Games like Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG
If Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG is your kind of game, the closest matches are Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel, Relic & Ruin and POKOR — 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.
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Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel
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Top pick for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
A solo rogue-lite combining deckbuilding and board tactics. Build a deck and play cards governed by movement and combat rules. Seize Magic Ore, manage resources, and face relentless foes. Lead allies across four territories, challenge the Infernal Citadel, and restore order to a shattered world!
Relic & Ruin
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Second-strongest match for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Master a tactical turn-based strategy game driven by deep synergies, summons, and unique spells. Adapt your team with unpredictable artifacts and abilities to conquer legendary heroes and gods, from prehistory to mythic Japan.
POKOR
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Third-strongest match for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
POKOR is a story-driven roguelike tactical turn-based card RPG. Players take on the role of Heart, commanding a deck of playing card soldiers to engage in turn-based battles against enemies as they venture deeper into a vast, pale, and ever-changing palace to uncover the truth and the true self.
Wishseeker
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Ranked #4 for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Wishseeker is a turn-based tactical roguelite where you lead a party of four Wishseekers into the ever-changing Hollow Vault. Master fast-paced grid-based combat, craft unique builds with skills and artifacts, and uncover the truth behind the corruption lurking beneath every expedition.
The Bell Echoes
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Ranked #5 for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
The Bell Echoes is a story-driven tactical roguelite. Fight alongside a cast of distinctive companions as you venture deeper into the Corrupted Lands, defeat powerful foes, collect Echoes and memory fragments, and uncover the truth behind the characters and the world.
Mystical Tactics
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Ranked #6 for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers in a mystical world. Train your heroes in fast-paced tactical battles, equip them with powerful items and lead them to repel the Dark Lord and his legions.
Re:Night
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Ranked #7 for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Re:Night is a strategy game that blends turn based tactics with roguelike deckbuilding. In each run, build your deck, plan your tactics, and experiment with countless 3-character team combinations. Journey to a mysterious town, break the endless cycle of night, and bring dawn back to the world.
Cell Command
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Ranked #8 for Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG
- What games are most similar to Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG are Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel, Relic & Ruin, POKOR.
- Who developed Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG?
- Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG was developed by Team Checkmate.
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