Games like Hnefatafl
If Hnefatafl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Kingdom, Gem Rush and Ogre — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and competitive. 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 Hnefatafl: The ancient boardgame of the Vikings. Thousands of variants, offline and online cross-platform play with leaderboards and tournaments. Are you ready for the challenge? Prepared to earn your way to Valhalla?
Players who liked Hnefatafl also play
Steam players who put hours into Hnefatafl 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.
Chess Kingdom
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Top pick for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hnefatafl.
Chess for every kind of player. Whether you're learning the rules or hunting a Legend rank, there's a place for you in the kingdom.
Gem Rush
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hnefatafl.
The well-loved board game comes to Steam. This mountain is rich in mystic gems. Combine gems to open up new rooms, providing new ways to dig up gems. Race against other players or race together against the clock to dig the greatest mine in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn strategy game.
Ogre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hnefatafl.
Third-strongest match for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hnefatafl.
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
Pets Kingdom Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hnefatafl.
Pets Kingdom Chess is a cozy, family-friendly 3D chess game where dogs and cats battle for a fantasy kingdom. Learn chess step by step, play against the AI, or challenge a friend in local or online multiplayer.
Small World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hnefatafl.
Ranked #5 for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hnefatafl.
CONTROL FANTASY RACES, SET OFF TO CONQUER NEW LANDS, OVERTHROW YOUR ENEMIES AND CLAIM THE VICTORY! In this digital adaptation of the legendary board game, dive into a world inhabited by whimsical fantasy races.
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hnefatafl.
Ranked #6 for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hnefatafl.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hnefatafl.
Ranked #7 for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 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.
Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hnefatafl.
Ranked #8 for Hnefatafl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 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
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hnefatafl at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hnefatafl.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hnefatafl.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hnefatafl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hnefatafl.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Frequently asked about Hnefatafl
- Is Hnefatafl verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hnefatafl is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hnefatafl cost?
- Hnefatafl is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hnefatafl have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hnefatafl supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Hnefatafl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hnefatafl are Chess Kingdom, Gem Rush, Ogre.
- Who developed Hnefatafl?
- Hnefatafl was developed by Philippe Schober.
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 Hnefatafl.
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