Games Like Shift Chess

Shift Chess

This is a chess variant in which players can “control the board” as a move action. The game supports online play, matches against AI, and local analysis.

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Just Xiangqi

85% 👍 OF 743
About This Game

This is a refreshing Chinese chess game with realistic graphics and a detailed audio tutorial that will keep you entertained, even as a novice. A variety of well-designed challenges will test your tactics. Sit back and relax, as you transform into a master of strategy.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rise Through Career Tournaments
  • …Solve Midgame Challenges
  • …Crack Endgame Positions
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Mini Motorways

96% 👍 OF 24K
About This Game

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …delete roads to reclaim pieces, but you have to wait for cars to clear the lane first.
  • …use "dummy" roads to block off empty space and influence where new houses and destinations can spawn.
  • …play daily and weekly challenges with special rule twists, including modes where roads become permanent and planning is final.
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Transport Fever 2

90% 👍 OF 33K
About This Game

The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …simulate huge maps where thousands of vehicles and every individual citizen are moving and choosing routes at once.
  • …add new cities and industries to an existing save, changing the whole economy mid-run.
  • …balance a supply chain and watch an industry upgrade and double its output.
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Door Kickers

94% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …plan a whole raid in advance, draw everyone's routes and commands, then hit play and watch it execute in seconds.
  • …pull off synchronized hits where multiple doors breach at once, flashbangs pop, and enemies get dropped at the same instant.
  • …choose how to open any door: pick the lock, kick it in, shoot the lock, or plant C4 and blow it apart.
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Motorsport Manager

92% 👍 OF 14K
About This Game

Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …vote on future rules and reshape the whole series over multiple seasons, from parts regulations to tracks and tyre rules.
  • …watch a championship swing when a rival car starts smoking, dies on track, and hands you the title in the final laps.
  • …deal with driver rivalries that escalate into contract ultimatums, refusals to re-sign, and forcing you to pick a side after winning.
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

87% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …pick from over a hundred unique heroes, each starting with different armies, skills, and spells.
  • …turn enemy casualties into your reinforcements when your vampires and liches drain life in battle.
  • …build up your city, then discover other factions' creature dwellings on the map and recruit them into a mixed army.
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Mr.Mine

92% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …meet a blueprint-selling golem vendor 50km underground.
  • …hit a turning point around km 300 where the mine becomes a monster-fight zone and you manually click enemies down to protect survivors.
  • …reach absurd depths over months of play, like pushing past the mantle and eventually drilling down into hell.
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Stranded: Alien Dawn

84% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Study Alien Wildlife
  • …Build Vertical Bases
  • …Farm Alien Crops
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Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

98% 👍 OF 155K
About This Game

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build and play with around 200 custom units you design yourself.
  • …set an "unkillable" custom hero against 200 peasants and still lose because they fall into the water.
  • …directly control a unit mid-battle and steer one wobbling fighter through the chaos up close.
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2

91% 👍 OF 46K
About This Game

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …take direct control of a soldier or tank to drive, aim manually, and swap ammo types mid-fight.
  • …disable an enemy tank, kill the crew, repair it, and crew it yourself to turn it back on its own side.
  • …collapse a building with an HE shot so the falling debris kills the gun crew hiding behind it.
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Game Dev Tycoon

95% 👍 OF 45K
About This Game

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build your own game console and release games on your own platform.
  • …have piracy become an in-game disaster that can wreck your sales on a cracked version.
  • …spend millions on a custom engine for a risky genre mashup, watch it flop, then save the studio by rushing out a safe sequel.
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Dawn of Man

87% 👍 OF 17K
About This Game

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Hunt Ice Age Giants
  • …Raise Crops and Herds
  • …Build Megalithic Monuments