What are the best Chess games?

Top Chess games include Dota Underlords, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, Simply Chess, Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate, Fritz Chess 14. These games are ranked by how strongly players have tagged them with Chess.

What does Chess mean in games?

Chess is a Steam tag used by players to describe games with specific gameplay characteristics. Games with more Chess votes have stronger community agreement that they fit this category.

What tags are closest to Chess?

Tags commonly found alongside Chess include Strategy, Board Game, Singleplayer, Tabletop, Casual. You can combine tags on Nodal to find games that match multiple categories.

How are Chess games ranked?

Games are ranked by the number of player votes for the "Chess" tag. Higher vote counts indicate stronger community agreement that a game fits this category. You can also switch between relevance, similarity, and ordering modes.

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This game is so unique, our recommendation model hasn't found any similar games yet.

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How to Use This Page

Explore the best games in this tag category, and optionally tune the results to match your taste. Add more tags to narrow your search or find games that span multiple categories.

What do the different models mean?

•Relevance: Highlights games that strongly match all selected tags, while gently favoring games players tend to enjoy and engage with.
•Tag Ordering: Surfaces games where your chosen tags are central to the experience, not just loosely associated.
•Tag Model: Finds games whose overall tag makeup is most similar to what you selected and rewards more niche games.
•Blend: Combines two models and lets you control the balance to fine-tune results.

What is the graph showing?

•It's a "map of Steam tags." The graph uses tag data only to position games based on their tag profiles.
•Position = tag similarity (compressed). Games with similar tags appear near each other.
•Size = popularity. Bigger nodes = more widely played games.

How does re-ranking work?

The re-ranking sliders let you personalize the list without changing the underlying model.

•All sliders at 0 = default ranking for the current model.
•Add weights to emphasize what you care about (more niche, more recent, higher rated, etc.).

Frequently Asked Questions

How are tags assigned to games?

Steam users vote on which tags apply to each game. We use these community votes to calculate tag probabilities and rankings. Higher scores mean stronger community agreement.

Can I add more tags?

Yes! Use the search to add more tags. Games matching ALL selected tags will be ranked using a harmonic mean to find games that genuinely fit all categories.

Why does the #1 game score ~95%?

Scores are normalized so they're best interpreted as relative rankings. What matters is how games compare to each other, not the absolute percentage.

Quick Tips

•Add genre tags to narrow down broad categories like 'Indie'
•Use the year filter to find recent hidden gems
•Try Blend mode to combine different scoring approaches
•Click around the graph to discover related categories