Games like Chess Empire
If Chess Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chesstle, Animal Times and Perfect Chess — 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 Empire: A new kind of chess where you earn gold each turn to buy units and upgrade them with unique abilities. Fog of war hides enemy positions unless your pieces are close enough.
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Animal Times
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Second-strongest match for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Empire.
Command animal armies and conquer territories in this turn-based strategy game where every attack can backfire! Master blunder-style combat, where failed strikes let defenders capture your lands. Bold moves win big in this high-stakes battle for cunning victory.
Perfect Chess
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
Chess Designed Specially for GAMERS! Integrated with the XZ Tutorial, which teaches you everything to play a competitive and successful game Have a LESS Boring and More Dynamic and Competitive Game Awaken the "Grand Master" in you today!
Space Imperia 4X
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Ranked #4 for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Empire.
A faithful digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game Space Empires 4X by GMT Games, beloved by wargamers for almost two decades. Command the rise of your civilization and the fall of others, all in one to two hours.
The Conquest of Go
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Ranked #5 for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Undaunted Normandy
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Ranked #6 for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Empire.
Play the acclaimed World War 2 deck-building game. Use your cards to seize the initiative, bolster your forces, or control your troops on the battlefield. You will face intense resistance, machine gun fire, and mortar bombardment, but a great commander can turn the situation to their advantage!
Headquarters: World War II
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Ranked #7 for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess Empire.
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.
Valor & Victory
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Ranked #8 for Chess Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
Valor & Victory is a fast-playing, easy to learn World War II squad-level game system. Based on the original Valor & Victory board game, the digital edition provides you with an accessible and deep challenge, developed for classic tabletop game lovers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chess Empire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chess Empire.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Chess Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
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!
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
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!
100 Capitalist Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
🐱💼 100 Capitalist Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Wall Street! 😻💰💵 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of New York, heart of Capitalism, as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
A Park Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Empire.
Welcome to 'A Park Full of Cats,' a hidden object game that invites you to revel in the enchanting world of amusement parks! Experience the thrill and excitement of the rides and give those cats the fun they truly deserve!
100 Ninja Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess Empire.
🐱🥋100 Ninja Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Ninja themed 🗡️ locations full of cats! Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of the Ninja places and Cats as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
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Frequently asked about Chess Empire
- How much does Chess Empire cost?
- Chess Empire is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Chess Empire have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chess Empire supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Chess Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess Empire are Chesstle, Animal Times, Perfect Chess.
- Who developed Chess Empire?
- Chess Empire was developed by Blue Alpaca 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 Chess Empire.
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