Games like ChessBase 17 Steam Edition
If ChessBase 17 Steam Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fritz - Your chess coach, Fritz 19 SE and Unending War: Grand-Strategy Chess — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its professional grade analysis tools, challenging and competitive. 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 ChessBase 17 Steam Edition: ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
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Fritz - Your chess coach
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Top pick for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Fritz. Your chess trainer! Chess is fun with me! With AI help you learn to play brilliant winning games even as a beginner. Or play at professional level without help. Always with a humorous commentary. I also find opponents for you on the chess server and give you tactics training.
Fritz 19 SE
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Second-strongest match for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Attacker, coward, swindler or endgame wizard: I'll show you how to win against anyone! After my World Championship victories in 2022 and 2023, I am the reigning Chess Software World Champion and am now looking forward to showing you how to become even stronger against your opponent!
Unending War: Grand-Strategy Chess
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Chess. The Unending War. But why are these battles being fought? And what really happens when two knights do battle? Enter the world of Chess. Where Seven Gods vie for power and worship in a never-ending war!
Grand Chess Manager: Road to Grandmaster
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Create your chess player, build and manage your own club, train your squad, scout new talent, handle transfers and finances, and fight your way from local tournaments to the grandmaster title.
Pact or Peril: World Domination
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Ranked #6 for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Conquer the map in a 1–8 player territory world domination strategy showdown. Deploy armies, roll dice, capture territories, trade cards for bonus troops, and forge pacts your friends will absolutely regret signing.
The Chess Variants Club
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Ranked #7 for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
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.
Absolute Tennis Manager
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Shares a contemplative mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Ranked #8 for ChessBase 17 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
The most complete Tennis management game!
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Baldur's Gate 3
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Priced ~65% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~89% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~85% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Satisfactory
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Priced ~69% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
RimWorld
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Priced ~73% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Factorio
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Priced ~73% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Dispatch
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Priced ~82% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Balatro
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Priced ~91% under ChessBase 17 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Outpath: First Journey
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Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Wires And Whiskers
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Rec Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Other recommendable Steam games by ChessBase GmbH, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FritzChess 15
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
What does the modern chess player need? A sparring partner, a trainer, an up-to-date database and access to an online chess server! Fritz, probably the world’s most popular chess program (think back to FRITZ’s unforgettable victories against Kasparov, Kramnik & Co) offers just that for beginners and tournament players alike: it plays...
Fritz Chess 16 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! When Fritz entered his first tournaments some 25 years ago, humans still had a real chance of taking the engine down. Only a few years down the line, Fritz was already beating grandmasters left, right and center, but ever since his 4:2 victory over Kramnik in 2006, Fritz has been considered...
Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.
ChessBase 16 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares database management and a contemplative mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
Fritz 18 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.
Fritz&Chesster - Learn to Play Chess
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
The chess classic: This is how children learn chess through play! Strategic thinking, tricky brain training, exciting competitive situations, lots of fun and a good portion of chess knowledge - all this and more is contained in this unusual chess adventure!
Fritz - Your chess coach
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Sports and Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Fritz. Your chess trainer! Chess is fun with me! With AI help you learn to play brilliant winning games even as a beginner. Or play at professional level without help. Always with a humorous commentary. I also find opponents for you on the chess server and give you tactics training.
Fritz 19 SE
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 17 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 17 Steam Edition.
Attacker, coward, swindler or endgame wizard: I'll show you how to win against anyone! After my World Championship victories in 2022 and 2023, I am the reigning Chess Software World Champion and am now looking forward to showing you how to become even stronger against your opponent!
Frequently asked about ChessBase 17 Steam Edition
- Does ChessBase 17 Steam Edition work on Steam Deck?
- ChessBase 17 Steam Edition is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does ChessBase 17 Steam Edition cost?
- ChessBase 17 Steam Edition is listed on Steam at 129.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ChessBase 17 Steam Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ChessBase 17 Steam Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to ChessBase 17 Steam Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ChessBase 17 Steam Edition are Fritz - Your chess coach, Fritz 19 SE, Unending War: Grand-Strategy Chess.
- Who developed ChessBase 17 Steam Edition?
- ChessBase 17 Steam Edition was developed by ChessBase GmbH.
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