Games like Chess Brain
If Chess Brain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Brain: Dark Troops, Unlock The King and Chesskoban - Chess Puzzles — 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 Chess Brain: Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
Players who liked Chess Brain also play
Steam players who put hours into Chess Brain 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 Brain: Dark Troops
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
This game develops the ability to predict movement in Chess, using a playful and immersive concept. The dark troops march in a single sound. They are more organized and smarter
Unlock The King
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chess Brain.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Chesskoban - Chess Puzzles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
Relaxing puzzle game for chess lovers and beginners using a combination of sokoban and chess mechanics. If you like Chess you will enjoy playing it!
Puzzle & Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
Puzzle & Chess is a relaxing and minimalist game that mixes puzzle challenges with chess moves. Click on pieces, solve the puzzles with a pleasant and relaxing environment. You don't need to know how to play chess to have fun. No score, no timer and no pressure.
Knight Swap
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?
A Lone Piece
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
Easy to learn. Hard to master. A Lone Piece is a chess themed puzzle game where you control a single pawn caught in the middle of opposing hostile pieces. Your main job is to escape the board, but sometimes offence is the best defense. Become more than just A Lone Piece.
Chess: The Lost Pieces
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Chess Morph: The Queen's Wormholes
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Chess Brain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
An original puzzle game inspired by chess. Control a lonely Queen with shapeshifting abilities and defeat the enemy army. Move wisely, explore the wormholes on the board, take the enemy shape and kill them all.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chess Brain at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Chess Brain on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chess Brain.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Chess Brain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Chess Brain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Chess Brain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Brain.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Chess Brain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Brain.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Brain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Brain.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Brain.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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More from Caio Flavio
Other recommendable Steam games by Caio Flavio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Frisbee For Fun
WHY THIS
Another title from Caio Flavio, the studio behind Chess Brain. Shares Indie with Chess Brain.
Frisbee is joy, frisbee is fun! You are a very mischievous kitten that uses helpless chickens as targets.
Chess Brain: Dark Troops
WHY THIS
Another title from Caio Flavio, the studio behind Chess Brain. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Brain.
This game develops the ability to predict movement in Chess, using a playful and immersive concept. The dark troops march in a single sound. They are more organized and smarter
Dracula Frames
WHY THIS
Another title from Caio Flavio, the studio behind Chess Brain. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Brain.
Dracula's castle consists of 8 floors. Each floor has a large picture with a magnificent painting representing landmarks of Dracula's life. Your goal is to rebuild each painting through a slide puzzle and get to the top floor!
Frequently asked about Chess Brain
- Does Chess Brain run on Steam Deck?
- Chess Brain is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Chess Brain cost?
- Chess Brain is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chess Brain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess Brain are Chess Brain: Dark Troops, Unlock The King, Chesskoban - Chess Puzzles.
- Who developed Chess Brain?
- Chess Brain was developed by Caio Flavio.
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 Chess Brain.
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