Single-player games like Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Dead Market
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
A card game about debt. Win two of three rounds — but every advantage is bought on credit, and the Ledger beside the board is checked on every single turn. Five factions, 247 cards, and a market that will happily sell you something you cannot afford.
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DEATHMATE
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
DEATHMATE is a chess-themed roguelike deckbuilder. Build an army of pieces, stack a deck full of moves, and battle your way across the map towards the Grim Reaper.
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Hellmate
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
A DECK-BUILDING ROGUELIKE CHESS game. Choose chess set, build deck as you go, bring the enemy king’s HP to 0 in as few turns, solve dilemma cases. Each run has 7 randomly generated hell floors, themed around the 7 deadly sins.
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Empire in Decay
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
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天雨粟
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
Break glyphs into radicals, compose them into Chinese characters, and cast every word as a card. An ink-wash roguelike deckbuilder: five script styles, a three-act campaign, hanging characters that live between turns, and verse-linked combos against demons born from corrupted ink.
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Silent Mainland
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
Silent Mainland is a Roguelike deck-builder mixing positioning and board tactics on a 5×12 battlefield. Every card is a life-or-death choice. As monster waves surge like a tide, only sharp positioning and smart deckbuilding carve a path to survival.
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Hell Deck
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
Collect units and build powerful synergies on a restricted grid in Hell Deck, a dark roguelike deckbuilder defense game. Construct your own bizarre, twisted ecosystem through a brutal cycle of predation and sacrifice, and defend hell from the holy swarm
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Montabi
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
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Sam, We Talked About This
Single-player alternative to Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hellmate - Chess Deck Builder.
Every sentence, image and video on the internet will feed Sam's bottomless hunger! Train your models, grow your subscribers, buy new hardware and scrape even more data, all to build a super-duper artificial intelligence and leave every rival behind.