Games like ChessBase 18 Steam Edition
If ChessBase 18 Steam Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fritz 18 Steam Edition, Lazy Chess and Fritz - Your chess coach — 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 ChessBase 18 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.
Players who liked ChessBase 18 Steam Edition also play
Steam players who put hours into ChessBase 18 Steam Edition 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.
Fritz 18 Steam Edition
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Top pick for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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.
Lazy Chess
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Second-strongest match for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
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.
Fritz - Your chess coach
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Third-strongest match for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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.
BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons
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Ranked #4 for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Nowadays everyone is a self-proclaimed chess player! Quite different from the soviet kids back in the old days. Maybe you are not so lazy and really want to improve your chess knowledge. Surprise me!
Unlock The King
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Ranked #5 for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Chess Brain
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Ranked #6 for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
Knight Swap
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Ranked #7 for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
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?
Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
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Ranked #8 for ChessBase 18 Steam Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ChessBase 18 Steam Edition at current Steam store prices.
Baldur's Gate 3
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Priced ~74% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~92% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~88% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~76% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~79% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~79% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~86% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 ~93% under ChessBase 18 Steam Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.
ABI-DOS
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Cracking the Cryptic
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Curated Sudoku puzzles from YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking the Cryptic!
MATH EXPRESSions
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
WORDLE for math fans. The perfect daily warm-up routine for your brain.
Chess'Extra
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Chess'Extra is a new free chess game with a 10x10 board and 2 new pieces: Priest and Assassin. Additional game modes "Traps", "Reinforcements", "Fog of war" and "Random positions" are available. Basic Chess available.
Raifu Wars
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
Strategize and battle for victory in this cute multiplayer turn-based strategy featuring bolt-action rifle girls!
Game Of Puzzles: Animals
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 Steam Edition.
A puzzle game in which you have to assemble a single image from individual pieces.
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More from ChessBase GmbH
Other recommendable Steam games by ChessBase GmbH, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FritzChess 15
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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!
ChessBase 17 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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 - Your chess coach
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase 18 Steam Edition. Shares Strategy with ChessBase 18 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.
Frequently asked about ChessBase 18 Steam Edition
- How much does ChessBase 18 Steam Edition cost?
- ChessBase 18 Steam Edition is listed on Steam at 169.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ChessBase 18 Steam Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ChessBase 18 Steam Edition are Fritz 18 Steam Edition, Lazy Chess, Fritz - Your chess coach.
- Who developed ChessBase 18 Steam Edition?
- ChessBase 18 Steam Edition was developed by ChessBase GmbH.
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