Games like Chinese Chess
If Chinese Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Kingdom, 3D Chess Online and The Chess Variants Club — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its culturally immersive environments, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Chinese 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.
Chess Kingdom
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Chess.
Chess for every kind of player. Whether you're learning the rules or hunting a Legend rank, there's a place for you in the kingdom.
3D Chess Online
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
The Chess Variants Club
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Chinese Chess.
Third-strongest match for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
Chess Cubed
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Don't give up - Turn things around! Chess Cubed offers the first, true 3D Chess Experience! Play others in a new uncharted world of chess where the books on strategies of old mean nothing. Defeat challengers from all directions and raise your flag in this new world!
Fortune Avenue
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Dice chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Triple Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Triple Chess reimagines classic chess with three stacked boards and vertical movement, creating deeper strategy, new tactics, and thrilling multi-level battles.
CHESS with LASERS
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Ranked #8 for Chinese Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Obliterate the enemy's king with your laser by strategically moving/rotating mirrors, portals and more in this mind-bending chess-like game. Challenge your friends or battle an AI (includes Level Editor)!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chinese Chess at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chinese Chess.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chinese Chess.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chinese Chess.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chinese Chess.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chinese Chess.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chinese Chess.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chinese Chess on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chinese Chess.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Idle Research
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Tactical Monsters Rumble Arena
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Are you ready to RUMMMBLE?
Prismata
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.
Jigsaw Puzzles Infinite
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Sit back, relax and build puzzles to your heart's content. Assemble one of the many included puzzles, or add your own images. Customize size and shape of the pieces for any puzzle. Enjoy Classic mode or try out Zen mode for a new type of puzzle experience.
Rogue Agent
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Rogue Agent is a turn-based strategy game, fast-paced, that pits the player against the computer on a secret service thriller around the world.
Banker Simulator: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Chess.
Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.
Hard Times
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chinese Chess.
Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.
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Frequently asked about Chinese Chess
- How much does Chinese Chess cost?
- Chinese Chess is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Chinese Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chinese Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Chinese Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chinese Chess are Chess Kingdom, 3D Chess Online, The Chess Variants Club.
- Who developed Chinese Chess?
- Chinese Chess was developed by Wang Wenxi.
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 Chinese Chess.
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