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Games like Chess Flicks

If Chess Flicks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Old Salt, Winning Tactics and Argebe — 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 Chess Flicks: Chess meets billiards. Flick your pieces like a cue stick — aim, pull back, and launch. Every collision counts. Can you knock the opponent's king off the board?

2026IndieSimulationCasual0.59 USDWindowsby JDL
Chess Flicks — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Chess Flicks 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. Old Salt

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chess Flicks.

    A Naval Strategy With No Reinforcements On The Way. Command a Custom Fleet with faction abilities in Multiplayer matches or Faction Campaigns.

    2025StrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Winning Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Your mission is to defend the castle, using its power to summon warriors at crucial moments of the battle

    2025ActionSportsStrategy0.79 USDSteam ↗
  3. Argebe

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Flicks.

    A deliberately simplistic strategy game about equal opportunities and outplaying your opponents with stone cold logic

    2025StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. SYRAK: the War in the Middle-East

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chess Flicks.

    SYRAK is a card-based strategy game set during the most complex war in recent history of the Middle-East. Local or Online game have you play as the Resistance Axis or the Western Defence Organization. Use powerful Political, Espionage and Military Cards to outwit and overwhelm your opponent.

    2022StrategySimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Unity of Command II

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chess Flicks.

    Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Attack on Toys

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chess Flicks.

    Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Chess Flicks.

    Lead your fighters to Glory in the ultimate PvP dice-and-cards strategy combat game. Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition pits mighty warbands against one another in an eternal battle for glory in the realms of the Age of Sigmar.

    2020StrategyCasual29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Panzer Corps 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Chess Flicks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.

    2020Strategy39.99 USDSteam ↗

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    WHY THIS

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

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  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Flicks.

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  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chess Flicks.

    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?

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  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chess Flicks.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess Flicks.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess Flicks.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

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  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chess Flicks.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chess Flicks.

    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!

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Frequently asked about Chess Flicks

How much does Chess Flicks cost?
Chess Flicks is listed on Steam at 0.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Chess Flicks have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Chess Flicks supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Chess Flicks?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess Flicks are Old Salt, Winning Tactics, Argebe.
Who developed Chess Flicks?
Chess Flicks was developed by JDL.

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 Flicks.

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