GameSearch

An AI-Powered Search and Recommendation Engine for Itch.io RPGs

Games That Are NOT Chess
Have you ever wanted to play chess but realized you were bad at chess? You've got your Queen's Gambit, your Blitz, your Glorb's Attack; who can keep it all straight? When it comes to chess, if you haven't done hours of homework, you've basically already lost. And that's just no fun! So here are 30 chess-adjacent games you can play with chess pieces that are not chess.
Price:
$0.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 4 reviews)
Published:
These games are similar to Games That Are NOT Chess ...
Fake Chess   - Play like a master.
We Saved The World Once   - A 2-player TTRPG about former friends
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Blackstone Highway   - Road trip through the weird-midwest with any osr/dnd-adjacent game you can get your hands on.
Fake Chess: The Vibrating Anal Beads Expansion   - Play Fake Chess with vibrating anal beads.
AQUA SQUAD!   - A Tunnel Goons hack of aquatic and aquatic-adjacent adventure.
An Abomination   - Five games in one!
Checkmörk   - A collection of chess themed enemies for MÖRK BORG
DiChess   - Chess, but the pieces are dice
Unspeakable: A Game of Unutterable Horror For Two   - A journaling-adjacent word game for the end of the world, guided by tarot.
Forge Horizons   - 30 oracles for Ironsworn Starforged
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today   - a game no one should ever have to play
Games That Are NOT Chess is similar to...
Blackstone Highway   - Road trip through the weird-midwest with any osr/dnd-adjacent game you can get your hands on.
nine reasons to . . .   - a therapy-adjacent tarot journaling game
FTL   - A non-linear chess-like
Equa!   - An minimal OSR adjacent system laid out as equations.
Forge Horizons   - 30 oracles for Ironsworn Starforged
Fake Chess: The Vibrating Anal Beads Expansion   - Play Fake Chess with vibrating anal beads.
Deluge: The Corrupting Rain   - An OSR adjacent TTRPG focusing on corruption and survival in the end times.
Adventure Chapbook Vol. 1   - Three full length adventures inspired by one-page, one-shots from 30 Days
Two Summers   - Live two wonderful adventures 30 years apart!
Two Summers: first holiday memories   - Live two parallel adventures, 30 years apart!
Odd Jobs, Long Nights, and Cold Mornings   - a two [or three!] player game about adjacent acquaintances, professional respect, and catching feelings
don't cut the tree/be the tree   - [solo ttrpg – 2 pages – 30 min.] two seeds, two letters, two sides of a solo ttrpg game
If you like Channel The Elements check out...
On The Path   - A Witcher-inspired hack of Honey Heist
MiniBX   - A mini hack
Andy's Standard Rules (PocketMod)   - NSR Rules Mash-Up
One Day at a Thyme   - A solo journaling game in which you play a cozy cottage witch.
CRWLR   - An NSR-style, fistful-of-d6 urban crawler
Plerion   - Space Opera Adventure Game
Ritual - The TTRPG of Magic and High Fantasy   - An animist and naturalist TTRPG where magic is accessible to all.
The Empire Never Ended   - Surreal GM-fluid RPG inspired by the works of Philip K. Dick
CARRY ON - 24XX Monster Hunters   - The supernatural is real, and you are here to stop the monsters — an homage and goodbye to a 15-Season journey.
Into the Depths   - An Into the Odd Hack
Guns & Repression   - A Supernatural-inspired hack of Lasers & Feelings
Arcana Academy   - PbtA Magic School Mystery
If you like Irregular Tesssellation check out...
BETTER + MOONS   - A Submission For The Starforged: Ancient Connections Game Jam
Anyone Can Wear the Mask (Ultimate Edition)   - A game about a superhero, a supervillain, and the city they share.
Crash of the Nomad   - A one-page survival scenario for Ironsworn: Starforged.
Session Zero: Bond Building Edition   - A deck based game about establishing bonds between characters
A Collection Of Curious Characters   - npcs -- or pcs! -- for fantasy roleplaying games
Lilancholy   - A guide to a secret world
There is a Light at the Edge of the World   - A game about lighting connections.
I Went to the North Pole Once   - Have you ever wanted to go to the North Pole? Now you and your friends can share stories of your misadventures!
Of That Colossal Wreck   - A game of wandering the wasteland and building connections
The Outer Whorls   - A story game of making connections between doomed worlds
Mausritter Public Domain NPCs   - Mausritter NPCs
Ironsworn Starforged Move Cards   - Printable Move cards for Ironsworn Starforged
If you like Day of the Doctors check out...
Guns & Repression   - A Supernatural-inspired hack of Lasers & Feelings
Slice And Dice   - A lasers and feelings hack about cooking for demons
Magical Pets   - A cute TTRPG where characters are magical pets at a magic school (Lasers & Feelings hack, in English & German).
Sages and Sabers ...and Stealing, and Sorcery   - A Lasers & Feelings 'Hack'
Kobolds and Trench Coats   - You are several Kobolds in a trench coat. Cause mayhem, trick pesky adventurers, and take back your shinies!
Ronin   - A samurai cinema RPG inspired by Lasers and Feelings.
Magic & Mischief   - Magical kids at a magical school solving magical mysteries!
CYBER//PUNK   - 1-page techno-noir roleplaying
A Good Day to Roll Hard   - A Die Hard TTRPG
Brick Built   - Construction-play Lasers & Feelings Hack
Symphony of the Devil   - A Lasers & Feelings pamphlet hack about revenge.
Critical Rolls   - Non-political Lasers & Feelings Adjacent Games