Free games like Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
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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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
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.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
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.
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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ON&OFF
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
ON&OFF is a turn-based strategy game where you manipulate pieces on a grid to trigger explosive chain reactions. Toggle pieces ON to attack, defend, and heal. Read the enemy's telegraphed intents, unleash powerful skills, and master the board to survive!
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Berserk Heroes Online
Free-to-play alternative to Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Checkmate: The Red General’s Last Move.
Welcome to Laar, the world of epic battles and true heroes. Take part in thrilling fights, devise cunning strategies, and make your own invincible deck out of 350+ cards available. Become a great warlord in the digital version of the iconic card-collecting tabletop game Berserk Heroes.