Games like Magic Chess
If Magic Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paper Flags, PERFECT SNAP: Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles and Avante! Atlantis — 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 Magic Chess: Magic Chess, inspired by Chess and Chinese Chess, breaks free from traditional boundaries by introducing brand-new pieces and items. The game supports Single Player, Custom Matches, Local Multiplayer, and Online Random Matchmaking.
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Steam players who put hours into Magic 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.
Paper Flags
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Top pick for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
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.
PERFECT SNAP: Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
Turn any image into a 3D jigsaw puzzle! Solve solo or with friends (co-op & PvP), display your masterpieces in a customizable 3D museum, and visit everyone else's. Personalize your character and take on the 100-level campaign, from easy puzzles all the way to 1000 pieces.
Avante! Atlantis
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
Lead the world's greatest Strategists through a virtual war. Decide how humanity will approach the mysterious island of Atlantis.
Tabletop Galaxy
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Ranked #4 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
10 turn-based board and card games. Play, share, host, or spectate! A lobby system designed for whichever! Tweak the difficulty to play at your desired level.
Endless Tactics: Trial Run
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Ranked #5 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
The prologue to Endless Tactics. Defend a planetary mining expedition, upgrade your ship, and survive alien hordes in this turn-based roguelite trial run.
Klaus Veen's Bastards
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Ranked #6 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
Bastards is an online, fast-paced and tactical card game for 2-8 players. Take turns playing cards from low to high: 3 is the lowest, 2 the highest. Be first to get rid of your hand to become President. Finish last, and you’ll become the Bastard!
Forsworn
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Ranked #7 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.
Voxel Gambit
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Ranked #8 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Magic Chess.
Classic chess reborn as a 3D tactical RPG. Command unique pieces based on RPG classes across procedurally generated battlefields. Manage your action points, test your units' 'effort' and survive an adaptive AI on dynamic maps. The board has evolved.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magic Chess.
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 Magic Chess.
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 Magic Chess.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magic Chess.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magic Chess.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
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Frequently asked about Magic Chess
- Does Magic Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Magic Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Magic Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Magic Chess are Paper Flags, PERFECT SNAP: Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles, Avante! Atlantis.
- Who developed Magic Chess?
- Magic Chess was developed by DreamBridge.
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 Magic Chess.
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