Games like Chess: Apex
If Chess: Apex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Imperia 4X, Abalon Arena: Multiplayer Card Tactics and Aegis Of Kings — 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.
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Space Imperia 4X
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess: Apex.
A faithful digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game Space Empires 4X by GMT Games, beloved by wargamers for almost two decades. Command the rise of your civilization and the fall of others, all in one to two hours.
Abalon Arena: Multiplayer Card Tactics
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Cards, tactics and mutant squirrels! Enter the arena and compete head to head, play cooperatively or go it alone to defeat increasingly challenging onslaughts of enemies in a cunning game of wits set in the fantastical world of Abalon.
Aegis Of Kings
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess: Apex.
Lead your kingdom to victory in this sandbox grand strategy RPG. Command heroes and monsters, capture castles, and customize your forces to your needs. Fight for the Aegis solo, join friends in co-op, or face rivals head-to-head.
Tumble Tavern
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
A push-your-luck dice game where one throw can take everything. Build a six-die loadout, carry three runestones and read the rival across the table. Bank too early and you lose the race. Bank too late and you lose the lot.
Pawn'd Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Play, study, and improve at your own pace in a chess trainer with human-like, skill-matched AI, full FEN tools, local hotseat, and ranked play or pressure-free practice.
Gridhammer
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Gridhammer is a tactical plate battler where two players draft from one shared pool of 45 plates. Place plates on a grid, capture by matching higher corner values, and chain cascading flips. Every plate you draft is one your opponent loses.
Ashbane
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chess: Apex.
Ashbane is a turn-based tactics RPG built around expeditions. Recruit Freeblades, grow your roster, and deploy a warband to accept paid jobs or launch your own raids. Choose your path, push deeper, and bear the cost.
Efemeris - DTDA Games
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Chess: Apex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
Efemeris is an strategy boardgame dedicated to 2 players.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
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.).
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chess: Apex.
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!
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SCP-479: Shadows of the Mind
WHY THIS
Another title from Netherlate Games, the studio behind Chess: Apex. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
You are a Class D personnel on an experimental mission for the Foundation to investigate SCP-479. The facility is linked to anomalies affecting the human psyche, gradually driving them insane. Please remember to take your pills.
Inferno Pathways
WHY THIS
Another title from Netherlate Games, the studio behind Chess: Apex. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
Descend into the abandoned metro in Inferno Pathways, a first-person psychological horror game. Navigate dark tunnels, solve puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Confront your deepest fears and piece together the haunting story of Mike Collins. Can you escape the darkness?
Monolith: Dark Matter
WHY THIS
Another title from Netherlate Games, the studio behind Chess: Apex. Shares Indie with Chess: Apex.
A round-based FPS for 1–4 players set inside the Monolith — a brutalist complex shaped by living black matter. Fight escalating waves of its marionettes, earn points to unlock new sectors and build your arsenal, and uncover the route to a final encounter.
Frequently asked about Chess: Apex
- Does Chess: Apex have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chess: Apex supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Chess: Apex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess: Apex are Space Imperia 4X, Abalon Arena: Multiplayer Card Tactics, Aegis Of Kings.
- Who developed Chess: Apex?
- Chess: Apex was developed by Netherlate Games.
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 Chess: Apex.
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