Games like Checkmage!
If Checkmage! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Manahex, HeroStory and Noctiria — 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 Checkmage!: A chess-based strategy game with casual deckbuilding elements. Build your deck by trading cards and battling lovable, hand-drawn characters.
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Steam players who put hours into Checkmage! 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.
Manahex
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Top pick for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmage!.
Build your own deck and battle other mages in a world of fantasy and magic. Take control of the hexes on the board to gain mana and pay for spells and creatures. Quick online matches with all 100+ cards unlocked from the start!
Noctiria
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmage!.
A filthy, brutal, and disturbing horror roguelike deckbuilder. Choose your hero, build your deck, combine devastating status effects, and cross Noctiria: a sick urban city where every run drags you deeper.
Nowhere Prophet
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Ranked #4 for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmage!.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
XenoWorld ~The Rondeau of Astra~
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Ranked #5 for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmage!.
《異境迷走TRoA》是一款結合戰棋、卡牌和Rogue的戰棋遊戲。你將操控「主戰者」，在一關又一關的迷霧森林中，擊敗所有敵人，並揭開異世界「亞斯特大陸」的秘密......
Faeria
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Ranked #6 for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmage!.
With its unique living board, Faeria is also the only card game where you can gain all 300 cards in less than 50 hours.
Fight Life: Vanguard
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Ranked #7 for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Checkmage!.
Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion. Take on the mantle of leadership as you guide a mercenary squad through perilous landscapes, selecting your comrades from a diverse pool of skilled recruits.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
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Ranked #8 for Checkmage! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmage!.
KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Checkmage!.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmage!.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Checkmage!.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Checkmage!.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Checkmage!.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Checkmage!.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmage!.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Checkmage!
- What games are most similar to Checkmage!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Checkmage! are Manahex, HeroStory, Noctiria.
- Who developed Checkmage!?
- Checkmage! was developed by posshydra.
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 Checkmage!.
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