Games like Branchbound
If Branchbound 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Branchbound 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 Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
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
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
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
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
A simultaneous turn based strategy board game. Outwit your oppenent, either a friend locally, a Steam friend online or the AI.
Corners Arena
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Ranked #4 for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
Lead a squad of 3D sentinels across a living strategy board. Step, build long jump chains, and occupy the rival corner first in local two-player matches or against an easy or tactical computer opponent.
Sente
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Ranked #5 for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
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.
Hexteria
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Ranked #6 for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
Hexteria is a casual Turn-Based Strategy and Puzzle game. The concept is simple: each turn you rotate one tile on the hexagonal board, in order to take over your opponents' tiles. Play against your friends or the AI, or challenge yourself with the Single Player Campaign!
Just Dots
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Ranked #7 for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Branchbound.
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 and beats its own creator. Grow from beginner to master. Any board size, local 2-player.
Chess Twist
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Ranked #8 for Branchbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Branchbound.
A mind-bending chess game, where straight lines turn and diagonals fork. Hundreds of different boards with new strategies hidden in plain sight.
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 Branchbound.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Branchbound.
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 Branchbound.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Branchbound.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Branchbound.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Branchbound.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Branchbound.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
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!
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More from Digitable
Other recommendable Steam games by Digitable, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Lady with the Dog
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Another title from Digitable, the studio behind Branchbound.
Chekhov's quiet masterpiece becomes a cinematic visual novel about longing, choice, and the impossible shape of an honest life.
Corners Arena
WHY THIS
Another title from Digitable, the studio behind Branchbound. Shares Strategy and Indie with Branchbound.
Lead a squad of 3D sentinels across a living strategy board. Step, build long jump chains, and occupy the rival corner first in local two-player matches or against an easy or tactical computer opponent.
Crime and Punishment
WHY THIS
Another title from Digitable, the studio behind Branchbound. Shares Indie with Branchbound.
Dostoevsky’s complete, unabridged Russian text staged as a visual novel, with illustrated scenes and optional choices that preserve the original.
Frequently asked about Branchbound
- Does Branchbound have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Branchbound supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Branchbound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Branchbound are Paper Flags, Chess Remix - Chess variants, Amakta.
- Who developed Branchbound?
- Branchbound was developed by Digitable, Marat Zimnurov and published by Digitable, Marat Zimnurov.
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 Branchbound.
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