Games like Mortal Chess
If Mortal Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unending War: Grand-Strategy Chess, Ragnarok Chess and Sente — 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 Mortal Chess: Every piece is living on borrowed time. Mortal Chess is a single-player chess variant where your pieces has a visible life countdown. Expired pieces leave behind coins you can collect to buy new pieces during the game for a whole new spin on the classic formula
Players who liked Mortal Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Mortal Chess 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.
Unending War: Grand-Strategy Chess
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Top pick for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Chess. The Unending War. But why are these battles being fought? And what really happens when two knights do battle? Enter the world of Chess. Where Seven Gods vie for power and worship in a never-ending war!
Ragnarok Chess
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Second-strongest match for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Mortal Chess.
The classical game of chess... now played in the beautiful Viking lands! Play chess against your friends or versus the computer, unlock new scenarios and chess pieces, and prove yourself to be the most fearless Viking alive!
Sente
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Sente is a strategic board game where every player moves at the same time. Your victory isn't about acting first, it's about thinking ahead. Inspired by the clarity of Chess and Go, with a wholly original ruleset and support for 1–6 players.
Perfect Chess
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Ranked #4 for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Chess Designed Specially for GAMERS! Integrated with the XZ Tutorial, which teaches you everything to play a competitive and successful game Have a LESS Boring and More Dynamic and Competitive Game Awaken the "Grand Master" in you today!
Paper Flags
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Ranked #5 for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.
Crimson Banner: War of Liberation
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Ranked #6 for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Ready, comrades? In 'Crimson Banner: War of Liberation', command the PLA, strike the Kuomintang reactionaries, and liberate all China! Turn-based hex wargame, experience every battle!
Frontline: World War II
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Ranked #7 for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Immerse yourself in the captivating atmosphere of World War II, as you meticulously plan your moves and adapt to the ever-changing battlefield. With a wide array of units and tactical options at your disposal, success is determined by your strategic prowess and adaptability.
Civil War: Battle of Petersburg
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Ranked #8 for Mortal Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Crush the Confederates near Petersburg and Richmond in 1864. Bring peace to a nation divided.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
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 with Mortal Chess.
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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Other recommendable Steam games by Koding Nights, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ragnarok Survivors: Valhalla
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Another title from Koding Nights, the studio behind Mortal Chess.
Prove to Odin that you deserve a place at the table in the afterlife and survive Ragnarok. Or die, and leave your wordly belongings to the next Viking. Unlock new characters and buy new weapons and abilities to improve your chance of survival.
Hellmet: Seven Circles Down
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Another title from Koding Nights, the studio behind Mortal Chess.
Descend the seven circles of hell in a chaotic twin-stick roguelite where your helmet is your weapon. Swap Hellmets for new powers, headbutt demons into paste, shred hordes with bullets and blades, and crush brutal bosses on your path to Hellfather himself.
Block Sprawl
WHY THIS
Another title from Koding Nights, the studio behind Mortal Chess. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
A spatial puzzle strategy game where cards create building shapes. Fit them into tight, constrained grids, expand your city, and use cards to bend rules and unlock actions. Min-max adjacency, terrain, and line bonuses to meet ever-increasing city council demands and engineer massive combo turns.
Die and Decay
WHY THIS
Another title from Koding Nights, the studio behind Mortal Chess. Shares Strategy with Mortal Chess.
Die and Decay is a medieval horror dice-placement game where every die must serve two masters: your Hero and the City. Keep, reroll, convert, and assign an expanding dice pool across six houses to forge attacks, raise defenses, gather resources, and unlock increasingly powerful abilities.
Frequently asked about Mortal Chess
- What games are most similar to Mortal Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mortal Chess are Unending War: Grand-Strategy Chess, Ragnarok Chess, Sente.
- Who developed Mortal Chess?
- Mortal Chess was developed by Koding Nights.
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 Mortal Chess.
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