Games like Shattered Chess
If Shattered Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hardcourt Balls, King for a Knight and Chess Tools — 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 Shattered Chess: Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
Players who liked Shattered Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Shattered Chess 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.
Hardcourt Balls
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Top pick for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Shattered Chess.
Hardcourt Balls is a fast-paced, turn-based adaptation of the real-world game of tennis. With just a few simple rules, the roll of dice, and tactical use of skill "cards", it manages to capture some of the nuances and excitement that make tennis such a great sport.
King for a Knight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Chess.
Be the unsung hero of chess board -BE THE KNIGHT! A fun -fast paced chess knight puzzle adventure with over 100 levels to stomp your way through!
Chess Tools
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Shattered Chess.
Learn chess by reliving the greatest games of all time. Train with 70+ tutorials, 150+ puzzles, and interactive quests where you guess the moves of legends like Tal, Fischer, and Carlsen. Includes variants, analysis tools, and 2D/3D boards.
Gambition
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Ranked #4 for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Chess.
A roguelike chess strategy game where chess pieces evolve into powerful forms, gaining unique abilities and devastating synergies across ever-changing boards.
Desta: The Memories Between
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Ranked #5 for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Shattered Chess.
Fall into a beautiful and puzzling dreamworld. Find your friends, unlock spectacular abilities and overcome the odds in a surreal tactical dodgeball adventure to uncover the mysteries of a broken world from the creators of Monument Valley.
ZrOth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shattered Chess.
Use your resources to capture locations in this management game. Each location will give you different resources and effects. Create your own build to gather as many resources as possible to pay ZrOth’s tribute, but be careful, he’s getting greedier and greedier.
StrategySteam ↗Faryloopa
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Ranked #7 for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Chess.
Build the board. Play the cards. Roll the dice. Faryloopa is a roguelike deckbuilder meets boardbuilder where every run is a new layout, new synergies, and bigger scores to chase.
Empire at Risk
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Ranked #8 for Shattered Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Chess.
Expand, conquer and dominate your rivals on dynamic hex maps. Capture regions, secure supply and adapt to every seed. Battle friends or AI in solo and multiplayer matches with up to 8 players and climb the leaderboard.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shattered Chess at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
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
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Priced ~63% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered 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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shattered Chess.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered 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!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shattered Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shattered Chess.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Chess.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shattered Chess.
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 Shattered Chess.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Shattered Chess
- How much does Shattered Chess cost?
- Shattered Chess is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shattered Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shattered Chess are Hardcourt Balls, King for a Knight, Chess Tools.
- Who developed Shattered Chess?
- Shattered Chess was developed by Arti Works and published by Arti Works, EasyPizza.
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 Shattered Chess.
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