Games like Magic Chess
If Magic Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paper Flags, 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 Magic Chess: Magic Chess is a strategy board game featuring multiple modes: magic chess, magic Chinese chess, and roguelike auto-chess.
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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.
Avante! Atlantis
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Second-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.
Lines of Battle
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Third-strongest match for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
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.
MightyKingdom
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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.
In a mythical realm, six ancient gods, battle for dominion. Strategically claim lands, outmaneuver rivals, and rise as the supreme power in this fast-paced conquest of territories—solo or in asynchronous online multiplayer.
Provinces
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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.
Provinces is a compact turn-based strategy game about leading your one and only army across a medievalish war board. Roll for Action Points, cut enemy supply lines, storm rival capitals and watch your tiny soldiers deal with the consequences in fast, automatic battles.
Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord
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Ranked #6 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Chess.
In Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord, you will find both the well-known game mechanics of the original game as well as many new features. A signature blend of RPG and strategy with turn-based tactical battles.
Dice chess
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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.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
The Conquest of Go
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Ranked #8 for Magic Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magic Chess.
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magic Chess.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 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
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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.).
The Expendabros
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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
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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, 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, Avante! Atlantis, Lines of Battle.
- 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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