Games like Just Chessing Around
If Just Chessing Around is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Only Heroes, Cardslinger and Rogue Drone Hunter — 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 Just Chessing Around: Build a chess army. Break the rules. Collect buffs that make your pieces addictively OP, with knights that roam the entire board, rooks that smash through anything. Use items like bombs or potions to cause even more chaos. No king to checkmate. Just enemies to destroy.
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Steam players who put hours into Just Chessing Around 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.
My Only Heroes
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Top pick for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just Chessing Around.
Assemble your squad in My Only Heroes, a roguelite deckbuilder where your deck is your Heroes. Start each run with random recruits, then brave shifting dungeons to unlock legendary Main Heroes with superior stats. Stack equipment for awesome combos and survive to reach Mayhem Mountain!
Cardslinger
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Second-strongest match for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just Chessing Around.
Cardslinger is a singleplayer, weird west, roguelite where you fight your way through the harsh Frontier to cut out the source of the corruption; the Devil himself. Pick a team of two Outlaws both cursed by the devil. Don trinkets and gather powerful cards to perfect the build and break the curse.
Rogue Drone Hunter
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Third-strongest match for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just Chessing Around.
Explore high-tech ruins with your drone partner in this action deckbuilder. It mixes fast combat with strategic card play. Collect lost tech to build a strong deck of skills. Plan and use card combos to uncover the secrets beyond the neon city of Elysia.
Dicealot
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Ranked #4 for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just Chessing Around.
Discover a high-stakes roguelike dice-builder where every roll is a risk, every risk is a thrill, and every thrill teeters between triumph and disaster. Set in charmingly chaotic Camelot, chance collides with strategy, mastery dances with madness, and one single roll can rewrite your fate.
Slot & Dungeons
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Ranked #5 for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just Chessing Around.
A deck-building roguelite where the reels decide your fate! Enemies and items appear based on the spin of the slot. Master luck and strategy to conquer the dungeon!
Shumo: Prologue
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Ranked #6 for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Just Chessing Around.
"Shumo" is a turn-based combat game with elements of roguelike and deck-building. You can experience the prologue content for free.
Die For The Lich
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Ranked #7 for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Just Chessing Around.
Gather magical dice, adapt your gear and venture through a land haunted by folklore creatures.
Cobalt Core
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Ranked #8 for Just Chessing Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just Chessing Around.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Chessing Around.
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 Action and Indie with Just Chessing Around.
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 Just Chessing Around.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Just Chessing Around.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Just Chessing Around.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Just Chessing Around.
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.
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Frequently asked about Just Chessing Around
- What games are most similar to Just Chessing Around?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Just Chessing Around are My Only Heroes, Cardslinger, Rogue Drone Hunter.
- Who developed Just Chessing Around?
- Just Chessing Around was developed by Cabbage Club.
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 Just Chessing Around.
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