Single-player games like Chess: Apex
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Chess: Apex, 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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Space Imperia 4X
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Chess: Apex.
A faithful digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game Space Empires 4X by GMT Games, beloved by wargamers for almost two decades. Command the rise of your civilization and the fall of others, all in one to two hours.
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Abalon Arena: Multiplayer Card Tactics
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Cards, tactics and mutant squirrels! Enter the arena and compete head to head, play cooperatively or go it alone to defeat increasingly challenging onslaughts of enemies in a cunning game of wits set in the fantastical world of Abalon.
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Aegis Of Kings
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Chess: Apex.
Lead your kingdom to victory in this sandbox grand strategy RPG. Command heroes and monsters, capture castles, and customize your forces to your needs. Fight for the Aegis solo, join friends in co-op, or face rivals head-to-head.
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Tumble Tavern
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
A push-your-luck dice game where one throw can take everything. Build a six-die loadout, carry three runestones and read the rival across the table. Bank too early and you lose the race. Bank too late and you lose the lot.
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Pawn'd Chess
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Play, study, and improve at your own pace in a chess trainer with human-like, skill-matched AI, full FEN tools, local hotseat, and ranked play or pressure-free practice.
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Gridhammer
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Gridhammer is a tactical plate battler where two players draft from one shared pool of 45 plates. Place plates on a grid, capture by matching higher corner values, and chain cascading flips. Every plate you draft is one your opponent loses.
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Ashbane
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Chess: Apex.
Ashbane is a turn-based tactics RPG built around expeditions. Recruit Freeblades, grow your roster, and deploy a warband to accept paid jobs or launch your own raids. Choose your path, push deeper, and bear the cost.
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Efemeris - DTDA Games
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Efemeris is an strategy boardgame dedicated to 2 players.
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SCP-479: Shadows of the Mind
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
You are a Class D personnel on an experimental mission for the Foundation to investigate SCP-479. The facility is linked to anomalies affecting the human psyche, gradually driving them insane. Please remember to take your pills.
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Inferno Pathways
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
Descend into the abandoned metro in Inferno Pathways, a first-person psychological horror game. Navigate dark tunnels, solve puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Confront your deepest fears and piece together the haunting story of Mike Collins. Can you escape the darkness?
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Monolith: Dark Matter
Single-player alternative to Chess: Apex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
A round-based FPS for 1–4 players set inside the Monolith — a brutalist complex shaped by living black matter. Fight escalating waves of its marionettes, earn points to unlock new sectors and build your arsenal, and uncover the route to a final encounter.