Games like Crounds
If Crounds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Je Di Bo, A Wizard-Chess Tournament and Sans Issue — 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 fast-paced PvP chess roguelike. Choose a powerful King, draft game-breaking upgrades, and bend the traditional rules of chess to destroy your opponent! Synergize your chaotic upgrades to create your winning strategy!
Players who liked Crounds also play
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?
A Wizard-Chess Tournament
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Second-strongest match for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Chess, but with wizards. Every piece has HP and Attack and spell cards bend the rules. Outplay a friend in hotseat, over LAN, or online and climb the leaderboard.
Sans Issue
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Third-strongest match for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Sans Issue is a 2D game mixing chess and card-deck building. Use cards to summon new pieces, move your pieces in new ways, and change the board's terrain. Earn new cards via the campaign, create custom decks using the deckbuilder, and play against your friends both locally and over Steam.
Dice chess
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Ranked #4 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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Ranked #5 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,
Checkmate Heroines
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Ranked #6 for Crounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crounds.
Anime arrives to chess! And with new technology! Improve your skills with the game analysis tool at no extra cost, and test them against players around the globe and even your friends. Including those who don’t own the game! May your kingdom thrive!
Lazy Chess
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Ranked #7 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.
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!
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crounds.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.
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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, A Wizard-Chess Tournament, Sans Issue.
- 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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