Single-player games like Checkmate!
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Checkmate!, 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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Color Guardian
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
In Color Guardian, you must memorize a sequence of colors that will be shown and make the highest score possible.
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Gallows Choice
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
A classic for great fun, a virtual and improved gallows game!
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
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The Jackbox Party Pack 6
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
It’s the wildest Party Pack yet, with the absurd deathmatch Trivia Murder Party 2, the weird word circus Dictionarium, the hidden identity game Push The Button, the comedy contest Joke Boat and the offbeat personality test Role Models.
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Tooth and Tail
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
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Tumblestone
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
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PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!
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ShellShock Live
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.
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Falling Blocks
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Score and survive!
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Total 15
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmate!.
Challenge your problem-solving skills in this game.
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Twenty One
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Twenty-one is a famous card game where you must go measuring and buying cards who get closer to 21 wins, however, if you pass 21, you lost!
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BBlocks
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
Join a few blocks here, a little there and watch the blocks unite like magic.
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Snakest
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmate!.
You objective is eat all the "foods" inside the camp.
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Truco
Single-player alternative to Checkmate! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate!.
A fun card game where you must use your skills to win.