The Chess Zone

Games about chess, chess variants, or strategy built from chess-like pieces.

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Cat Chess - Players say: Play standard chess with animated cat pieces, facing bots or friends in campaign, local, and online matches. Players like: Cat Animations · Cute Art Style · Chess For Beginners ·

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Play the ancient and thrilling game of Chess but with... cats! Lead your furry friends to the Purrfect battle of brains and whiskers!

Jul 14, 2026

87% 👍

of 490

$6.99 on Steam More Detail

Master of Chess - Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide. Become World Champion in the first and only chess career simulator!

Sep 9, 2025

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of 300

Turn-Based Tactics · Sports · Education · Sandbox · Management · Board Game · Tabletop · Turn-Based Strategy · Character Customization · Strategy · 2D · Turn-Based Combat · Simulation · Colorful · Hand-drawn

$19.99 on Steam More Detail

Passant: A Chess Roguelike - Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.

Aug 11, 2025

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Strategy · Chess · Casual · Roguelike · Turn-Based Strategy · Singleplayer · Roguelite · Board Game · Turn-Based Tactics · Logic · Indie · 3D · Deckbuilding · Choices Matter · PvE

$11.99 on Steam More Detail

Hyper Chess - There are NO TURNS in this wild version of Chess! Pieces move across the board in real-time, so you'll need to think fast to protect your King!

Aug 6, 2025

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Strategy · Chess · Action · Board Game · Arcade · Multiplayer · PvP · Local Multiplayer · 3D · Cute · 1980s · Old School · Retro · Tabletop · Real Time Tactics

$2.99 on Steam More Detail

Chess Ultimate - Chess just got an upgrade! Chess Ultimate, where precision strategy meets colorful chaos. Build your team from a roster of unique, quirky characters to defend your King while plotting your opponent’s downfall. Easy to pick up, endlessly fun to master, and a fresh take on the classic game of wits.

Oct 6, 2024

88% 👍

of 304

Strategy · Tabletop · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · 3D · Cartoon · Colorful · Cute · Stylized · Top-Down · Multiplayer · Fantasy · Chess · PvP · Singleplayer

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Feud - Feud is a turn-based strategy game. Swap pieces on a four-by-four grid to isolate your opponent's pieces, or go straight for their King. Hone your skills against three AI characters with distinct play-styles, then challenge your friends online or on the same screen.

Feb 23, 2024

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Free to Play · Indie · Board Game · Turn-Based Tactics · Abstract · Asynchronous Multiplayer · Strategy · Puzzle · Turn-Based · Local Multiplayer · Early Access · Turn-Based Strategy · Multiplayer · Tabletop · Historical

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Chessarama - Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their goals and themes. Solve challenges, unlock collectibles, and compete against each other on the leaderboards. Welcome to Chessarama!

Dec 5, 2023

88% 👍

of 180

Strategy · Casual · Puzzle · Turn-Based Strategy · Tabletop · Simulation · Relaxing · Psychological Horror · Colorful · Turn-Based Tactics · Family Friendly · Difficult · Cozy · Atmospheric · Board Game

$14.99 on Steam More Detail

Checkmate Showdown - Chess meets Fighting games. Crush your opponents in the arena and on the chessboard in this online multiplayer competitive tactical fighting game that mixes the strategic elegance of Chess with the fast-paced execution of fighting games.

Nov 15, 2023

80% 👍

of 239

Fighting · Competitive · PvP · Local Multiplayer · Action · Multiplayer · Chess · 2D · Combat · 2D Fighter · Controller · Board Game · Wrestling · Minimalist · Stylized

$19.99 -80% $3.99 on Steam More Detail

Chess Survivors - Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies. Combine abilities, upgrades, and relics to create game-breaking builds. Think fast, die, learn, repeat!

Aug 31, 2023

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Roguelite · Bullet Hell · Chess · Real Time Tactics · Action Roguelike · Perma Death · Action RPG · Roguelike · Strategy · RPG · 2D · Top-Down · Turn-Based Combat · Procedural Generation · Action

$4.99 on Steam More Detail

Dark Chess - THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.

Feb 28, 2023

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Chess · Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Puzzle · Turn-Based Tactics · Tabletop · Board Game · Time Travel · Singleplayer · Dark Fantasy · Casual · Dark · 2D · Artificial Intelligence · Turn-Based Combat

$12.99 -60% $5.19 on Steam More Detail

Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.

Chess Ultra - Players say: Play classic chess against adjustable AI or other players, solve tactical puzzles, revisit historic matches, and move pieces in VR. Players like: Detailed 3D Presentation · Chess Puzzles · Historic Match Challenges ·

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Gambonanza is a tactical roguelike that sets chess pieces on a tiny board. Forget traditional chess and embrace the chaos of breaking the balance! Spend your money on rule-bending upgrades, board tiles and pieces. Experiment with illegal combinations and face off against iconic bosses!

May 1, 2026

76% 👍

of 1.7k

Roguelike Deckbuilder · Chess · Turn-Based Strategy · Replay Value · Arcade · Singleplayer · Board Game · Strategy · Pixel Graphics · Roguelike · Deckbuilding · Roguelite · Difficult · 2D · Casual

$14.99 -35% $9.74 on Steam More Detail

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Chessformer - Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.

Jan 18, 2022

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Chess · Puzzle · Difficult · Board Game · Strategy · 2D · Relaxing · Casual · Minimalist · Logic · Grid-Based Movement · Singleplayer · Mouse Only · Short

$4.99 on Steam More Detail

Chessplosion - Chessplosion is an arcade action puzzle game where you drop chess piece bombs to create chain reactions and trap opponents. Defeat enemies and bosses in Adventure Mode and the roguelike-inspired Dungeon Mode, break targets with limited bombs in Puzzle Mode, or fight friends and AI in Battle Mode.

Sep 21, 2021

96% 👍

of 154

Arcade · Pixel Graphics · Top-Down · Multiplayer · Chess · Action Roguelike · Tabletop · Roguelike · Retro · Action · Roguelite · 2D · Colorful · Puzzle · Singleplayer

$11.99 on Steam More Detail

3D Math - Ultra - Mathematic Ultra - is both simple and complex challenges!

Jun 16, 2020

93% 👍

of 231

Casual · Indie · Simulation · Sports · Strategy · Logic · Tutorial · Puzzle · Singleplayer · Experimental · Competitive · Education · Difficult · Chess · Tabletop

$4.99 on Steam More Detail

Miracle Sudoku - Miracle Sudoku features beautiful puzzles that at first glance look impossible to solve!! Indeed, some of our Miracle puzzles have as few as two givens digits (!) but you will find them all to be solvable with a bit of clever logic!

Aug 13, 2020

93% 👍

of 178

Casual · Puzzle · Board Game · 2D · Word Game · Logic · Minimalist · Singleplayer · Indie · Strategy · Chess

$4.99 on Steam More Detail

Sudoku Zenkai / 数独全卡 - Sudoku Zenkai is a game for everyone, from beginning to advanced players. It brings a new dimension to sudoku - you can solve puzzles with your friends, wherever they are! You can start a new puzzle with a friend or call one over to help when you get stuck.

Apr 2, 2018

91% 👍

of 213

Logic · Solitaire · Online Co-Op · Chess · Casual · Difficult · Relaxing · Minimalist · Point & Click · Tabletop · 2D · Strategy · Education · Text-Based · Linear

$3.99 on Steam More Detail

Chess Brain - Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!

Sep 8, 2020

90% 👍

of 164

Chess · Puzzle · Strategy · Board Game · Minimalist · Sokoban · Logic · Programming · Grid-Based Movement · Relaxing · Point & Click · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Strategy · Tabletop · Indie

$2.99 on Steam More Detail

Khet 2.0 - Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...