Single-player games like Passant: A Chess Roguelike
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Passant: A Chess Roguelike, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Gambonanza
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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!
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The Ouroboros King
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
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The Rookery
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
An exciting and fast-paced chess roguelite, full of ridiculous abilities! Explode your opponent's pieces, spawn queens all over the board, move twice in a row... But watch out for the bosses, who have crazy powers of their own!
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Monster Train 2
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
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Pawnbarian
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
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Underboard
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
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.
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Inkshade
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Block Strategy
Single-player alternative to Passant: A Chess Roguelike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Passant: A Chess Roguelike.
Block Strategy is an RTS Base Defence roguelite with a fully destructible world. Build your base and find fuel to power your reactor before you're overrun by an onslaught of enemy robots.