Games like Grandmaster Chess
If Grandmaster Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Je Di Bo, ChessCraft and Schachkampf - Fantasy Chess — 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 Grandmaster Chess: Whether you’re a beginner or a veteran, this fully featured chess game from Capstone has all the tools and features you need to learn and master the game of chess. Challenge an opponent with five adjustable skill levels from beginner to grandmaster.
Players who liked Grandmaster Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Grandmaster 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.
Je Di Bo
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Top pick for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Je Di Bo is a chaotic, deep turn-based card strategy where chess-like logic meets unpredictability. Move pieces, upgrade their ranks, and dominate the board. But beware: every 7 turns, Karma rolls the dice and completely changes the rules of engagement. Can you outsmart the chaos?
ChessCraft
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Second-strongest match for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess AI sandbox. Create your own chess boards, rules, and pieces. Play against the computer or your friends online, or win loot by playing one of 80 built-in chess boards in adventure mode.
Schachkampf - Fantasy Chess
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Third-strongest match for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Solve more than 3.000.000 chess puzzles and fight an AI which is challenging for beginners and pros. Unlock different startign positions to give your chess game a new twist. All that in the style of famous 90s JRPGs.
Dice chess
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Ranked #4 for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Super X Chess
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Ranked #5 for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
A chess game where you can combine your own pieces by capturing them. The combined piece moves as both pieces that got combined or with new rules when combining two pieces of same type. It's improving chess by making it more exciting & dynamic.
Chess Visualized
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Ranked #6 for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does
Lazy Chess
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Ranked #7 for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster 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.
Meow Over Moo
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Ranked #8 for Grandmaster Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Unleash tactical mayhem in a ruthless cat-vs-cow board game! Experience cute, 1v1 pure strategy with symmetric factions, deterministic combat, and zero first-player advantage. From relaxed play to competitive mastery, every move counts in this perfectly balanced, turn-based showdown.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grandmaster Chess at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~57% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~86% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster 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!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~57% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~86% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster 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.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~86% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Master Healer Kale with useless party
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Priced ~43% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Hexcells Plus
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Priced ~57% under Grandmaster Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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!
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More from Capstone Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Capstone Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Corridor 7: Alien Invasion
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Another title from Capstone Software, the studio behind Grandmaster Chess.
This terrifying 1990s sci-fi first-person shooter from Capstone Software has you venturing deep into the dark and twisting test chambers of Corridor 7 to combat a hostile takeover of Earth.
Discoveries of the Deep
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Another title from Capstone Software, the studio behind Grandmaster Chess.
Join an expedition to the unexplored abyss – a fascinating world of strange creatures, lost vessels, and a wealth of untold secrets. Search for ancient wrecks, underwater trenches, missing airplanes, and even the Titanic. Climb on board your mini-sub and dive as deep as you dare!
Search for the Titanic
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Another title from Capstone Software, the studio behind Grandmaster Chess. Shares Strategy with Grandmaster Chess.
As an inexperienced oceanographer, you must build your skills, reputation, crew, and resources along your journey to mount an expedition to find the lost Titanic. Experience the challenges, dangers and excitement of scientific underwater exploration!
Operation Body Count
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Another title from Capstone Software, the studio behind Grandmaster Chess.
Capstone Software’s classic first-person shooter built on an upgraded Wolfenstein 3D engine brings the heat with 40 levels of intense action. Struggle to the top against hordes of bad guys – it’s time to put that training to the test, soldier!
Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance
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Another title from Capstone Software, the studio behind Grandmaster Chess.
Continue the story of the knight Grondoval in this first-person fantasy slasher. Get ready for bloody encounters with vile creatures and vicious warriors. Stop an evil witch from carrying a titular blood vengeance in revenge for him having slain her sister.
Frequently asked about Grandmaster Chess
- Is Grandmaster Chess verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Grandmaster Chess is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Grandmaster Chess cost?
- Grandmaster Chess is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Grandmaster Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Grandmaster Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Grandmaster Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grandmaster Chess are Je Di Bo, ChessCraft, Schachkampf - Fantasy Chess.
- Who developed Grandmaster Chess?
- Grandmaster Chess was developed by Capstone Software and published by Ziggurat.
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 Grandmaster Chess.
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