Games like BlackChain
If BlackChain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Five Nations, Barkhan and Endeavor: Rite of Passage — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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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Steam players who put hours into BlackChain 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.
Five Nations
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BlackChain.
Top pick for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
Five Nations is a real-time sci-fi strategy game for PC platform. Encompassing tactical combat in space in real-time mixed with micromanagement of economy, construction, and production featuring different kind of single player modes.
Barkhan
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
A harsh sand planet has become the stage for a brutal war between three Great Clans. For the power over rare minerals each wants to prove their superiority. In the heat of dynamic battles with the enemy's troops, be prepared to face and attack giant Sand Snakes.
Endeavor: Rite of Passage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BlackChain.
Third-strongest match for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
Take command of powerful armies with intuitive player controls and classic RTS features and feel. Control powerful super-weapons and elite units through a 21-mission campaign. Continue the fight on 16 skirmish and 8 unique survival maps.
Swarm Queen
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.
SunAge: Battle for Elysium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BlackChain.
Ranked #5 for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
A return to the roots of real-time strategy, providing beautiful 2D visuals combined with all the features that we came to expect from old school classics. This remastered version is a culmination of all the improvements and new features based upon suggestions from the community.
Taur
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BlackChain.
Ranked #6 for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Supreme Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with BlackChain.
Ranked #7 for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with BlackChain.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for BlackChain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with BlackChain.
Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to BlackChain
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Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of BlackChain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with BlackChain.
The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with BlackChain.
Reviewers of BlackChain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below BlackChain at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under BlackChain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
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.
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BlackChain.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with BlackChain.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about BlackChain
- How much does BlackChain cost?
- BlackChain is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does BlackChain have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — BlackChain supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to BlackChain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BlackChain are Five Nations, Barkhan, Endeavor: Rite of Passage.
- Who developed BlackChain?
- BlackChain was developed by Borington.
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 BlackChain.
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