Games like Rooks Keep
If Rooks Keep is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shoot 'm Up, Allied Nations and Beyond Senses — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. 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 Rooks Keep: Rooks Keep is an arena-based, melee combat game. A variety of game-modes, characters, maps and mutators are available. It also has Chess modes, mod support and decapitation!
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Steam players who put hours into Rooks Keep 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.
Shoot 'm Up
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Tactical multiplayer chaos.That's what would describe this game in 3 words. It's fast, it's messy, it's challenging. Do you like blowing up zombies to bits together with your friends? Protecting your base from the enemy team? Grab your gear and start the chaos!
Allied Nations
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Allied Nations is an primarily online RPG/RTS akin to games such as Dwarf Fortress and the more modern RimWorld. You are able to easily manage units, wage war, build and roleplay. Through your own wit, might, or sheer luck can you survive this experience? Probably not but give it your best try!
Beyond Senses
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rooks Keep.
Beyond Senses is an innovative Multiplayer and Singleplayer Horror Game. Thanks to a variety of different features, Beyond Senses guarantees a varied and adrenaline-charged gameplay - both alone and with friends!
Bloodspill
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Bloodspill is a fast-paced, pvp retro fps with one hit combat, featuring classic gamemodes like deathmatch, capture the flag and conquest!
Be Vigilant!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Be Vigilant! is a multiplayer cooperative action RPG. Take your friends on an adventure across three acts. Use vehicles, find loot, fight enemies, while increasing your characters skills and equipment.
Primordium - Day Zero
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Fight for survival in a sci-fi RPG! Take control of the Nexus' Commander and gather companions to grow your team, build bases using a vast array of AAA quality models, and customize your arsenal using countless combinations of modular attachments, items, armor, and weapons!
BattleBeasts
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Planet Shima attracts adventure seekers from all over the Galaxy BB-79 due to its unique resources. The mysterious effects on this planet made Artificial Intelligence of Shima aggressive towards all intelligent species of animals.
AD METALLUM
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rooks Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rooks Keep.
You are the rebel. Drill, blast, and pulverize everything in your path. Fortresses crumble, walls collapse, and the world bends to your fury. Take on brutal single-player campaigns or unleash chaos in multiplayer. MYNE is destruction, rebellion, and steel incarnate.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rooks Keep
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Unreal Tournament 3
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rooks Keep.
Reviewers of Rooks Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
Viscera Cleanup Detail
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rooks Keep.
Reviewers of Rooks Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rooks Keep.
Reviewers of Rooks Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
You are part of an elite commando force that must infiltrate a hostile alien cite. Once inside, you must scour industrial landscapes, crawl through waterways and air ducts, navigate treacherous canyons teeming with vicious mutants, stow away on an alien spacecraft, and destroy the enemy's secret moon base.
Chivalry 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rooks Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
Chivalry 2 is a multiplayer first person slasher inspired by epic medieval movie battles. Players are thrust into the action of every iconic moment of the era - from clashing swords, to storms of flaming arrows, to sprawling castle sieges and more.
Red Glare The Reckoning
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rooks Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Rooks Keep.
Red Glare: The Reckoning is a fully standalone experience of Real Time Tactics game Red Glare. You do not need the original Red Glare to play. Whether you're a returning agent or a first-time recruit, this is a complete campaign with its own story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rooks Keep at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
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 ~81% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
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 ~88% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Rooks Keep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
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 Rooks Keep.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rooks Keep.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rooks Keep.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
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Other recommendable Steam games by RuneStorm, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Viscera Cleanup Detail
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rooks Keep.
Another title from RuneStorm, the studio behind Rooks Keep. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rooks Keep.
Another title from RuneStorm, the studio behind Rooks Keep. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
Tragedy! Santa; the toy giving folk-hero, and purveyor of fine Christmas goods, has had enough. Endless requests from greedy children wanting more and more every year, tax increases, pressure from elf unions, bills, reindeer!
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rooks Keep.
Another title from RuneStorm, the studio behind Rooks Keep. Shares Indie with Rooks Keep.
After the battle is over, someone has to cleanup the mess! Introducing Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior from RuneStorm, a unique crossover mini-game that combines the worlds of Viscera Cleanup Detail and Shadow Warrior.
Frequently asked about Rooks Keep
- How much does Rooks Keep cost?
- Rooks Keep is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rooks Keep have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rooks Keep supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rooks Keep?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rooks Keep are Shoot 'm Up, Allied Nations, Beyond Senses.
- Who developed Rooks Keep?
- Rooks Keep was developed by RuneStorm.
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