Games like Questy Chess
If Questy Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Check and Slash, DICEPATH and Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive — 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 Questy Chess: A unique chess-RPG-puzzle hybrid set inside a corrupted 90s computer. Battle an evil chess invasion across 24 handcrafted levels, purge glitched worlds and bosses, and restore the system. Minimal Bauhaus visuals and a deep drone soundtrack shape a tense, atmospheric journey.
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Check and Slash
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Top pick for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
Check and Slash combines the action and combat of a hack and slash game with the movement patterns of chess pieces. Find your way through a maze of boards, slash your enemies, dodge attacks, rescue black pieces to receive upgrades and fight against formidable opponents until you find the enemy king.
DICEPATH
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Second-strongest match for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
DicePath is a puzzle game where every move costs Action Points. Plan your route, collect dice to stay alive, and reach the exit before you run out. 50 handcrafted levels. One resource. No margin for error.
Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive
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Third-strongest match for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Questy Chess.
Consume enemies. Steal their powers. Survive the grid. A hardcore tactical roguelike on a 7×7 corrupted mainframe with 60+ synergistic programs. Permadeath. Every run matters.
Crypts Of Carith
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Ranked #4 for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Questy Chess.
Create a party of up to six custom adventurers and descend into the dangerous Crypts of Carith. Explore sewers, forgotten cellars, and ancient tombs, battle deadly creatures, and uncover powerful loot in this classic party-based dungeon crawling RPG built on a familiar D20 system.
Dataminers
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Ranked #5 for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside. Dataminers is a casual logic game, where you climb and clear towers full of data mines.
Puzzle Tactics
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Ranked #6 for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
Puzzle Tactics is a turn-based and grid-based tactics game played in various small levels. You play as the blue team with the goal of defeating the red team's units before losing your own. Later levels are more difficult and introduce more unit types in battle.
Unlock The King
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Ranked #7 for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Chess Brain
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Ranked #8 for Questy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Questy Chess at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
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?
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
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!
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~83% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~50% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and RPG with Questy Chess.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~67% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Priced ~67% under Questy Chess on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Questy 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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Questy Chess.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about Questy Chess
- How much does Questy Chess cost?
- Questy Chess is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Questy Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Questy Chess are Check and Slash, DICEPATH, Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive.
- Who developed Questy Chess?
- Questy Chess was developed by Dadako.
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