Games like Puzzle & Chess
If Puzzle & Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Brain, Chess Brain: Dark Troops and Unlock The King — 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 Puzzle & Chess: 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.
Players who liked Puzzle & Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Puzzle & 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.
Chess Brain
WHY THIS
Top pick for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
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!
Chess Brain: Dark Troops
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
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
Third-strongest match for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Puzzle & Chess.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Chess Morph: The Queen's Wormholes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
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.
Egyptian Senet
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Ranked #5 for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Don't Miss The Opportunity To Play The World's Oldest Board Game From Ancient Egypt.
Knight Swap
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
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?
Sudoku Zenkai / 数独全卡
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
Sudoku Zenkai is a game for everyone, from beginning to advanced players. It brings a new dimension to sudoku - you can solve puzzles with your friends, wherever they are! You can start a new puzzle with a friend or call one over to help when you get stuck.
Dark Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Puzzle & Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Puzzle & Chess at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle & 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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Puzzle & 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 ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Puzzle & 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 ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & 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 ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle & 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Puzzle & 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.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puzzle & Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Puzzle & Chess.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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 Puzzle & 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 Puzzle & 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.
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 Puzzle & 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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Puzzle & 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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Puzzle & Chess.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Beni Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Beni Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
ShapeNeon Chaos
WHY THIS
Another title from Beni Games, the studio behind Puzzle & Chess. Shares Indie and Casual with Puzzle & Chess.
ShapeNeon Chaos is an old school style space-shooter. You are a ship facing off waves of deadly enemies. This game was made to give you a shot of adrenaline in a couple of minutes. Lots of bullets and neon in an arcade psychedelic shooter!
Dice & Dungeons
WHY THIS
Another title from Beni Games, the studio behind Puzzle & Chess. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle & Chess.
Dice & Dungeons is a unique deck builder. You build a DICE deck (dicebuilding)! Explore dungeons, fight enemies with increasingly difficult and get new dice to your deck. A dungeon and it's challenges are never the same as before.
Dragon Bobby - The Story of a Life
WHY THIS
Another title from Beni Games, the studio behind Puzzle & Chess. Shares Indie and Casual with Puzzle & Chess.
A uniquely beautiful game with third-person exploration and puzzles that tells the story of a man's life from birth. You control a dragon who is an analogy of this man in the story. A true reflection on life.
Frequently asked about Puzzle & Chess
- How much does Puzzle & Chess cost?
- Puzzle & Chess is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Puzzle & Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Puzzle & Chess are Chess Brain, Chess Brain: Dark Troops, Unlock The King.
- Who developed Puzzle & Chess?
- Puzzle & Chess was developed by Beni Games.
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 Puzzle & Chess.
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