Games like Simply Chess

A small transparent chessboard that sits in the corner of your desktop. Solve a puzzle when you have a minute, or play a game against Stockfish. While you work, the board fades and stays out of the way. Difficulty adjusts on its own.

Chess, but you build the army yourself: pieces that evolve, unicorns, catapults that hurl your own men. Then you take it online, one on one or even two on two. Roguelite.

Settle a kingdom, roll for resources, and build an army with real chess movesets on a hex battlefield. ChessTan fuses Catan-style economy with chess-style combat for 2-4 players — outbuild your rivals, then checkmate the last Nexus standing. Play locally, online with friends, or through Steam.

Shatranj Puzzles is a tactical chess puzzle game featuring 10,000 unique puzzles, 3 AI difficulty levels, and local 2-player mode. Solve challenging positions, improve your tactical vision, and progress through a massive chess puzzle experience at your own pace.

It’s Yut Nori—but you can throw your pieces, summon a demon god, and even poop your way to victory! A 2–4 player online competitive game featuring 50 unique augments.

Magic Quiz is a fast-paced, competitive multiplayer quiz game for 2–6 players. Knowledge alone isn’t enough here—you’ll need strategy, cunning, and a pinch of chaos magic to outwit your opponents.

Learn 19×19 Go (Weiqi / Baduk) with Kansai Ki-in pro Hibiki Mishima and amateur 5-dan assistant Kanon Uemura. Portrait lectures, AI challenge matches, problems, joseki, and proverbs — in a colorful, game-like package.

This game is focused on turn based tactical combats. The complexity of the game comes from having to carefully manage your various formations in order to defeat your enemies. Carefully plan your actions to win the battle.

漢字1文字ずつの牌を組み合わせて、実在する市町村の名前をつくる麻雀です。「大」と「阪」で大阪市。組み合わせによって606の市町村名をつくることができ、面子の代わりに市町村を揃えて和了します。連泊、地一色、断本州といった市町村麻雀ならではの役があります。ひとりで遊べる4人打ち、東風戦と東南戦に対応。

Stack blocks on an unstable semicircular base in a turn-based physics game where every material, angle, and tap matters. Build alone, pass the controls in local matches for 2–4 players, or face a rival online through Steam.

Bastards is an online, fast-paced and tactical card game for 2-8 players. Take turns playing cards from low to high: 3 is the lowest, 2 the highest. Be first to get rid of your hand to become President. Finish last, and you’ll become the Bastard!

Classic tabletop games meet roguelite elements and card-based combat. Dice rolls, fate cards, deadly encounters, minigames, and countless unknowns await you in this strange adventure.

Rome, 1492. The Holy Father is dead. The conclave has been convened. Can you seize the Throne of St. Peter for yourself?

Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game pitting hundreds of players against one another. Over one million nuke each other every month.

The blackjack roguelike. Blakjalatro is a squash and not so brilliant deck builder where you can play illegal blackjack movements, discover wild cards that will alter your games, and activate multi combos that may increase your cortisol and get your dopamine feel a lil less dead.

Meowtsky is a puzzle game inspired by the classic Klotski. Slide pieces to guide your cat to the goal in the fewest moves possible, with 120 classic levels and an addictive Endless mode.

Arena combat meets mercenary club management. Recruit from a dynamic market, build your squad, and compete season after season in leagues and cups.