Games like Dungeon Chess
If Dungeon Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forsworn, Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive and Lootbound — 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 Dungeon Chess: Dungeon Chess is a turn-based strategy game with roguelike elements where the setting simulates a chessboard.
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Forsworn
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Top pick for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Chess.
Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.
Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive
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Second-strongest match for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Chess.
A tactical roguelike on a 7×7 grid. Absorb enemies, steal their abilities, and adapt your build from over 250 programs. Every run reshapes the threats against you. Permadeath. No negotiations.
Lootbound
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Third-strongest match for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Chess.
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
Depths of Providence
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Ranked #4 for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dungeon Chess.
Depths of Providence is a turn-based roguelike JRPG through 100 procedurally generated floors. Your party enters at level 1 with empty pockets. Fight down through instant-death depths and escape with rare loot before you lose it all. Bank blue-chest relics forever and climb the daily leaderboard.
Ironwake
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Ranked #5 for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Chess.
A gothic turn-based roguelite with a deep customization system via equipment, ability trees, and pet development. Become a keeper of the Ironwake gates. it. Raise a creature from an egg to adulthood. Descend ever-shifting dungeons for legendary loot. Grow your relationships with the town and ascend.
Shell of the coward
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Ranked #6 for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dungeon Chess.
Shell of the Coward is a turn-based roguelike/RPG where you must escort the Anathema you've sworn to protect through a perilous dungeon without ever looking back.
Roguefort
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Ranked #7 for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dungeon Chess.
An open-world roguelike RPG set in a living sandbox where cheese is the source of all magic and power. Explore a deeply simulated world, join guilds, raid dungeons, build a colony, sail the seas, craft and wield powerful magic cheese, and shape the fate of the Rind Wars with every turn.
All Who Wander
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Ranked #8 for Dungeon Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Chess.
All Who Wander is a traditional roguelike with fast-paced, turn-based combat. Choose from 15 unique heroes and embark on a 30 day journey to defeat a powerful monster. Explore diverse biomes, master 100+ abilities, discover rare items, and recruit companions to survive a world that's new every run.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Chess.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dungeon Chess.
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.
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 Dungeon Chess.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Chess.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dungeon Chess.
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 Indie and Casual with Dungeon Chess.
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. Shares Indie and RPG with Dungeon Chess.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dungeon Chess.
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!
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Frequently asked about Dungeon Chess
- What games are most similar to Dungeon Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dungeon Chess are Forsworn, Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive, Lootbound.
- Who developed Dungeon Chess?
- Dungeon Chess was developed by Higher Dreams.
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