Games like Chesscent
If Chesscent is your kind of game, the closest matches are PokerField, Portucale Sword and Subtlety and Neverwood — 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 Chesscent: Chesscent is a pixel art turn-based strategy roguelite that blends classic chess with rule-breaking cards. Face impossible rivals, embrace defeat, and unlock new permanent abilities to change the outcome of the match.
Players who liked Chesscent also play
Steam players who put hours into Chesscent 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.
PokerField
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Top pick for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chesscent.
A turn-based tactical duel with battlefield and classic card deck. Place a card and it reads two ways at once — poker figures and blackjack-21 lines. Build combos, capture enemy cells, and drag one shared pendulum to your edge to win. Solo campaign, hotseat, or ranked online 1v1.
Portucale Sword and Subtlety
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chesscent.
Portucale is a strategic card-battler set in a brutal new kingdom. Build prestige, fortify borders, and weaponize treachery with the unique Cheat mechanic. In this tense psychological duel, your walls generate gold while you dismantle your rival’s legacy through sword and subtlety.
Neverwood
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesscent.
You journey through the haunted forest of Neverwood in board game orchestrated by a dark and mysterious game master named Bella. The game blends grid based combat with deckbuilding roguelike mechanics in a dreary yet somewhat cozy Halloween themed atmosphere.
Paper Flags
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chesscent.
A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.
Chesstris
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Ranked #5 for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesscent.
Chess meets Tetris in a series of handcrafted puzzles. Drop chess pieces to checkmate rival kings while avoiding checkmating your own. Become a beloved champion or a despised victor, find true love or ruin friendships. In Chesstris, your choices in and out of puzzles shape your destiny!
StrategySteam ↗Radial Chess
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Ranked #6 for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesscent.
Radial Chess is a chess game that preserves all traditional rules and mechanics while reimagining the board as a radial spatial structure, where players compete against AI or locally in a transformed geometric interpretation of classic chess.
Dice chess
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Ranked #7 for Chesscent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chesscent.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chesscent at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Chesscent on Steam right now.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Chesscent on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chesscent.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Chesscent on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chesscent.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~58% under Chesscent on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chesscent.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Chesscent on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chesscent.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Chesscent on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chesscent.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chesscent on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chesscent.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chesscent.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Casual with Chesscent.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chesscent.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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Frequently asked about Chesscent
- How much does Chesscent cost?
- Chesscent is listed on Steam at 7.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chesscent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chesscent are PokerField, Portucale Sword and Subtlety, Neverwood.
- Who developed Chesscent?
- Chesscent was developed by Alex did it.
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 Chesscent.
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