Games like Lazy Chess
If Lazy Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Chess Variants Club, 3D Chess Online and Sumo Battlegrounds — 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 Lazy Chess: Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
Players who liked Lazy Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Lazy 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.
The Chess Variants Club
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Top pick for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy Chess.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
3D Chess Online
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Second-strongest match for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy 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.
Sumo Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lazy Chess.
Sumo is a strategy board game where players maneuver pieces of varying strengths on a 9x9 grid to push and pull their opponent's pieces off the board, combining simple mechanics with deep strategic possibilities.
Chess Mega Bundle
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Ranked #4 for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Lazy Chess.
Play hundreds of chess variants online or locally.
Canvas - The Board Game
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Ranked #5 for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy Chess.
Create stunning paintings, layer cards strategically, and score ribbons in Canvas - a digital board game where art meets strategy. Choose and combine Art Cards to create beautiful paintings and enjoy a mix of artistic expression and tactical gameplay.
Cat Chess
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Ranked #6 for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy Chess.
Play the ancient and thrilling game of Chess but with... cats! Lead your furry friends to the Purrfect battle of brains and whiskers!
Chess Visualized
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Ranked #7 for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy Chess.
A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does
The Conquest of Go
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Ranked #8 for Lazy Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy Chess.
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lazy Chess at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lazy Chess.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lazy Chess.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lazy Chess.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lazy Chess.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lazy Chess.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lazy Chess.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Lazy Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lazy Chess.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 Lazy 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lazy 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.
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 Lazy Chess.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lazy Chess.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lazy Chess.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lazy Chess.
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 and Casual with Lazy Chess.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Lazy Chess
- How much does Lazy Chess cost?
- Lazy Chess is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Lazy Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Lazy Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Lazy Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lazy Chess are The Chess Variants Club, 3D Chess Online, Sumo Battlegrounds.
- Who developed Lazy Chess?
- Lazy Chess was developed by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis and published by Cinq-Mars Media.
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 Lazy Chess.
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