6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Auto Chess. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Auto Chess.
Release Date: 15/11/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and 2D Side-On
Checkmate Showdown is a strategic fighting game where you move your pieces on a chess board and then use them in fights to try and take off enemy pieces. You use fists, kicks, and weapons to defeat opponents in combat, and the winning piece gets to stay...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Chezzle is similar to chess, but here you only have one piece that changes to whatever you take. It features a relaxing soundscape and encouraging messages, and allows you to get the grips of the rules of chess at your own pace while also creating a...
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Wargroove is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.
Release Date: 02/03/2016
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Clash Royale is a real-time strategy game where you collect cards to gain units and powers for a player vs. player battle. It's like a simpler version of Clash of Clans.
Release Date: 11/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Grid
Storybook Brawl is a fighting card game where you choose a unique hero to lead an expanding team of storybook characters in a short 8-player tournaments. Recruit and upgrade a characters from your favourite stories and fairy tales that take advantage of...
Release Date: 18/01/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Rivengard is a strategy battle game where you fight creatures with fantasy superheroes. You upgrade your team to make them as powerful as possible then use them in turn-based encounters requiring tactical prowess. Progress can be sped up by spending...
13 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Auto Chess. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Auto Chess.
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessplosion is an action, puzzle game where you drop chess pieces on a board to trigger bombs in the shape of their related chess moves. Your aim is to use the different pieces (and bomb attacks) to trap opponents like Bomberman. No prior chess...
Release Date: 27/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Hand-Made and Pixels
Into the Breach is a fantasy turn-based battle. It's set in a future where humanity fights an army of giant monsters. You control mechs equipped with a variety of weapons and armour in carefully coordinated actions played out on super-small tile-based...
Release Date: 21/07/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Pokémon Unite is an online fighting game where you battle Pokémon in an arena and try and score points against an opposing team. Its short, frenetic matches are similar to DotA or [link to game/League+Of+Legends League of...
Release Date: 27/10/2009
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
League Of Legends is an action role-play game where you battle enemies and other players in online arenas. You choose a champion with unique abilities and battle to destroy another human or computer-controlled team's base. Other modes vary the challenge...
Release Date: 09/06/2013, updated in 2013
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead
DotA 2 (Defence of the Ancients) is a series of fighting and shooting games where you battle enemies and human-controlled characters in online matches. The aim is to destroy the other team's Ancient artefact using one of the many characters. Similar to...
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Not Chess is a puzzle game similar to Chess, but you only have one piece, which morphs into whatever piece you take. It's a simple way of getting to grips with some of the basic rules of chess in a low-pressure, single-player environment, while also...
Release Date: 30/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
868-HACK is a puzzle game where you hack a computer program to collect as much data as you can. It's a unique puzzle as collecting data triggers more enemies to appear so you walk a delicate balance between collecting as much as possible, but not so...
Release Date: 24/09/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Pawnbarian is a puzzle game where you attack enemies in a dungeon based on chess moves. You build a deck of different pieces and use them in battles
Release Date: 13/10/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text
Really Bad Chess is like chess, but with random pieces selected for each player. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns. Starting positions are also non-standard. It sounds like a bad idea (hence the name) but actually opens the imposing chess challenge...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Tactical Breach Wizards is a small-scale, turn-based fighting and shooting game. You play a team of wizards in modern-day tactical gear, breaching and clearing rooms full of enemies with a combination of guns, abilities and spells.
Release Date: 11/02/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Knight's Retreat is a chess-themed puzzle game. It's not played on a chess board, but the pieces do move as they usually do. Rather than check-mate, your aim is to get your Knights back to their home squares in each level.
Release Date: 02/01/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Web
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessformer is a running and jumping game where you are trying to capture the king. The twist is that it's turn based and you move around obstacles using chess pieces that can only behave as they do in the game of chess.
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Lazy Chess is a puzzle game that simplifies the classic game for newcomers. Rather than choose any move yourself, you simply choose between the best two options.
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