Games like Turnabout Tactics
If Turnabout Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unlock The King, Knight Swap and Chess Brain — 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 Turnabout Tactics: A chess puzzle game where you play both sides, no opponent, no checkmate. Each level sets its own objectives. Some pieces explode when captured, others freeze or shield the squares around them, and some move right through other pieces. Rewind freely until every objective is met at once.
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Unlock The King
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Top pick for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Turnabout Tactics.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Knight Swap
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Second-strongest match for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?
Chess Brain
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Third-strongest match for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
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!
Chesskoban - Chess Puzzles
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Ranked #4 for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
Relaxing puzzle game for chess lovers and beginners using a combination of sokoban and chess mechanics. If you like Chess you will enjoy playing it!
CUBOID
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Ranked #5 for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
CUBOID is a challenging spatial puzzle game with minimalist design, where you progress through a labyrinth of levels using a unique mechanic of merging with world blocks.
Chessformer
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Ranked #6 for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Turnabout Tactics.
Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.
Sudoku Zenkai / 数独全卡
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Ranked #7 for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
Sudoku Zenkai is a game for everyone, from beginning to advanced players. It brings a new dimension to sudoku - you can solve puzzles with your friends, wherever they are! You can start a new puzzle with a friend or call one over to help when you get stuck.
Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
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Ranked #8 for Turnabout Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
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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 Turnabout Tactics.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Turnabout Tactics.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Turnabout Tactics.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Turnabout Tactics.
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.
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 Turnabout Tactics.
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!
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Frequently asked about Turnabout Tactics
- What games are most similar to Turnabout Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Turnabout Tactics are Unlock The King, Knight Swap, Chess Brain.
- Who developed Turnabout Tactics?
- Turnabout Tactics was developed by Interlink Games.
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