Games like Chess Twist
If Chess Twist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Gambit, Sente and Leadville — 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 Twist: A mind-bending chess game, where straight lines turn and diagonals fork. Hundreds of different boards with new strategies hidden in plain sight.
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Chess Gambit
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Top pick for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chess Twist.
Play chess like never before in a captivating medieval world. Lead animated armies and take on challenging rivals in private online matches. Test your skills with advanced AI or enjoy casual matches with friends offline. Conquer castles and reign supreme in an enchanting 3D chess experience!
Sente
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Second-strongest match for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chess Twist.
Sente is a strategic board game where every player moves at the same time. Your victory isn't about acting first, it's about thinking ahead. Inspired by the clarity of Chess and Go, with a wholly original ruleset and support for 1–6 players.
Leadville
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Third-strongest match for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chess Twist.
Leadville is a grid-based hidden movement strategy game. Each turn, players secretly plan the movement and shot direction of their crew, trying to outmaneuver their rivals.
Paper Flags
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Ranked #4 for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Chess Twist.
A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.
MightyKingdom
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Ranked #5 for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
In a mythical realm, six ancient gods, battle for dominion. Strategically claim lands, outmaneuver rivals, and rise as the supreme power in this fast-paced conquest of territories—solo or in asynchronous online multiplayer.
Mortal Chess
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Ranked #6 for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
Every piece is living on borrowed time. Mortal Chess is a single-player chess variant where your pieces has a visible life countdown. Expired pieces leave behind coins you can collect to buy new pieces during the game for a whole new spin on the classic formula
Deep Tactics - Journey of the Wizard
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Ranked #7 for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
Enter the fascinating world of turn-based tactical games and let yourself be carried away into a captivating story about heroes, castles and wizards. With a sophisticated AI and a variety of unique units, the game offers impressive depth of play and strategic variety.
Headquarters: World War II
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Ranked #8 for Chess Twist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
Headquarters: World War II is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game where your battlefield tactics are as important as your army management skills. Experience both sides of the war, battling in Europe as the USA, the UK, or Germany. Storm bunkers, occupy houses, win tank duels.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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 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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Chess Twist.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
NERTS! Online
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chess Twist.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chess Twist.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chess Twist.
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
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Frequently asked about Chess Twist
- Does Chess Twist have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chess Twist supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Chess Twist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess Twist are Chess Gambit, Sente, Leadville.
- Who developed Chess Twist?
- Chess Twist was developed by Guillaume Fradin.
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 Twist.
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