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Games like RPG Chess

If RPG Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Je Di Bo, A Wizard-Chess Tournament and Dice chess — 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.

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About RPG Chess: A turn-based RPG, except it’s also chess! Instead of capturing, your pieces fight in battles based on stats, levels and abilities. Build your team and battle friends or CPU's in 1v1 matches!

2026StrategyIndieAdventureRPGCasualEarly AccessWindows · macOSby Oskar Aleksander Melbye
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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.

  1. Je Di Bo

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with RPG Chess.

    Je Di Bo is a chaotic, deep turn-based card strategy where chess-like logic meets unpredictability. Move pieces, upgrade their ranks, and dominate the board. But beware: every 7 turns, Karma rolls the dice and completely changes the rules of engagement. Can you outsmart the chaos?

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  2. A Wizard-Chess Tournament

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.

    Chess, but with wizards. Every piece has HP and Attack and spell cards bend the rules. Outplay a friend in hotseat, over LAN, or online and climb the leaderboard.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Dice chess

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.

    A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.

    2026StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Sans Issue

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.

    Sans Issue is a 2D game mixing chess and card-deck building. Use cards to summon new pieces, move your pieces in new ways, and change the board's terrain. Earn new cards via the campaign, create custom decks using the deckbuilder, and play against your friends both locally and over Steam. 

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Mitrys: Legends of Eania

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with RPG Chess.

    Mitrys: Legends of Eania brings the acclaimed dark-fantasy board game to PC. Explore a hand-illustrated world, draw event cards, and settle every encounter with the roll of the dice. Play solo or co-op in Classic mode — then test your team in ranked Battle Mode across two warring continents.

    StrategySteam ↗
  6. Power Showdown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.

    Power Showdown is a turn-based tactical superhero strategy game where positioning, powers, terrain, and team composition determine every battle.Build a squad from a growing collection of heroes and villains. Build your team. Master your powers. Win the showdown.

    2027ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. Tafl Throne Breakers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with RPG Chess.

    Play like a Viking in this cunning game of strategy - help your Jarl escape the battlefield or capture them before they do. Endlessly enjoyable with multiple variations, AI and online opponents and regular events to determine who is the grand master of Tafl!

    2027StrategySteam ↗
  8. Tumble Tavern

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for RPG Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RPG Chess.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗

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  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

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  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

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 Je Di Bo, A Wizard-Chess Tournament, Dice chess.
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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