. Choose a commander to play, each with their own unique unit and abilities, then go to battle on a grid-based battlefield. Use the terrain to your advantage, place traps on the ground, and build the right units to counter your enemy.
Prowl
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Ranked #6 for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
Prowl is a fast, turn-based roguelite where combat plays out through patterns. Pick an animal. Modify its attacks and movement, manipulate the board, and outplay overwhelming odds one tile at a time.
Once a Pawn a King
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Ranked #7 for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
Chess is broken. Gather the Black Army, build a party of chess pieces, and battle through fractured boards in this asymmetric turn-based roguelike. Empower your army, adapt your strategy each run, and unravel the mystery behind a world trapped in an endless match.
Pico Pico Dungeon!
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Ranked #8 for Dunchess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dunchess.
A turn-based roguelike RPG that's easy to pick up and play! Casual yet challenging! Strategic depth is preserved! In addition to roguelike stages, there are over 20 diverse stages, including puzzles and tower defense!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dunchess.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dunchess.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dunchess.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dunchess.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dunchess.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dunchess.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Dunchess
- Does Dunchess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dunchess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Dunchess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dunchess are Weapon Gambit, Chess Visualized, Chess: The Lost Pieces.
- Who developed Dunchess?
- Dunchess was developed by Chateau Pixel SL.
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 Dunchess.
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