Games like Chess of the Hidden Gates
If Chess of the Hidden Gates is your kind of game, the closest matches are Duoshift, Shanhai Exorcist: Yin-Yang Chronicles and Card Warrior — 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 Chess of the Hidden Gates: A roguelike deckbuilder where every card is a Chinese chess move. The world is a board; everything is a piece. Outmaneuver ancient spirits square by square—victory takes more than raw power. It takes position. Breach the Eight Gates. Play, or be taken.
Players who liked Chess of the Hidden Gates also play
Steam players who put hours into Chess of the Hidden Gates 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.
Duoshift
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Defend The Wall on a tactical 11x7 grid using your pair of battle vehicles. Outmaneuver waves of scavenged war machines, unleash game-breaking hacks and chain synergies. Draft, fight, and survive in this endlessly replayable tactical roguelite.
Shanhai Exorcist: Yin-Yang Chronicles
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
One card, two fates. Flip between Yin and Yang faces to change both cost and effect, read enemy intents, and turn defense, setup, and burst into one decisive sequence. Build around Sword, Five Phases, Summoning, or Karma in a Chinese-mythology roguelike deckbuilder.
Card Warrior
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Card Warrior is a wuxia roguelike card game combining martial arts and card mechanics. Play cards to strike, parry, counterattack, and strike relentlessly when you spot enemies’ flaws. Walk the path of a worrior. What kind of hero will you be?
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
Re:Night
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Re:Night is a strategy game that blends turn based tactics with roguelike deckbuilding. In each run, build your deck, plan your tactics, and experiment with countless 3-character team combinations. Journey to a mysterious town, break the endless cycle of night, and bring dawn back to the world.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Montabi
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
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!
Right and Down
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Chess of the Hidden Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
A deep roguelike and card game that is played using only two buttons: Right and Down! Choose your hero and explore randomly generated card dungeons, gather powerful artifacts to get new abilities, and fight against mighty enemies! Will you make it to level 50?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
No Results Found
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of the Hidden Gates.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Chess of the Hidden Gates
- What games are most similar to Chess of the Hidden Gates?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess of the Hidden Gates are Duoshift, Shanhai Exorcist: Yin-Yang Chronicles, Card Warrior.
- Who developed Chess of the Hidden Gates?
- Chess of the Hidden Gates was developed by AgentGameLab.
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 Chess of the Hidden Gates.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.