Games like rook
If rook is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seferia Matrix, SlotsNStocks and Scoundrel — 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 rook: rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.
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Steam players who put hours into rook 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.
Seferia Matrix
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Top pick for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Roll dice, match combos, cast devastating spells. A roguelite deckbuilder where Yahtzee meets arcane magic — collect 200+ relics, engrave powerful sigils, and master three schools of sorcery.
SlotsNStocks
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Second-strongest match for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
Rig the market in this deckbuilding slot machine roguelike. Draft hundreds of bearish and bullish symbols into your trading machine, collect powerful relics, and manipulate the odds to hit grueling weekly margin calls and avoid going bust.
Scoundrel
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Third-strongest match for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
A solo card roguelite where a single shuffled deck is the entire dungeon. Draw four, face three, survive the deck. Fast runs, brutal choices, just one more.
Oh!Ware
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Ranked #4 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Place marbles into pits, chaining their movement across a living board to trigger captures and effects. Every pit is a choice, and every marble a desperate prayer
StrategySteam ↗RentPoly
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Ranked #5 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
RentPoly is a roguelike real-estate board game. Build your own real estate empire, squeeze rent from tenants, and become a billionaire!
DEAD SPIN
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Ranked #6 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Gamble your way through a deadly abandoned casino in this dark roguelite deckbuilder. Discover broken synergies, outscore your captors, and spin for your freedom.
StrategySteam ↗Conquest Tactics : Realm of Sin
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Ranked #8 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Conquest Tactics: Realm of Sin is a dark-fantasy roguelite tactics game. Command your army and engage in turn-based battles on a hex-based board as you advance step by step to conquer a land shrouded in sin. Your choices carry weight: will you restore order… or allow eternal darkness to reign?
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Magic Archery
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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 rook.
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.
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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 Casual with rook.
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!
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about rook
- What games are most similar to rook?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside rook are Seferia Matrix, SlotsNStocks, Scoundrel.
- Who developed rook?
- rook was developed by gregory hodson and published by updog.
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