Games like The Board is Yours
If The Board is Yours is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bogosort, Buttons Up! 2 and Idle Casino Empire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, competitive and funny. 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 The Board is Yours: The Board is Yours is a strategic chess-based incremental game: buy squares, unlock upgrades, and chain synergies through defended pieces. It plays as a demanding idle game where you’ll constantly reposition pieces and optimize your production until the board belongs to you.
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Bogosort
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Top pick for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
Bogosort.exe is an incremental idle game about chaos and sorting. Mix elements, earn resources, upgrade the system, and transform chaos into efficient growth. Discover new mechanics and optimize your progress.
Buttons Up! 2
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Second-strongest match for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
The Gnomes are back! Buttons Up! is a incremental button collecting game where you hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing intruders. Get those Buttons Up by buying and crafting buildings. Unlock new skills from the tech tree and automate your income!
Idle Casino Empire
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Third-strongest match for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
An idle casino tycoon where you build the floor, then rig it. Turn casino psychology into upgrades. Play blackjack, roulette, and slots in Owner Mode. Use the Owner's Edge to cheat: nudge reels, peek at hidden cards, read marked cards. Twelve games, eight venues, a prestige loop. The house is you.
Excremental Game
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Ranked #4 for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Board is Yours.
You're a little poop flushed away on a revenge mission to cover the world in poop! A chaotic incremental Poop-Shooter where bouncing poop earns points! Level up your poop, and unleash explosive, multi-poop madness!
Autodelve
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Ranked #5 for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
A watch-it-happen roguelike meets a deep incremental. Your challengers dive, fight, and fall on their own — you spend their legacy to make the next generation stronger, and send up to six delving at once. Idle progress worthy of a second monitor.
FLOWORKS
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Ranked #6 for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Sphere TD
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Ranked #7 for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
Sphere TD is a deep tower defense strategy game where you build every tower from scratch! NO presets! Route mods through grid layouts to fire projectiles: split, bounce, chain, pierce, multiply. A true one tower with 1,000,000 build combinations.
Singularity Echoes
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Ranked #8 for The Board is Yours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Board is Yours at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~60% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Board is Yours.
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 ~40% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Board is Yours.
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
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Priced ~60% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
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 ~60% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Board is Yours.
"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
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Priced ~60% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Board is Yours.
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 ~60% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Board is Yours.
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 ~60% under The Board is Yours on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Board is Yours.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Board is Yours.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Board is Yours.
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?
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Board is Yours.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Board is Yours.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Board is Yours.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Board is Yours.
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 The Board is Yours.
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 The Board is Yours.
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Frequently asked about The Board is Yours
- How much does The Board is Yours cost?
- The Board is Yours is listed on Steam at 2.50 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Board is Yours?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Board is Yours are Bogosort, Buttons Up! 2, Idle Casino Empire.
- Who developed The Board is Yours?
- The Board is Yours was developed by Draelent.
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 The Board is Yours.
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