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Games like Sente

If Sente is your kind of game, the closest matches are Globe Games, Paper Flags and Arete — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Sente: Sente is a strategic board game where every player moves at the same time. Your victory isn't about acting first, it's about thinking ahead. Inspired by the clarity of Chess and Go, with a wholly original ruleset and support for 1–6 players.

StrategyIndieCasualWindows · macOSby Oxobox Games Studios
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Steam players who put hours into Sente also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Globe Games

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sente.

    A suite of turn based games and puzzles on a spherical grid: Chess, Go, and Othello.

    2025Strategy2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Paper Flags

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sente.

    A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Arete

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Sente.

    Arete: The Battles of Alexander the Great is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame where you'll relive the Macedonian king's most epic battles, from fighting alongside his father in Greece to climactic clashes with Darius in Persia to battling warlords at the extreme fringe of the empire.

    2025StrategySimulationCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Hexteria

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sente.

    Hexteria is a casual Turn-Based Strategy and Puzzle game. The concept is simple: each turn you rotate one tile on the hexagonal board, in order to take over your opponents' tiles. Play against your friends or the AI, or challenge yourself with the Single Player Campaign!

    2021StrategyIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Lazy Chess

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sente.

    Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.

    2021StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Chess Mega Bundle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sente.

    Play hundreds of chess variants online or locally.

    2021Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Shift Chess

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sente.

    This is a chess variant in which players can “control the board” as a move action. The game supports online play, matches against AI, and local analysis.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. The Elm Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Sente fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Sente.

    An abstract board game for two players - human or AI - that is easy to learn yet hard to master, played on a tree stump with beautiful procedurally generated backgrounds.

    2021StrategyCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sente.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sente.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sente.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sente.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sente.

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sente

Does Sente have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Sente supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to Sente?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sente are Globe Games, Paper Flags, Arete.
Who developed Sente?
Sente was developed by Oxobox Games Studios and published by Curveball Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Sente.

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