Games like Chess Tools
If Chess Tools is your kind of game, the closest matches are Janggi, Shattered Chess and BOT.VINNIK Chess Masters Academy — 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 Chess Tools: Learn chess by reliving the greatest games of all time. Train with 70+ tutorials, 150+ puzzles, and interactive quests where you guess the moves of legends like Tal, Fischer, and Carlsen. Includes variants, analysis tools, and 2D/3D boards.
Players who liked Chess Tools also play
Steam players who put hours into Chess Tools 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.
Shattered Chess
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Chess Tools.
Chain massive combos, build game-breaking synergies, and survive rule-changing bosses in this fast-paced roguelike twist on chess.
BOT.VINNIK Chess Masters Academy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Chess Tools.
BOT.VINNIK is a sarcastic Soviet robot with no patience for bad moves and he's about to become your chess coach. Puzzles, tactics, and commentary that will either make you great or make you quit.
King's Skirmish
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Tools.
A turn-based chess battler where every capture becomes a tactical duel. Use unique piece abilities, reposition your own pieces, play against bots, challenge friends locally, or progress through Story Mode.
StrategySteam ↗Pawn of the Dead
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Tools.
Chess variation with unique twist: Black turns White into undead like themselves
Hardcourt Balls
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Ranked #6 for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Chess Tools.
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.
Cold Transit
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Ranked #7 for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Tools.
Catch your friends hiding in the public transport network, before they manage to disappear. Use bikes, trams, trains and more to move around in the city.
Gambition
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Ranked #8 for Chess Tools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Tools.
A roguelike chess strategy game where chess pieces evolve into powerful forms, gaining unique abilities and devastating synergies across ever-changing boards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chess Tools at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
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 ~58% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Tools.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Tools.
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
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Priced ~58% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chess Tools.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~75% under Chess Tools on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Chess Tools.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
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. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Tools.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Chess Tools
- How much does Chess Tools cost?
- Chess Tools is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chess Tools?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess Tools are Janggi, Shattered Chess, BOT.VINNIK Chess Masters Academy.
- Who developed Chess Tools?
- Chess Tools was developed by Tom Sykes.
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 Chess Tools.
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