Games Like Ant War: Domination

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Management 27.6%, Strategy 20.6%, Simulation 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive ant colony simulation that perfectly mirrors the expansion and combat mechanics of the seed game.

Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

Why similar: Management 24.4%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 18.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: An insect-themed RTS that focuses on swarm management and base-building against human threats.

Conquer enemy nests and lead your colony through the perils of the forest in this groundbreaking RTS. Empire of the Ants is a photorealistic, third-person real-time strategy game where you command your insect legions in epic battles.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity strategy game that puts you in control of an ant colony with a focus on tactical warfare and environmental interaction.

Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.

Why similar: Management 33.6%, Strategy 21.6%, Simulation 19.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Casual 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the evolution and management of insect populations in a hostile world.

Begin a journey like no other, become the Ant Queen and establish your empire. Ant Queen is a simulation game where you breed different types of ants to ultimately conquer your surroundings and achieve a stable ant colony.

Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Simulation 40.3%, Indie 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the core simulation aspects of maintaining an ant colony.

A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.

Why similar: Strategy 58.6%, Simulation 31.2%, Singleplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced RTS that focuses on managing a swarm of insectoid creatures in a humorous, auto-battler style.

On a desert planet in the farthest reaches of space, mice await your command! Direct their mobile fortress, and seek the legendary city of gold!

Why similar: Strategy 38.2%, Simulation 32.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Retro 6.7%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling colony management game with a retro aesthetic that captures the same management feel as the seed game.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Building 35%, Strategy 31.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Indie 8.8%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling colony management game shares the base-building and resource-gathering loops found in Ant War.

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Management 32.9%, Base Building 20%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 15.9%, Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony-sim automation and resource management in a sandbox environment.

Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

Why similar: Management 22.4%, Strategy 20.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 15.7%, Building 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and resource management with swarm-based combat against various threats.

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: Management 28.7%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 18.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features management and base-building with a humorous tone that aligns with the casual strategy feel of the seed game.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 17.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 15%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that focuses on survival and expansion, mirroring the resource-gathering intensity of the seed game.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Strategy 27.2%, Management 24.1%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation that emphasizes production and base efficiency.

Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.

Why similar: Strategy 30.9%, Management 26.9%, Base Building 24.1%, Building 12.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that incorporates base-building and auto-battler mechanics for a similar tactical feel.

What is this? A game for ants?!? Hatch a quintillion bugs. Conquer the UNIVERSE!

Why similar: Simulation 48.9%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 20.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the rapid growth and expansion aspect of the seed game through an idle-simulation lens.

Grow, feed and care for your colony of mighty ants in a realistic semi-idle simulation of ant keeping. Created in collaboration with ant keeping enthusiasts, Ant Keeping Simulator will be an accurate experience to ant keepers.

Why similar: Simulation 39%, Management 32.7%, Casual 14.6%, Building 12.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, management-focused insect simulation that captures the theme of the seed game.

War is upon us and only the mightiest kingdom will rule the realm. Build the ultimate kingdom, wage total war on your enemies, and conquer the realm!

Why similar: Strategy 35%, Simulation 32.6%, Casual 19.9%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual strategy and simulation game that shares the retro aesthetic and management focus.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Management 25.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 16.8%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep simulation and base-building mechanics.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Management 32.5%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 20.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony survival and base-building game that emphasizes managing individual units in a hostile environment.

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 22.3%, Management 20.2%, Base Building 17%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex resource management and large-scale base expansion.

Reunite the kingdom of Adventuria and defeat the evil Illusionist Miraj by recruiting Adventurers to send on Adventures for epic loot and rewards in this RPG/Management Sim with tons of depth, randomization, and customization options!

Why similar: Management 36.9%, Simulation 19.2%, Casual 18.4%, Indie 16.8%, Retro 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and party-building mechanics in a casual, indie-style package.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Management 22.5%, Building 14%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Deep resource management and colony survival mechanics that provide a more complex take on the base-building genre.

Become a Gazillionaire by starting a tiny trading company and building a business empire!

Why similar: Strategy 36%, Simulation 32.1%, Casual 18.8%, Indie 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A casual management and economy simulation that shares the strategy-first approach of the seed game.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Simulation 36.2%, Building 24.8%, Casual 18.6%, Indie 13.9%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony management game that emphasizes the daily workload of your population.

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: Management 33.5%, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 20.4%, Building 10.4%, Casual 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused strategy game with a retro pixel-graphics style.

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Management 21.2%, Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 11.3%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Base Building 24.3%, Building 21%, Indie 13%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base-building against hostile nature, mirroring the combat elements of the seed game.

Supreme allows you to pursue your wildest dream ever, the dream that you’ve wanted to fulfill all your life. Your dream of owning and operating your own Pizzeria franchise that you will dominate the world with...err… we mean make everyone full and happy with? Yeah that.

Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Management 24.3%, Casual 19.5%, Indie 14.3%, Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A casual management and strategy game that focuses on building an empire from the ground up.

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Strategy 28%, Management 28%, Base Building 22.1%, Simulation 21.9%

The only game of its kind where you can feel like a real internet celebrity! Record videos, interact with your subscribers, buy better equipment and gain fame!

Why similar: Simulation 25.3%, Strategy 25.3%, Management 24.6%, Casual 13.5%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual management simulation that emphasizes growth and strategic decision-making.

🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!

Why similar: Strategy 35.9%, Base Building 26.3%, Casual 17.9%, Building 9.1%, Management 6.2%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Strategy 23.7%, Simulation 23.6%, Base Building 22.1%, Building 17%, Indie 9.1%

Experience a game where you live through the cycle of an ant colony. You can dig your own tunnels, organize your colony, customize your army, but you need to survive every wave of attack!

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Simulation 40.6%, Indie 15.8%

Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!

Why similar: Simulation 34.5%, Casual 20.7%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 12%, Building 6.6%

Enter the exciting world of Arcade ownership! Play through the 1980's arcade revolution by buying arcade machines for your customers to play! Customize your arcade to increase its popularity! Manage your finances, capitalize on newly released games, but beware the pitfalls that could bankrupt you!

Why similar: Simulation 27.3%, Strategy 26.9%, Management 19.6%, Casual 15.3%, Indie 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual management simulation that captures the retro, indie feel of the seed game.

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Strategy 44.1%, Management 17.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Indie 5.7%

Desktop Tourney World is a simulation construction, immortal cultivation survival game, you need to collect food, construct buildings, build equipment, and fight with all kinds of monsters.

Why similar: Simulation 42.9%, Strategy 42.8%, Casual 7.1%, Singleplayer 5.1%, Adventure 2%

Seize power and build an empire of fuzzy cellular automata monsters! Herd hundreds of mindless subjects to smash your rivals' castles and steal their territory in this RTS inspired by Conway's Game of Life.

Why similar: Management 43.5%, Base Building 29.8%, Simulation 26.7%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 34.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Strategy 16.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.2%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Management 29%, Strategy 26.3%, Simulation 24%, Building 16.5%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Strategy 36.3%, Simulation 32.9%, Casual 17.4%, Indie 13.5%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Management 27.4%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 19%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 13%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Simulation 48.4%, Casual 27.9%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 5.9%, Indie 2.2%

An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.

Why similar: Management 26.3%, Strategy 26%, Simulation 25.3%, Casual 11.6%, Indie 9.1%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Management 25.6%, Strategy 18.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 15.1%, Simulation 14.7%

Series Makers makes your dreams come true. Produce your own TV series and build your own TV studio with your team. Dominate the TV landscape and fight your way up for worldwide success!

Why similar: Management 31.7%, Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 22.8%, Casual 11.8%, Indie 8.8%

Many years ago, when the Earth was ruled by chaos and anarchy, when a tribe crushed another tribe for wealth and to please the gods. In the cradle of the Apennine Peninsula a kingdom has been born, which will become the greatest empire and conquer all of the ancient world.

Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Simulation 32.1%, Casual 20.6%, Indie 12.9%

Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...

Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Simulation 39.9%, Indie 17.3%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: Strategy 23.5%, Management 23.1%, Simulation 20.6%, Building 12.3%, Casual 10%

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Why similar: Management 19.6%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 17.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.4%

Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Why similar: Strategy 25%, Simulation 23.7%, Management 20.2%, Building 12.6%, Casual 11.9%

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Management 34.2%, Strategy 27.4%, Base Building 21.2%, Building 17.2%

Take over a small dungeon that no adventure is interested in as a new manager. You'll start with almost nothing and recruit minions, accumulate money, construct facilities, develop technology, explore the realm, have the dungeon's name up, defeat other dungeons and win the championship of the Dungeon League.

Why similar: Strategy 44.7%, Simulation 39.1%, Indie 16.2%

Do you want to become part of great battles? Lead the alien army in tactical-voxel simulator game Make War.

Why similar: Strategy 39.3%, Simulation 35.5%, Indie 14.7%, Casual 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.3%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 17.4%, Building 15.3%, Simulation 14.6%

AntVentor is a point & click adventure game. You find yourself in a photorealistic macroworld where you immediately manage to ruin the life of the main character, ant, and foil all his plans for making his dream come true. Can you help get everything back in order?

Why similar: Indie 69.2%, Adventure 30.8%

War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?

Why similar: Management 28.7%, Strategy 27.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Classic 18.8% ★, Singleplayer 3.3%

Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.

Why similar: Management 31.4%, Strategy 22.7%, Simulation 22.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Indie 7.6%