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A free chess-like strategy game about building creature teams and capturing opponents, though a brief, weird experience that left one reviewer unimpressed.

Free Chess
A physics-based chess sandbox where you can knock over pieces and play by your own rules.
2024-05-09
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Side view

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Games like PLOY

A free chess-like strategy game about building creature teams and capturing opponents, though a brief, weird experience that left one reviewer unimpressed.

Free Chess
A physics-based chess sandbox where you can knock over pieces and play by your own rules.
2024-05-09
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric
- Side view

Simulator

Card & Board Game

Dark Chess

An asymmetric chess strategy game with fog of war, a story-driven campaign, and custom traps, whose reviewer sessions tend to be short and tense.

2023-02-28

Strategy
Indie

Passant: A Chess Roguelike

A challenging single-player chess roguelike where collecting pieces and items reshapes each run; reviewers logged a median of about 5.5 hours.

2025-08-11

Strategy
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Broilers

A multiplayer-only turn-based strategy game where breeding and selection mechanics drive online PvP, but with a steep learning curve and a sparse player base.

2022-11-07

Strategy
Indie

Wequer

A free-to-play turn-based tactics game that blends chess-like positioning with unit hatching, ranged attacks, and spellcasting in online PvP.

2019-04-23

Strategy
Indie

Check vs Mate

A casual chess-based strategy game with animated fantasy figurines, tactical PvP, and a short, limited single-player experience.

2012-08-16

Action
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Side view
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Card & Board Game

Narik Chess

A free-to-play chess-variant PvP game with time-travel and spell mechanics, but early reviews are sparse and negative.

2026-05-06

Glyph Chess

A free-to-play magical fantasy strategy board game where mages escort or destroy a Scepter, with mixed reviews and short sessions.

2026-01-20

Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Card & Board Game

Grid Tactics: Duel

A free-to-play grid-based competitive card game focused on deckbuilding and positional play, but with a confusing tutorial and short reviewer sessions.

2026-06-16

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Card & Board Game

ChessBoyChess

A free-to-play pixel-art chess game with local and LAN multiplayer, but reviewers found the pieces hard to distinguish and the game nearly unplayable.

2026-04-03

GoblinChess

A free-to-play chess variant with ten magical cards, optional chaos, online cross-platform PvP, local split-screen, and a robot opponent, though reviewers found it shallow and the bot unsatisfying.

2026-04-11

Promptables - Das KI-Duell

A turn-based PvP creature battler where players invent abilities for an AI to judge, producing a clever but presently restrictive and rough short-session experience.

2026-05-21

Free Chess