Games like Five Elements Chess
If Five Elements Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Last One Employed, Rampallians and Silent Mainland — 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 Five Elements Chess: A spell-duel game that combines the Five Elements theory and match-three gameplay.
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Steam players who put hours into Five Elements 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.
Last One Employed
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Top pick for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
A cutthroat party card game for 3–10 players. Sabotage your coworkers, survive your inbox, and be the last one employed. One shared screen; phones are the controllers.
Rampallians
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Second-strongest match for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Five Elements Chess.
Rampallians blends the resource gathering of strategy games with core card game mechanics from Trading Card Game classics. With an auto battler for combat, in a fantasy setting. Nearly 400 cards available, and future expansions to be free updates. So no pay to win, ever.
Silent Mainland
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Third-strongest match for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
Silent Mainland is a Roguelike deck-builder mixing positioning and board tactics on a 5×12 battlefield. Every card is a life-or-death choice. As monster waves surge like a tide, only sharp positioning and smart deckbuilding carve a path to survival.
Warrior Spirits
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Ranked #4 for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
A martial arts card battler inspired by one of my favorite childhood games. Experience a story-driven adventure, level up your fighters, build your deck, shape your playstyle with stat upgrades, conquer roguelike runs, battle Raid Bosses, and fight players around the world in online pvp.
Slay Sean, Save The World!
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Ranked #5 for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
A comic-book auto-battler where the Greek gods brawl. Draft your pantheon, fuse skills into game-breaking combos, and crush real players' ghost armies to climb from Mortal to Olympian. Rebuild your board every round. Then slay Sean and save the world.
Rogue Reigns
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Ranked #6 for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
Rogue Reigns is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about trust and sacrifice. Lead selfish antiheroes through a world where death is no more, and something still hunts them. Build synergies that bind them or rivalries that break them. Nobody dies, some are sacrificed, but everybody is condemned.
Grid Poker
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Ranked #7 for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
GridPoker is a roguelike deckbuilder. Master grid-linking strategies to unleash vastly different scoring potentials from the exact same divine card combo. Beat diverse bosses across changing poker layouts, and enjoy another layer of fun via casual asynchronous card swapping.
SURVIVAL ARCHIVE
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Ranked #8 for Five Elements Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements Chess.
In this world consumed by chaos, there is no savior. Only you and your cards—explore the vast world, encounter NPCs by chance, battle enemies, plant and harvest, and discover how to make tomorrow better.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Five Elements 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!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Five Elements Chess.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Five Elements Chess.
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.
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Frequently asked about Five Elements Chess
- Does Five Elements Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Five Elements 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 Five Elements Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Five Elements Chess are Last One Employed, Rampallians, Silent Mainland.
- Who developed Five Elements Chess?
- Five Elements Chess was developed by Candleman 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 Five Elements Chess.
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