Games like Passant: A Chess Roguelike
If Passant: A Chess Roguelike is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empire in Decay, Gambition and Top Check: A Chess Card Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Passant: A Chess Roguelike: Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.
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Empire in Decay
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Top pick for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
A roguelike chess strategy game where chess pieces evolve into powerful forms, gaining unique abilities and devastating synergies across ever-changing boards.
Top Check: A Chess Card Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Collect cards, build decks, and battle fierce opponents in Top Check, a roguelike deckbuilder and card game inspired by the classic game of chess. With many unique pieces and abilities, only the best strategists will emerge victorious. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
Crounds
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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.
Chess: The Lost Pieces
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
FROGGLE
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Froggy roguelite (Froguelite!) dungeon crawler - choose, upgrade, and combo powerful sigils. Then break the game! Inspired by Balatro, Slay the Spire, and Inscryption. Adorable 2D graphics made by humans | Original funky froggy beats | Strategic & Unique turn-based combat | Really fun, I promise!
Chess Nuke
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
RECRUIT, MERGE, and NUKE your board. Build game-breaking pieces and annihilate the enemy in this CHESS Roguelike.
Chess Royale
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Ranked #8 for Passant: A Chess Roguelike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
👑 A non-standard chess game in which kings have magical powers. The player needs to cut down the enemy king, building a victorious tactics by combining the queue of moves and magical abilities.
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Pawnbarian
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Shares a whimsical mood with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Reviewers of Passant: A Chess Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Reviewers of Passant: A Chess Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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!
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Reviewers of Passant: A Chess Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares roguelike progression, meta progression and an intense mood with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Reviewers of Passant: A Chess Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Passant: A Chess Roguelike at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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
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Priced ~62% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~52% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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
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Priced ~74% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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 Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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 ~87% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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 ~62% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Passant: A Chess Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
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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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Passant: A Chess Roguelike
- Does Passant: A Chess Roguelike run on Steam Deck?
- Passant: A Chess Roguelike is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Passant: A Chess Roguelike cost?
- Passant: A Chess Roguelike is listed on Steam at 7.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Passant: A Chess Roguelike?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Passant: A Chess Roguelike are Empire in Decay, Gambition, Top Check: A Chess Card Game.
- Who developed Passant: A Chess Roguelike?
- Passant: A Chess Roguelike was developed by Marc Makes Games.
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