Games like Pocket Pawns
If Pocket Pawns is your kind of game, the closest matches are HUEMON, Crystal Project and Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan — 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 Pocket Pawns: Catch wild chess pieces by solving checkmate puzzles, build your team and explore nine towns in a chess RPG. Collect 272 pieces and 589 boards, learn with 202 lessons, and challenge six Club Masters on your way to the World Championship.
Players who liked Pocket Pawns also play
Steam players who put hours into Pocket Pawns 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.
HUEMON
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Top pick for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Discover and collect HUEMON, and lead your full team into tactical turn-based battles. Journey through a world powered by color, experiment with team compositions, positioning, and synergies to overcome every challenge.
Crystal Project
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Second-strongest match for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
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Third-strongest match for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
Siralim Ultimate
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Ranked #4 for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Siralim Ultimate is a monster-catching, dungeon-crawling RPG with a ridiculous amount of depth. Summon over 1200 different creatures and travel through randomly generated dungeons to acquire resources, new creatures, and loot.
Stories of Somnia
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Ranked #5 for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
Stories of Somnia is an exploration-first JRPG with the bones of a Metroidvania. Use spells to grapple across gaps, change the rules of combat, and reshape the world around you. Collect memory-born companions called Dreamkin and uncover a story about grief, time, and the courage to rest.
Critterrupters
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Ranked #6 for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
Choose your new buddy and set off on a Critterbyte adventure on Nikkolo Island! Capture Critterbytes by fulfilling their conditions and master time based battles by interrupting your opponent's turns. Assemble your team to challenge the Island's Clubs and gain new buddy abilities to explore further.
Fantorob
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Ranked #7 for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Pocket Pawns.
Fantorob is a futuristic take on classic monster-taming genre. Build robots and fight against your opponents to collect components and upgrade your team in this thrilling turn-based combat RPG with brain-twisting puzzles. Join the journey to become the greatest robot master!
For The King II
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Ranked #8 for Pocket Pawns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pocket Pawns.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pocket Pawns.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Pawns.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
For The King II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pocket Pawns.
Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?
Frequently asked about Pocket Pawns
- What games are most similar to Pocket Pawns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pocket Pawns are HUEMON, Crystal Project, Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan.
- Who developed Pocket Pawns?
- Pocket Pawns was developed by Pocket Pawn Games.
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 Pocket Pawns.
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