Games like Paper Flags
If Paper Flags is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pawn'd Chess, Avante! Atlantis and Lines of Battle — 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 Paper Flags: A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.
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Steam players who put hours into Paper Flags 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.
Pawn'd Chess
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Top pick for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
Play, study, and improve at your own pace in a chess trainer with human-like, skill-matched AI, full FEN tools, local hotseat, and ranked play or pressure-free practice.
Avante! Atlantis
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Second-strongest match for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
Lead the world's greatest Strategists through a virtual war. Decide how humanity will approach the mysterious island of Atlantis.
Lines of Battle
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Third-strongest match for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
Command armies in tactical battles with simultaneous turns during the Napoleonic Wars. Lead forces through single-player strategy campaigns, master formations and flanking tactics, then test your skills in competitive 1v1 and 4v4 battles.
Old Salt
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Ranked #4 for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
A Naval Strategy With No Reinforcements On The Way. Command a Custom Fleet with faction abilities in Multiplayer matches or Faction Campaigns.
Flip & Conquer
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Ranked #5 for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
A coin decides every battle — you decide everything else: the target, the stake, the cards you spring. Not luck, nerve. Wager one square or your whole border and take the map. Learn it in one round, play it all night — up to 8 empires online, or a branching campaign solo.
KINGS QUARTERS
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Ranked #6 for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
A turn-based strategy board game for 2 or 4 players, with online and local multiplayer. Command soldiers, towers, and kings to outmaneuver your opponent and capture their king or claim their corner.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Ranked #7 for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Paper Flags.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
Dice chess
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Ranked #8 for Paper Flags fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Flags.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Flags.
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!
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Flags.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Flags.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paper Flags.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Paper Flags.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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 Paper Flags.
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!
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Frequently asked about Paper Flags
- Does Paper Flags have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Paper Flags supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Paper Flags?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Flags are Pawn'd Chess, Avante! Atlantis, Lines of Battle.
- Who developed Paper Flags?
- Paper Flags was developed by Winterlude Interactive.
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 Paper Flags.
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