Games like Chessfall
If Chessfall is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gambition, Tumble Tavern and Stem The Tide — 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 Chessfall: A roguelite adventure in a cursed chess kingdom. Roam the realm as a shapeshifter, collect powerful items and loot, trade with merchants, defeat mighty bosses, and find the White Queen to break the Black Wizard's curse!
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Steam players who put hours into Chessfall 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.
Gambition
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Top pick for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chessfall.
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.
Tumble Tavern
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Second-strongest match for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chessfall.
A push-your-luck dice game where one throw can take everything. Build a six-die loadout, carry three runestones and read the rival across the table. Bank too early and you lose the race. Bank too late and you lose the lot.
Stem The Tide
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Third-strongest match for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chessfall.
Lead the last bastion against the Swarm in this hybrid auto-battler and roguelite. Build your camp, recruit and merge units, create faction synergies, upgrade your warriors, and survive procedurally generated waves of monsters to save the world from destruction!
Hit Streak And Brawl
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Ranked #4 for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chessfall.
Fast-paced light roguelike: random events flash rapidly. Surrounded by swarms, move up/down/left/right to charge and knock enemies flying. Combine effects—or adapt instantly. Break encirclements, rack up scores.Accept the Boss's challenge.
Prismarch
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Ranked #5 for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chessfall.
A colorful chess roguelike! Engage in dopaminergic, cinematic strategy while you fulfill a chess power fantasy - your pieces gain abilities as you construct a juiced up roster capable of surviving the onslaught! Only - seven mysterious prismatic kings stand before you and the one true crown...
Tombstone Tactics
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Ranked #6 for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessfall.
Tombstone Tactics is a roguelike autobattler played from the wrong side of the crypt. Raise skeletons, arm them with the gear of fallen heroes, and sacrifice the weak to reshape your forces. Build the right army to keep your Lich alive through the run.
March and Conquer
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Ranked #7 for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chessfall.
March and Conquer is a short autobattler game. During the battle, use the skill tree to train units to fight against enemies on the battlefield. Gain gold and mana from wins and train different units and upgrade your army. March across multiple lands and fight fearsome foes!
Chess: King of Crowns Chess Online
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Ranked #8 for Chessfall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chessfall.
King of Crowns Chess Online can be played through any web browser, PC, phone, tablet or Smart TV. A one time payment is required for a lifetime access. NO monthly fees or hidden costs. No banner advertisements, bots or pay to win schemes, just chess.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Chessfall.
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. Shares Adventure with Chessfall.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chessfall.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chessfall.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chessfall.
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 Adventure with Chessfall.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chessfall.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chessfall.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Chessfall
- What games are most similar to Chessfall?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chessfall are Gambition, Tumble Tavern, Stem The Tide.
- Who developed Chessfall?
- Chessfall was developed by LEVEL Manufactory, LAB132 and published by LEVEL Manufactory.
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 Chessfall.
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