Games like Chards
If Chards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sans Issue, A Wizard-Chess Tournament and Dicey 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.
Get personalized picks →About Chards: Combines chess with card games with basically 0 RNG mechanic.
Players who liked Chards also play
Steam players who put hours into Chards 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.
Sans Issue
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
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.
A Wizard-Chess Tournament
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
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.
Dicey Chess
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
A chess game in which the throw of the dice decides how far you can move.
Crounds
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
Crounds is a fast-paced PvP chess roguelike. Choose a powerful King, draft game-breaking upgrades, and bend the traditional rules of chess to destroy your opponent! Synergize your chaotic upgrades to create your winning strategy!
Wardens
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chards.
A turn-based tactical board game with card battler elements. Contains sandbox elements for you to build your own units, craft your own abilities and set your own game rules with a fully integrated editor.
Culdcept The First
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chards.
The pinnacle of board game and card game fusion is back.
Ancient Duel
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
Ancient Duel is a free-to-play historical turn-based strategy card game. Build 40-card decks, combine ancient factions, position units and commanders, and outplay opponents in tactical 1v1 battles where timing, energy and formation matter.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chards at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
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!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chards.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chards.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
NERTS! Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chards.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chards.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chards.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chards.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chards.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
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Frequently asked about Chards
- How much does Chards cost?
- Chards is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Chards have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chards supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Chards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chards are Sans Issue, A Wizard-Chess Tournament, Dicey Chess.
- Who developed Chards?
- Chards was developed by Last Generation.
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 Chards.
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