Games like Chessarama
If Chessarama is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roxy Raccoon's Mancala Madness, King for a Knight and Beacon Patrol: First Horizons — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, cozy and relaxing. 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 Chessarama: Chessarama is a collection of chess-inspired puzzle and strategy games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their goals and themes. Solve challenges, unlock collectibles, and compete against each other on the leaderboards. Welcome to Chessarama!
Players who liked Chessarama also play
Steam players who put hours into Chessarama 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.
Roxy Raccoon's Mancala Madness
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
When a Voodoo Priestess seeks vengeance upon the world, it is up to one Raccoon to stop her! Learn the basics & master the tactics of the classic board game as you prove, once and for all, that you are the true Mancala champion!
King for a Knight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Be the unsung hero of chess board -BE THE KNIGHT! A fun -fast paced chess knight puzzle adventure with over 100 levels to stomp your way through!
Beacon Patrol: First Horizons
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Beacon Patrol: First Horizons is a relaxing strategy game with endless possiblities. Steer your Coast Guard ship and build your own coastal map one tile at a time. Get more tiles by exploring and keep building indefinitely as long as you can keep scoring.
Beacon Patrol
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Chessarama.
Ranked #4 for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Beacon Patrol is a cooperative and relaxing tile laying exploration game. You play as captains of the Coast Guard, navigating the coast of the North Sea to secure its beacon buoys, lighthouses and waterways. Work together with your friends and score points by creating the most complete map.
Primrows
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
A challenging game of logic, luck, and pattern recognition that adds a twist of chance to sudoku mechanics. Tend to a whimsical garden with organic sounds and visuals while you unearth new weekly challenges that introduce special mechanics.
Hardcourt Balls
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chessarama.
Hardcourt Balls is a fast-paced, turn-based adaptation of the real-world game of tennis. With just a few simple rules, the roll of dice, and tactical use of skill "cards", it manages to capture some of the nuances and excitement that make tennis such a great sport.
Tree Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chessarama.
Tiny Kingdoms, big strategy! Lead your Treelings, fend off rivals, and outwit the winter chill in this turn- based 4x adventure!
Mexican Train
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Chessarama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Mexican Train brings the classic game of Mexican Train Dominoes to 3D, supporting up to 7 players per online multiplayer session, or play solo and compete against up to 6 CPU players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chessarama at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chessarama.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chessarama.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chessarama.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chessarama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chessarama.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Minimol Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Minimol Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Zen Chess: Mate in One
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.
Unlock The King
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Colorgrid
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Colorgrid is a puzzle game about mixing colors in a Lab. Find the correct positions for your lasers and mirrors to get the right mix of colors in each material.
Knight Swap
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
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?
Daylife in Japan - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Casual with Chessarama.
Daylife in Japan is a minimalist jigsaw puzzle game with pixel art GIFs instead of images.
Zen Chess: Mate in Two
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Zen Chess: Mate in Two is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-two problems in a beautifully designed chess board.
Zen Chess: Mate in Three
WHY THIS
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Zen Chess: Mate in Three is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-three problems in a beautifully designed chess board.
Zen Chess: Mate in Four
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Chessarama.
Another title from Minimol Games, the studio behind Chessarama. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chessarama.
Zen Chess: Mate in Four is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-four problems in a beautifully designed chess board.
Frequently asked about Chessarama
- Does Chessarama run on Steam Deck?
- Chessarama is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Chessarama cost?
- Chessarama is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chessarama?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chessarama are Roxy Raccoon's Mancala Madness, King for a Knight, Beacon Patrol: First Horizons.
- Who developed Chessarama?
- Chessarama was developed by Minimol Games and published by Minimol Games, Hawthorn 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 Chessarama.
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