Games like Petrified Pawns
If Petrified Pawns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Check and Slash, Underboard and Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG — 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 Petrified Pawns: Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells. Make your units stronger by equipping weapons and armor and by upgrading stats as you level up. Become powerful enough to take down giant bosses!
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Check and Slash
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Top pick for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
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.
Underboard
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Second-strongest match for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Petrified Pawns.
Tactical team-building roguelike auto-battler with active and passive playstyles. Draft a team as you explore maps full of monsters, build synergies, equip items and cast spells to support your team during battles and help them escape the Underboard.
Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!
Backpack Dungeon
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Ranked #4 for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
A unique pixel-art backpack management roguelike. Your backpack isn't just storage—it's your combat core. Item placement, adjacency, and trigger mechanics determine your survival in the dungeon. A mental challenge of spatial planning and strategy.
Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons
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Ranked #5 for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons is a First Person Idle Dungeon Crawler with 6 unique races, robust combat, a grand saga spanning a continent full of unique dungeons, a classless skill system, and extensive guild management system to master as you uncover the secrets of the world of Dragaea!
Water Margin Scrolls
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Ranked #6 for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
"Water Margin Scrolls" is a squad-building loot-hunting game set in the world of Water Margin. Collect iconic heroes from the classic tale and challenge other players in strategic battles.
Mortal Glory 2
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Ranked #7 for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters
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Ranked #8 for Petrified Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Petrified Pawns.
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters is an inventory auto-battler with a monster-trainer twist! Collect Cosmions and items, and strategically manage your backpack to create unbeatable combos in tactical duels. Rise through the leagues to become the ultimate Cosmion master!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Petrified Pawns at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~58% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~58% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Petrified Pawns.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~75% under Petrified Pawns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Indie with Petrified Pawns.
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!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Petrified Pawns.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Petrified Pawns.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Minion Masters
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Petrified Pawns.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Petrified Pawns.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
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Frequently asked about Petrified Pawns
- How much does Petrified Pawns cost?
- Petrified Pawns is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Petrified Pawns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Petrified Pawns are Check and Slash, Underboard, Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG.
- Who developed Petrified Pawns?
- Petrified Pawns was developed by Bepansrad Studio.
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