Games like Hellmate
If Hellmate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empire in Decay, Gambition and Forge the Fates — 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 Hellmate: A DECK-BUILDING ROGUELIKE CHESS game. Choose chess set, build deck as you go, bring the enemy king’s HP to 0 in as few turns, solve dilemma cases. Each run has 7 randomly generated hell floors, themed around the 7 deadly sins.
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Empire in Decay
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Top pick for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
Gambition
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Second-strongest match for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
A chess-inspired tactical roguelike where every battle becomes a puzzle of sacrifice and manipulation. Evolve chess pieces, build powerful armies, and turn clever sacrifices into devastating synergies.
Forge the Fates
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Third-strongest match for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
Take deckbuilding to the next level. Transform your hand of cards into a tactical grid of runes. Plan, shift, and strike to unleash powerful combos and chain match-3 bonuses. Choose your hero, master their deck, and fight through deadly dungeons to face a mysterious dark overlord.
Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder
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Ranked #4 for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
Roguelike deckbuilding chess in the seven floors of Hell. Each floor belongs to a deadly sin, and every sin crowns its own king. Summon pieces, sling spells, and brand your army with sigils to melt the king's HP before your turns run out. Seven sins, seven kings, one deck.
Pawnbarian
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Ranked #5 for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
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!
Gambonanza
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Ranked #6 for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Hellmate.
Gambonanza is a turn-based chess roguelike, set on a tiny board with higher stakes. Master tactical twists, invest your winnings and discover new rule-bending Gambits, tile and piece combinations. Face off against challenging bosses and get lost in all the ways you can break traditional chess!
ANTHEM#9
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Ranked #7 for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
Combine gems to form combos! In the Strategic Gem Match roguelite "Anthem#9", you’ll fight thrilling and puzzle-like combo battles. Assume the role of an agent of the secret organization known as Anthem#9 and confront powerful foes! Strategic deck construction is the key to unleashing lots of combos
Cobalt Core
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Ranked #8 for Hellmate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hellmate.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hellmate.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Hellmate.
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 Indie with Hellmate.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hellmate.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Hellmate.
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.
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Frequently asked about Hellmate
- What games are most similar to Hellmate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hellmate are Empire in Decay, Gambition, Forge the Fates.
- Who developed Hellmate?
- Hellmate was developed by Overbaked Studio.
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 Hellmate.
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