Games like Chess of Blades
If Chess of Blades is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, 寄甡 Symbiotic Love and Highway Blossoms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Chess of Blades: At a huge celebration in a secluded fantasy castle, the young nobleman Rivian is faced with murder, mystery, and romance in a whirlwind tale of dangerous intrigue.
Players who liked Chess of Blades also play
Steam players who put hours into Chess of Blades 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.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Chess of Blades.
Top pick for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. Are you ready? Hi ready, I'm Dad.
寄甡 Symbiotic Love
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Chess of Blades.
Second-strongest match for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
《寄甡》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏，讲述了一场现代百合版、宛如“罗密欧与朱丽叶”的凄美爱情故事。
Highway Blossoms
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Third-strongest match for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
A yuri visual novel about Amber, a girl who's trying her best to be alone on the road, until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. Fully voiced in English.
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Ranked #4 for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War is the sequel to the popular free-to-play otome game, Seduce Me the Otome. It follows the story of Mika Anderson as she is suddenly thrown into the Abyssal Plains right before she is about to be married to one of the five Incubi Brothers featured in the first game.
Heart of the Woods
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and a whimsical mood with Chess of Blades.
Ranked #5 for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
A fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. When Maddie and her best friend, Tara, journey to a remote forest village to investigate rumors of the supernatural, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.
Back from the other world, I missed love.
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
Defeat the Demon King and find your next adventure in an office with goddess-like colleagues. You, as a rookie hero with magical powers, connect with captivating stars like Saika Kawakita, Ai Uehara, and Yui Mihama.
咕啾！文鸟恋爱物语 Love Story of Sparrow
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Chess of Blades.
Ranked #7 for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
“上学途中惊现电车痴汉？好兄弟满脑子是关于我的黄色废料？生活终于要对我这只小公雀下手了吗┭┮﹏┭┮”，欢迎各位走进大型鸟类恋爱ACG游戏——《咕啾！文鸟恋爱物语》。
Heaven Will Be Mine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Ranked #8 for Chess of Blades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
HEAVEN WILL BE MINE is a visual novel about making terrible life decisions in the midst of a hot-blooded battle between giant robots. Select one of three terribly behaved girls to fight and/or make out with each other in their struggle for the fate of space.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chess of Blades at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Chess of Blades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Chess of Blades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Chess of Blades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Chess of Blades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Chess of Blades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Chess of Blades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
It gets so lonely here
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
Killer Chat! - Original Edition
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Argent Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Argent Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Red Embrace: Hollywood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Another title from Argent Games, the studio behind Chess of Blades. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
1996—Los Angeles, CA. A young newcomer is turned into a vampire and thrust into the dark underworld of society, forced to sink or swim. You are that newcomer.
Red Embrace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Another title from Argent Games, the studio behind Chess of Blades. Shares Casual with Chess of Blades.
A normal graveyard shift at a dingy diner in San Francisco... until a mysterious customer arrives, bringing with him a war between vampires.
Requiescence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Another title from Argent Games, the studio behind Chess of Blades. Shares Casual with Chess of Blades.
Dive into the story of Kymil, a young ice mage on a quest to unravel the mystery behind his uncle's death. As the world you know shatters around you, will you find a place for romance while the stakes climb higher?
Pale Cachexia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Another title from Argent Games, the studio behind Chess of Blades. Shares Casual with Chess of Blades.
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Self-Checkout Unlimited
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chess of Blades.
Another title from Argent Games, the studio behind Chess of Blades. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.
Explore and unravel the mall of your mind in this surreal adventure game.
Frequently asked about Chess of Blades
- How much does Chess of Blades cost?
- Chess of Blades is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chess of Blades?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess of Blades are Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, 寄甡 Symbiotic Love, Highway Blossoms.
- Who developed Chess of Blades?
- Chess of Blades was developed by Argent Games.
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