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by Minimol Games
Chess Knights: Shinobi is an original turn-based puzzle game inspired by Chess. Become a Ninja in feudal Japan and prove your skills in the art of infiltration, sabotage, and assassination.
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$2.99Chess Knights: Viking Lands
Aug 13 · Minimol Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Puzzle · Chess
Help the Knights to rescue their Kings and Queens in the beautiful and dangerous Vikings Lands. An innovative game concept inspired by chess: infiltrate mindfully, rescue quickly, and get out alive if you can.
Turn-Based TacticsPuzzleMythologyChessTurn-Based StrategyMedievalTabletopBoard GameHistoricalAbstract
$2.99Chess Knights: High Noon
Dec 15 · Minimol Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Puzzle · Board Game
In Chess Knights: High Noon you are one of the deadliest gunslingers of the Old West. Use your instincts and fast trigger skills to hunt and kill all the Wanted Ones. Do it for fame or simply for a fistful of dollars.
WesternTurn-Based TacticsPuzzleShoot 'Em UpBoard GameHistoricalHeistTurn-Based StrategyChessAssassins
$1.99Samurai Chess
Apr 16 · Minimol Games
Both: Chess · Puzzle · Tabletop
The classical game of chess... now with samurai warriors! Play chess against your friends or versus the computer, unlock new scenarios and chess pieces, and prove yourself to be a real samurai.
ChessPuzzleMartial ArtsMedievalTurn-Based StrategyStrategyTabletopCasualBoard GameSimulation
$9.99Pawnbarian
Sep 24 · j4nw
Both: Chess · Puzzle · Board Game
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
RoguelikeTurn-Based CombatChessCard GamePuzzleBoard GameRogueliteStrategyCard BattlerTurn-Based Tactics👍 450
$39.99Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Dec 6 · Mimimi Games
Both: Stealth · Ninja · Assassins
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
StealthStrategyTacticalNinjaReal Time TacticsSingleplayerIndieIsometricAssassinsHistorical👍 30,848
-60%$27.99Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Mar 19 · Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Bucharest & Craiova, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Osaka, Ubisoft Philippines, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Sofia, Ubisoft Ukraine
Both: Ninja · Stealth · Assassins
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Action-AdventureOpen WorldNinjaSamuraiStealthAssassinsCombat3DActionHistorical👍 34,994
$9.99The Ouroboros King
Feb 27 · Oriol Cosp Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Board Game · Chess
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
Turn-Based TacticsRogueliteDifficultBoard GameChessTurn-Based StrategyRoguelikeStrategy2DFantasy👍 471
$4.99Combat Chess
Feb 23 · Minds Eye Productions
Both: Chess · Turn-Based Tactics · Board Game
Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players. Beautifully done in rendered 3D graphics, Combat Chess adds stunning animation sequences during gameplay.
ChessRetro3DStrategyDark FantasyTurn-Based TacticsBoard GamePvPTurn-Based StrategyTabletop
$29.99Battle Chess: Game of Kings™
Dec 11 · Olde Sküül, Sculptured Software
Both: Board Game · Tabletop · Chess
It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board.
StrategyBoard GameTabletopChessCasualMultiplayer👍 360
$4.99Schachkampf - Fantasy Chess
Jun 28 · KeyboardKrieger
Both: Chess · Turn-Based Tactics · Puzzle
Solve more than 3.000.000 chess puzzles and fight an AI which is challenging for beginners and pros. Unlock different startign positions to give your chess game a new twist. All that in the style of famous 90s JRPGs.
ChessTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsPixel GraphicsPuzzleBoard GameLocal MultiplayerLogicTurn-Based CombatTactical
$11.995D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Jul 22 · Conor Petersen, Thunkspace, LLC
Both: Chess · Board Game · Puzzle
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
ChessTime TravelTime ManipulationBoard GameDifficultPuzzleMultiplayerTurn-Based StrategyStrategyPsychological👍 8,097
$1.99Ragnarok Chess
May 4 · Minimol Games
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Puzzle · Board Game
The classical game of chess... now played in the beautiful Viking lands! Play chess against your friends or versus the computer, unlock new scenarios and chess pieces, and prove yourself to be the most fearless Viking alive!
SportsMythologyTurn-Based TacticsMedievalWarPvPPuzzleTurn-Based StrategyStrategyBoard Game
$2.99King of the Bridge
Mar 8 · Finn Schuuring
Both: Puzzle · Chess · Board Game
Face off against the bridge troll in his bizarre game of chess! Decrypt, Twist and Enforce the rules as your devious opponent attempts to break them in King of the Bridge!
PuzzleStrategyChessComedyBoard GameMultiple EndingsFantasy2.5DAdventureSouls-like👍 1,668
$34.99Aragami 2
Sep 17 · Lince Works
Both: Stealth · Ninja · Assassins
Aragami 2 is a third person stealth game where you play as an assassin with the power to control the shadows. Join the shadow clan and fight the invader armies to protect your people.
StealthNinjaAssassinsOnline Co-OpCo-op CampaignActionAction-AdventureThird PersonStylized3D👍 3,472
-50%$7.49Shogun Showdown
Sep 5 · Roboatino
Both: Turn-Based Tactics
Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
Replay ValueStrategy RPGTurn-BasedRoguelikePixel GraphicsTurn-Based StrategyRoguelike DeckbuilderStrategyTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based Tactics👍 6,201
-70%$3.89RONIN
Jun 30 · Tomasz Wacławek
Both: Ninja · Stealth · Turn-Based Tactics
Ronin is stylish a turn-based action platformer following the exploits of a vengeful heroine determined to strike down five prominent figures of a powerful corporation.
IndieActionNinjaTurn-BasedPlatformerStealth2DFemale ProtagonistTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based Tactics👍 1,613
$19.99Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Dec 6 · Mimimi Games
Both: Stealth · Assassins · Puzzle
Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
Real Time TacticsStrategyIsometricStealthActionAdventureRTSAssassinsPuzzleNinja👍 3,966
Mark of the Ninja
· Klei Entertainment
Both: Stealth · Ninja · Assassins
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
StealthPlatformerNinjaIndie2DActionSingleplayerSide ScrollerAdventureAssassins👍 11,743
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$6.99The Knight of Turn
Dec 18 · IdunaSoft
Both: Board Game · Tabletop · Puzzle
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Jan 24 · Game Source Studio
Both: Board Game · Turn-Based Tactics · Tabletop
Begin your journey to become a mighty samurai mage! In a blend of adventure, strategy and deckbuilding gameplay, choose how you will follow the way of the Mahoken. Explore the Celestial Islands, build your deck, battle challenging demons, and protect the land from the forces of corruption.
Board GameTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyExplorationIsometricRogueliteCard BattlerPvECard GameTabletop👍 464
$12.99Project: AHNO's Ark
Sep 19 · PHOSEPO
Both: Board Game · Tabletop · Turn-Based Tactics
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VampiresTactical RPGRPGBoard GameTabletopRogueliteTurn-Based TacticsStrategy RPGTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based Strategy👍 120
$9.99Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
May 12 · PUNKCAKE Delicieux
Both: Chess · Tabletop
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
ChessTurn-Based StrategyRoguelikeStrategyAction RoguelikeArcadePixel GraphicsTabletopChoices MatterRetro👍 5,920
FreeLast Gambit
Aug 27 · Mads
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Chess · Board Game
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.
Early AccessTurn-Based TacticsChessRoguelikeTurn-Based StrategyPvPRogueliteStrategyBoard Game2D
$3.99CHESS CROWN
Nov 30 · Murafka games
Both: Puzzle · Board Game · Turn-Based Tactics
CHESS CROWN- chess in a medieval fantasy theme and with the opportunity to compete with other players on the network.
StrategyPuzzleBoard GameTurn-Based Strategy3DMedievalPvETurn-Based TacticsIndieAsynchronous Multiplayer
$19.99Styx: Shards of Darkness
Mar 14 · Cyanide Studio
Both: Stealth · Assassins
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
StealthSingleplayerActionAssassinsCo-opStory RichAtmosphericAdventureThird PersonParkour👍 5,079
$4.99Ninja Stealth 3
Dec 6 · SC Jogos
Both: Stealth · Ninja · Puzzle
After a long vacation our ninja is a little rusty, can you help him with his training? Ninja Stealth III brings you 30 new challenging levels, are you ready?
StealthStrategyNinjaIndieCasualAction-AdventureDifficultPuzzle2DTop-Down👍 546
$0.99回纹战棋
Aug 1 · 都要恰饭的
Both: Chess · Turn-Based Tactics
There are 11 classes in the war board game. Each class has 4 skills, one passive, and 24 equipment (8 equipment have active skills). You can switch to the third-person perspective when fighting.
ChessTurn-Based TacticsJRPGTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerCasualStrategyStrategy RPG3DAnime
$0.99FourPlay Chess
Apr 30 · Smunty Studios
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Puzzle · Tabletop
Chess like you have never seen it before. FourPlay Chess is a 4 player party evolution of chess, form a coalition with 2v2 co-op Team Battle mode or go solo in a 4 player free-for-all massacre. Win games, earn higher ranks and display your dominance. Will you become the true King?
SportsTurn-Based TacticsPvPPuzzleTabletopStrategyBoard GameTurn-Based Strategy3DRealistic
FreeHiddens Awakening
Aug 19 · ITDL Games
Both: Stealth · Turn-Based Tactics · Tabletop
The Howler Hidden regains consciousness in the forest and discovers that his world has changed. Can you save the Hiddens from extinction, organize the resistance and get the situation under control ? Become the ruthless shadow of the forests in this turn-based stealth strategy game
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