Games like RPG Chess
If RPG Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Kingdom, Hex Gambit: Respawned and 3D Chess Online — 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 RPG Chess: A turn-based RPG, except it’s also chess! Instead of capturing, your pieces fight in automated battles based on stats, elements and abilities. Build your team in roguelite tower runs, or battle friends or CPU's in 1v1 matches!
Players who liked RPG Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into RPG Chess 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.
Chess Kingdom
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Top pick for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with RPG Chess.
Chess for every kind of player. Whether you're learning the rules or hunting a Legend rank, there's a place for you in the kingdom.
Hex Gambit: Respawned
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Second-strongest match for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.
Hex Gambit: Respawned is a quirky and competitive digital board game for 1-4 players that’s easy to pick up and hard to put down!
3D Chess Online
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Third-strongest match for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
Chess: The Lost Pieces
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Ranked #4 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
CHESS with LASERS
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Ranked #5 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.
Obliterate the enemy's king with your laser by strategically moving/rotating mirrors, portals and more in this mind-bending chess-like game. Challenge your friends or battle an AI (includes Level Editor)!
Neuroshima Hex
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Ranked #6 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with RPG Chess.
Neuroshima Hex is a post-apocalyptic tactical game from the designers of Neuroshima, the board game. It is all about strategy and tactics on one hexagonal battlefield. The game offers many different units, technologies and special abilities that can be used for an effective strategy.
Dice Ark
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Ranked #7 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.
Dice Ark — A roguelike board game where dice decide your fate. Allocate your hand into attack, defense, and crystal raids. Compete for total wealth. When gold turns red, Sin blooms — three turns later, you become a Demon. Six classes, 20+ dice, seven sins. 15–70 min of greed and ruin.
Keep the Keep
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Ranked #8 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.
Test your problem-causing skills with this strategic turn-based strategy multiplayer puzzle indie game. Build towers and destroy your Opponent's Keep via fast-paced turn-based combat that leaves all the tedious parts behind. Solve riddles solo or create some for your friends online!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RPG Chess.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 RPG Chess.
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 RPG Chess.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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 RPG Chess.
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 RPG Chess.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about RPG Chess
- Does RPG Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — RPG Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to RPG Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RPG Chess are Chess Kingdom, Hex Gambit: Respawned, 3D Chess Online.
- Who developed RPG Chess?
- RPG Chess was developed by Oskar Aleksander Melbye.
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 RPG Chess.
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