Games like Football Chess
If Football Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Ultra, TOUHOU GENSOU MAHJONG and Unlock The King — 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 Football Chess: Every player on the pitch is a chess piece. Make the right move, disrupt your opponent's strategy, create the perfect attack, and take the shot. The excitement of football meets the strategy of chess in one unique game.
Players who liked Football Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Football Chess 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.
Chess Ultra
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Top pick for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Chess.
Introducing Chess Ultra; the most breathtaking chess game ever made. Experience stunning 4K visuals, seamless online multiplayer, Grandmaster approved AI and full VR compatibility.
TOUHOU GENSOU MAHJONG
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Second-strongest match for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Football Chess.
Engage in all manner of Mahjong! From standard matches to total chaos, featuring over 130 Touhou characters from 20+ entries! The match of your dreams awaits!
Unlock The King
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Third-strongest match for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Football Chess.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
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Ranked #4 for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Chess.
Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.
Mahjong World Contest (麻将)
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Ranked #5 for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Chess.
Join a Mahjong contest. Complete over 100 unique levels to gain experience and points. Improve your rank and progress.
3D Chess
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Ranked #6 for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Chess.
A unique chess trip with exciting instant duels awaits you - test your mettle on the chessboard. Checkmate your opponent with only a few moves and solve challenging chess puzzles in amazing 3D worlds.
Drop Pockets
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Ranked #7 for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Chess.
The billiards roguelike. Strategic, physics based combat against Pool Sharks who don't play by the rules. Pocket your balls and clear out your opposition in this chaotic game of pool!
Puzzline
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Ranked #8 for Football Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Football Chess.
Puzzline is a 2-4 player board game connecting cards like a puzzle! Each card has a unique effect. Play them strategically and get the victory! Online play is also supported!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Football Chess.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Football Chess.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
DOGWALK
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Football Chess.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Football Chess.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Rec Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Football Chess.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Football Chess.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
FPS Chess
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Football Chess.
Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent's pieces until you've beaten their king and won the game.
Bloons TD Battles 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Football Chess.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
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Frequently asked about Football Chess
- Does Football Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Football Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Football Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Football Chess are Chess Ultra, TOUHOU GENSOU MAHJONG, Unlock The King.
- Who developed Football Chess?
- Football Chess was developed by PEGAX Studios.
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 Football Chess.
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