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Games like Chesstris

If Chesstris is your kind of game, the closest matches are Janggi, Radial Chess and Chess Master Quest - Idle — 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.

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About Chesstris: Chess meets Tetris in a series of handcrafted puzzles. Drop chess pieces to checkmate rival kings while avoiding checkmating your own. Become a beloved champion or a despised victor, find true love or ruin friendships. In Chesstris, your choices in and out of puzzles shape your destiny!

StrategyWindowsby DragonDrak Games
Chesstris — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Chesstris 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.

  1. Janggi

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    Janggi - Korean Chess

    2026StrategyCasual6.79 USDSteam ↗
  2. Radial Chess

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    Radial Chess is a chess game that preserves all traditional rules and mechanics while reimagining the board as a radial spatial structure, where players compete against AI or locally in a transformed geometric interpretation of classic chess.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  3. Chess Master Quest - Idle

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    Learn Chess. Real Progression. Idle Mode. Solve 10,000+ tactical puzzles, study grandmaster games, and climb from a park bench to the World Championship through deep idle mechanics, Grandmaster training, and RPG-style stat growth.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.02 USDSteam ↗
  4. Chesscent

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    Chesscent is a pixel art turn-based strategy roguelite that blends classic chess with rule-breaking cards. Face impossible rivals, embrace defeat, and unlock new permanent abilities to change the outcome of the match.

    2026StrategyCasual7.19 USDSteam ↗
  5. Chess Morph: The Queen's Wormholes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    An original puzzle game inspired by chess. Control a lonely Queen with shapeshifting abilities and defeat the enemy army. Move wisely, explore the wormholes on the board, take the enemy shape and kill them all.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Lazy Chess

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. ChessCraft

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    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.

    2021StrategyCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Knight Swap

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Chesstris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chesstris.

    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?

    2019StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗

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  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    WHY THIS

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  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    WHY THIS

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    WHY THIS

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Frequently asked about Chesstris

What games are most similar to Chesstris?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chesstris are Janggi, Radial Chess, Chess Master Quest - Idle.
Who developed Chesstris?
Chesstris was developed by DragonDrak 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 Chesstris.

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