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Tall Troll Games · 2023 · 82 % positive of 188

24 games that play like Dark Chess and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Ouroboros King, Wulin Chess and King of the Bridge.

Player tags

  • Chess
  • Strategy
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Puzzle
  • Turn-Based Tactics
  • Tabletop
  • Board Game
  • Time Travel

At a glance

What games like Dark Chess have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dark Chess: Strategy (21 of 24), Turn-Based Strategy (16) and Chess (13).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 7 of them after Dark Chess (2023).
  • Best rated by Steam players: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel (96 % positive of 8,199).
  • 3D Chess and Chess'Extra both play and look like Dark Chess.

By gameplay

Plays like Dark Chess

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Chess'Extra88 % positive of 190Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics
  2. King's Bounty: Dark Side73 % positive of 1,761Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Singleplayer
  3. Simply Chess74 % positive of 3,626Shared: Chess · Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy
  4. Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages58 % positive of 191Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Board Game
  5. Just Xiangqi86 % positive of 617Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Tabletop
  6. Gloomhaven83 % positive of 14,983Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics
  7. Warhammer 40,000: Regicide67 % positive of 1,895Shared: Chess · Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy
  8. Blackguards62 % positive of 3,745Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics
  9. Chess Ultra74 % positive of 2,135Shared: Chess · Strategy · Tabletop
  10. Black Legend65 % positive of 203Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics
  11. Solium Infernum87 % positive of 1,486Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Board Game
  12. Turnbound77 % positive of 504

By look

Looks like Dark Chess

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Dark Quest 283 % positive of 621
  2. Card Crawl76 % positive of 175
  3. Book of Demons79 % positive of 11,952
  4. DungeonTop81 % positive of 552
  5. Grace of Zordan56 % positive of 166
  6. Dungeon Rushers62 % positive of 1,218
  7. Fated Kingdom74 % positive of 301
  8. Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG92 % positive of 584
  9. Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics85 % positive of 2,418
  10. Chess'Extra88 % positive of 190
  11. HELLCARD85 % positive of 3,845
  12. The Succession of Changing Kings88 % positive of 327

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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