Games like Just Dots
If Just Dots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paper Flags, Chess Remix - Chess variants and Amakta — 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 Just Dots: The classic pen-and-paper game of Dots — place dots, close the loop around your opponent's, claim territory — now against a neural network that taught itself from scratch over millions of self-play games and beats its own creator. Grow from beginner to master. Any board size, local 2-player.
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Steam players who put hours into Just Dots 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 Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just Dots.
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.
Chess Remix - Chess variants
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Second-strongest match for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just Dots.
Experience the thrill of playing Chess like never before with Chess Remix. Try out different versions of Chess from around the world, historic board games, modern variations or even create your own original games
Amakta
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Third-strongest match for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just Dots.
A simultaneous turn based strategy board game. Outwit your oppenent, either a friend locally, a Steam friend online or the AI.
Branchbound
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Ranked #4 for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Just Dots.
Grow one luminous tree together. Choose a direction and colour, verify the branch, and never echo the colour of a neighbouring signal.
Spread: Transmission
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Ranked #5 for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just Dots.
Charge, spread and take over your opponents’ cells in the turn-based casual strategy board game Spread: Transmission! Assert your dominance across various unique islands. The game is not over until the last charge is captured, so flip the board with a single thought-out move.
Chess Twist
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Ranked #6 for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just Dots.
A mind-bending chess game, where straight lines turn and diagonals fork. Hundreds of different boards with new strategies hidden in plain sight.
Chess Mega Bundle
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Ranked #7 for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Just Dots.
Play hundreds of chess variants online or locally.
Sente
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Ranked #8 for Just Dots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just Dots.
Sente is a strategic board game where every player moves at the same time. Your victory isn't about acting first, it's about thinking ahead. Inspired by the clarity of Chess and Go, with a wholly original ruleset and support for 1–6 players.
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.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Just Dots.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Just Dots.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Just Dots.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Just Dots.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Just Dots.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Just Dots.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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 Just Dots.
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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Frequently asked about Just Dots
- Does Just Dots have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Just Dots supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Just Dots?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Just Dots are Paper Flags, Chess Remix - Chess variants, Amakta.
- Who developed Just Dots?
- Just Dots was developed by Little Cow.
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 Just Dots.
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