Single-player games like Questy Chess
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Questy Chess, 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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Check and Slash
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Questy Chess.
Absorber is a turn-based tactical roguelike where you fight across a corrupted mainframe's 7×7 grid, absorbing defeated enemies to steal their abilities and build toward the core. Permadeath. 12+ hostile sectors. Every run is different.
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DICEPATH
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Weapon Gambit
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
Roll your weapons, plan your every move! A bite-sized tactical puzzle blending dice and chess. Strategize your positioning with the rolled weapons to dismantle enemy defenses. Strike directly at the Monster Crystal before your turns run out!
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Crypts Of Carith
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Questy Chess.
Explore the village of Carith, dank 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.
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Dataminers
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Puzzle Tactics
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Unlock The King
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Questy Chess.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
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Pirate Pop™
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You awaken on a strange island sometime in the afternoon. Half your face is sunburnt and seagulls stole your lunch. Enough about you. This is about Pete Jr! The tiny pirate! He looks up to see bubbles, tons of them! What's causing these bubbles to appear? Who is behind this awful mischief?
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Bad Pixels
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Back in the days of the wild west, everything was much more rudimentary and raw. Drinking water had bits in it, shoes had holes in them, and computers only had 8-bits of processing power. With limited colors, resolution and audio, you too can relive those gritty days of old. It was Bad, Bad Pixels.
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Spy Drops Gaiden
Single-player alternative to Questy Chess — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Infiltrate enemy bases and undertake a series of covert ops in thrilling, old school 2D stealth action.