Games like Mad Chess
If Mad Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, 3D Chess Online and Chesscape Room — 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 Mad Chess: Mad Chess is a turn-based strategy game that vastly expands on the classic game of chess. Explore a colorful fantasy world, recruit up to 20 unique factions, fight-off an alien invasion in a single-player story mode or battle your friends online!
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Steam players who put hours into Mad Chess 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.
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mad Chess.
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!
3D Chess Online
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Chess.
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
Chesscape Room
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mad Chess.
Escape custom chess boards with your king while your opponent hunts you down. Play campaigns, solve puzzles, compete locally or ranked online, and build your own puzzles and campaigns in the editor.
Sans Issue
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Ranked #4 for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Chess.
Sans Issue is a 2D game mixing chess and card-deck building. Use cards to summon new pieces, move your pieces in new ways, and change the board's terrain. Earn new cards via the campaign, create custom decks using the deckbuilder, and play against your friends both locally and over Steam.
A Wizard-Chess Tournament
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Ranked #5 for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Chess.
Chess, but with wizards. Every piece has HP and Attack and spell cards bend the rules. Outplay a friend in hotseat, over LAN, or online and climb the leaderboard.
Dice chess
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Ranked #6 for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Chess.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Chess.
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 #8 for Mad Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Chess.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mad Chess.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Mad Chess.
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 Mad Chess.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mad Chess.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mad Chess.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mad Chess.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Mad Chess
- Does Mad Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mad Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Mad Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mad Chess are 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, 3D Chess Online, Chesscape Room.
- Who developed Mad Chess?
- Mad Chess was developed by Kenjataimu Studio.
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 Mad Chess.
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