Games like Tatsu
If Tatsu is your kind of game, the closest matches are Khet 2.0, Hive and Simply Chess — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and relaxing. 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 Tatsu: Japanese legend tells of a great battle between two mighty Dragon Lord armies, locked in combat on the peaks of Mount Hotaka, competing to win the hand of the Princess Kushinada, the last and most beautiful of eight sisters.
Players who liked Tatsu also play
Steam players who put hours into Tatsu 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.
Khet 2.0
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Tatsu.
Top pick for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
Hive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tatsu.
Second-strongest match for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
Simply Chess
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Tatsu.
Third-strongest match for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
Wyrmspan
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Wyrmspan is an engine-building, card-driven strategy game for 1 to 5 players. Play as an amateur dracologist discovering a world of dragons. Excavate caves and explore your sanctuary. Entice dragons and chain their abilities to create powerful combos.
Through the Ages
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Legendary board game classic from award winning designer Vlaada Chvátil
Steam: Rails to Riches
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tatsu.
Ranked #7 for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
The official version of one of the best board games - Steam: Rails to Riches. Take control of a railway company, issue shares, build railroads, deliver goods along an network of tracks and stations and make profit to expand.
Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tatsu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tatsu.
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Tatsu
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Senet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tatsu.
Reviewers of Tatsu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Tatsu.
Digital adaptation of the ancient Egyptian game Senet for two players, featuring authentic 3D replicas of boards displayed in museums. Enjoy family-friendly, turn-based strategy rooted in history.
Hive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tatsu.
Reviewers of Tatsu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
Backgammon
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Tatsu.
Reviewers of Tatsu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
The classic board game of all times, with gorgeous graphics, computer opponent, and intuitive interface.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tatsu at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tatsu.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tatsu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tatsu.
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.
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More from BlueLine Games
Other recommendable Steam games by BlueLine Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tatsu.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Tatsu. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
Khet 2.0
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Tatsu.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Tatsu. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
Othello
WHY THIS
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Tatsu. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
The classic abstract strategy game comes to Steam! Othello is an ageless game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Place tiles surrounding your opponents tiles to flip them to your color. Get to the end with more tiles of your color and you are the winner!
Simply Chess
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Tatsu.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Tatsu. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
Lost Cities
WHY THIS
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Tatsu. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tatsu.
Officially licensed version of the award winning Lost Cities by Reiner Knizia. Plan your expeditions wisely to outpace your rival's pursuits! After 3 rounds of adventuring, the player that had the most successful expeditions is the winner!
Frequently asked about Tatsu
- How much does Tatsu cost?
- Tatsu is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Tatsu have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tatsu supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Tatsu?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tatsu are Khet 2.0, Hive, Simply Chess.
- Who developed Tatsu?
- Tatsu was developed by BlueLine 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 Tatsu.
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