Games like Crounds
If Crounds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Je Di Bo, Dice chess and Chess: The Lost Pieces — 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.
Je Di Bo
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Top pick for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crounds.
Je Di Bo is a chaotic, deep turn-based card strategy where chess-like logic meets unpredictability. Move pieces, upgrade their ranks, and dominate the board. But beware: every 7 turns, Karma rolls the dice and completely changes the rules of engagement. Can you outsmart the chaos?
Dice 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.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Chess: The Lost Pieces
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Third-strongest match 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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Ranked #4 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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Ranked #5 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 #6 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 #7 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)!
Rookspell
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Ranked #8 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Rookspell is a roguelike chess deckbuilder where tactical positioning meets chaotic card play. Outmaneuver your opponents with grandmaster strategy or break the board entirely with powerful card combos. Win through pure skill or draft an unstoppable play. The choice is yours!
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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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 Je Di Bo, Dice chess, Chess: The Lost Pieces.
- 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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