Games like Viking Chess: Hnefatafl
If Viking Chess: Hnefatafl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Triple Chess, CHESS CROWN and CHESS with LASERS — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Viking Chess: Hnefatafl: Play the ancient game of "Hnefatafl" in style on your PC, in Singleplayer mode against the AI or Multiplayer over the internet. "Hnefatafl" is a strategic, chess-like boardgame with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era.

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Triple Chess
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Top pick for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Triple Chess reimagines classic chess with three stacked boards and vertical movement, creating deeper strategy, new tactics, and thrilling multi-level battles.
CHESS CROWN
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Second-strongest match for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
CHESS CROWN- chess in a medieval fantasy theme and with the opportunity to compete with other players on the network.
CHESS with LASERS
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Third-strongest match for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Obliterate the enemy's king with your laser by strategically moving/rotating mirrors, portals and more in this mind-bending chess-like game. Challenge your friends or battle an AI (includes Level Editor)!
Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)
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Ranked #4 for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Experience a 4K graphics strategy game with tactical depth, breadth, and challenge like nothing you have played before: the perfect mix of Chess, tactical setups and quests inpired by classic RPGs
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
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Ranked #5 for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
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!
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
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Ranked #6 for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
The Ouroboros King
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Ranked #7 for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
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.
Hex of Steel
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Ranked #8 for Viking Chess: Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Viking Chess: Hnefatafl at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Viking Chess: Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Aimlabs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Crusader Kings II
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viking Chess: Hnefatafl.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Frequently asked about Viking Chess: Hnefatafl
- How much does Viking Chess: Hnefatafl cost?
- Viking Chess: Hnefatafl is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Viking Chess: Hnefatafl have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Viking Chess: Hnefatafl supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Viking Chess: Hnefatafl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Viking Chess: Hnefatafl are Triple Chess, CHESS CROWN, CHESS with LASERS.
- Who developed Viking Chess: Hnefatafl?
- Viking Chess: Hnefatafl was developed by Diamond Sky Games and published by Rain Games.
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