Games like Crounds
If Crounds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess: The Lost Pieces, Lazy Chess and The Chess Variants Club — 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 Crounds: Crounds is a online PvP chess roguelike where you draft game breaking upgrades to create devastating combos and disrupt your opponents plans. After key points in the game players take turns to pick upgrades that define their strategy.
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Steam players who put hours into Crounds 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.
Chess: The Lost Pieces
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Top pick for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Lazy Chess
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Second-strongest match for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
The Chess Variants Club
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Third-strongest match for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
3D Chess Online
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Ranked #4 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
CHESS with LASERS
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Ranked #5 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Obliterate the enemy's king with your laser by strategically moving/rotating mirrors, portals and more in this mind-bending chess-like game. Challenge your friends or battle an AI (includes Level Editor)!
Tank General
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Ranked #6 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Tank General, a World War II-themed card game with unique gameplay mechanics, deep tactical combat, and an easy entry level. Build your deck, battle against humans and AI, complete campaigns and raids, and explore new cards and headquarters!
Usurper
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Ranked #7 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crounds.
A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where your King is your strongest weapon. Play cards from your deck to drop units onto the battlefield and checkmate your opponent. Build your Deck, Upgrade your Ruler, and Claim the Throne.
Undaunted Normandy
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Ranked #8 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crounds.
Play the acclaimed World War 2 deck-building game. Use your cards to seize the initiative, bolster your forces, or control your troops on the battlefield. You will face intense resistance, machine gun fire, and mortar bombardment, but a great commander can turn the situation to their advantage!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crounds.
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?
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crounds.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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 Crounds.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crounds.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crounds.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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 Crounds.
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!
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 Crounds.
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!
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Frequently asked about Crounds
- Does Crounds have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crounds supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Crounds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crounds are Chess: The Lost Pieces, Lazy Chess, The Chess Variants Club.
- Who developed Crounds?
- Crounds was developed by ZeroEight Studios.
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 Crounds.
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