Games like Gambition
If Gambition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Top Check: A Chess Card Game, Cave Crusade and Zeitnot — 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 Gambition: A chess-inspired tactical roguelike where every battle becomes a puzzle of sacrifice and manipulation. Evolve chess pieces, build powerful armies, and turn clever sacrifices into devastating synergies.
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Top Check: A Chess Card Game
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Top pick for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Gambition.
Collect cards, build decks, and battle fierce opponents in Top Check, a roguelike deckbuilder and card game inspired by the classic game of chess. With many unique pieces and abilities, only the best strategists will emerge victorious. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
Cave Crusade
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gambition.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Zeitnot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gambition.
Chess you already know, rules you don't. Pieces have HP and gear. Shop between fights, stack gambits, roll the dice if you're feeling stupid. Lose the trial, lose the run.
Crownbreakers
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Ranked #4 for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gambition.
Tyrants keep the magical city of Cascade in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH! Crash into their districts and build your deck as you push forward. Use your champions and cards to pummel some demonic billionaires in this turn-based card-game brawler.
Kingster
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Ranked #5 for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gambition.
Classic strategy rules are being rewritten in roguelike chaos. As a Jester who has accidentally ascended the throne, you must think like a King to survive. Manipulate the battlefield, wield your unique powers, build your deck, and rewrite your fate against all odds in this ruthless dungeon.
Meet the Master
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Ranked #6 for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gambition.
A cute yet brutal tactical deckbuilder: Command your Squad and outsmart unique encounters to ultimately Meet the Master.
StrategySteam ↗Cards of the Abyss
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gambition.
Cards of the Abyss is a roguelike deckbuilder where movement is your only defense. Move on a grid, dodge enemy attacks, trigger countless chain-reactions and unleash overpowered card combos as you dive deeper into the Abyss.
Forge the Fates
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gambition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gambition.
Take deckbuilding to the next level. Transform your hand of cards into a tactical grid of runes. Plan, shift, and strike to unleash powerful combos and chain match-3 bonuses. Choose your hero, master their deck, and fight through deadly dungeons to face a mysterious dark overlord.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gambition.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gambition.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gambition.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gambition.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gambition.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gambition.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gambition.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Gambition
- What games are most similar to Gambition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gambition are Top Check: A Chess Card Game, Cave Crusade, Zeitnot.
- Who developed Gambition?
- Gambition was developed by EasternLamp.
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 Gambition.
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