Games like KNIGHTS
If KNIGHTS is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Chess Variants Club, Absurd Chess and Chess Morph: The Queen's Wormholes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its knight movement feels hypnotic, chill and contemplative. 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 KNIGHTS: KNIGHTS is a minimalist puzzle game based on a single chess piece, the titular knight. A simple enough to pick up and relaxing experience.
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Steam players who put hours into KNIGHTS 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.
The Chess Variants Club
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with KNIGHTS.
Top pick for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with KNIGHTS.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
Absurd Chess
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with KNIGHTS.
Compete against up to 100 players in various, REALLY absurd chess modes never seen before! You will have to adapt to new rules and develop your own tactics that will allow you to dominate the board.
Chess Morph: The Queen's Wormholes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with KNIGHTS.
An original puzzle game inspired by chess. Control a lonely Queen with shapeshifting abilities and defeat the enemy army. Move wisely, explore the wormholes on the board, take the enemy shape and kill them all.
Lazy Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with KNIGHTS.
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.
Chess Brain
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with KNIGHTS.
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!
icosi-do
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with KNIGHTS.
Your superpower is your patience. Nurture it with this minimalist puzzle based on pure logic: swap pairs of colored rods such that all four rods that meet in any of 30 corners have different colors. Thousands of problems await you: from trivial to superhuman difficult.
Puzzle & Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with KNIGHTS.
Puzzle & Chess is a relaxing and minimalist game that mixes puzzle challenges with chess moves. Click on pieces, solve the puzzles with a pleasant and relaxing environment. You don't need to know how to play chess to have fun. No score, no timer and no pressure.
Domino Fit
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with KNIGHTS.
Ranked #8 for KNIGHTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with KNIGHTS.
Can you Domino Fit? The best parts of sudoku, mixed with those little tiling puzzles you'd play at the dentist, Domino Fit is a rewarding logic puzzle about getting all the dominos to fit! Supports 6x6, 7x7, and 8x8 boards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below KNIGHTS at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under KNIGHTS on Steam right now. Shares Casual with KNIGHTS.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under KNIGHTS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with KNIGHTS.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under KNIGHTS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with KNIGHTS.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under KNIGHTS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with KNIGHTS.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under KNIGHTS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with KNIGHTS.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KNIGHTS.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KNIGHTS.
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?
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 Casual with KNIGHTS.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KNIGHTS.
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.
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 KNIGHTS.
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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Frequently asked about KNIGHTS
- Does KNIGHTS run on Steam Deck?
- KNIGHTS is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does KNIGHTS cost?
- KNIGHTS is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to KNIGHTS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside KNIGHTS are The Chess Variants Club, Absurd Chess, Chess Morph: The Queen's Wormholes.
- Who developed KNIGHTS?
- KNIGHTS was developed by Arzola's.
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 KNIGHTS.
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