Games Like Buggos

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: Grand Strategy 20% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.4%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: This is the premier ant-colony simulation that perfectly mirrors the hive-management and evolution mechanics found in Buggos.

From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 20.8%, RTS 20.4%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines base-building and swarm defense, requiring you to manage a growing population against relentless threats.

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

Why similar: RTS 34.3%, Auto Battler 19.9%, Wargame 17.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A direct RTS experience focused on managing a massive insectoid swarm to overwhelm enemy forces.

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 14%, Auto Battler 13.9%, RTS 13.8%, Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and auto-battler aspects of building a team, similar to the unit-optimization loop in Buggos.

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: RTS 20.1%, Base Building 19%, Management 17.2%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the evolutionary aspect of insect management, allowing you to breed and customize your own swarm.

Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!

Why similar: Auto Battler 52.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Strategy 16.6%, 2D 7.5%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical auto-battler where you manage a large group of units through procedural levels, emphasizing swarm composition.

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Strategy 31.2%, Simulation 27%, Pixel Graphics 22.7%, 2D 12.6%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An auto-battler that lets you assemble undead units from various parts, capturing the customization and chaotic combat of Buggos.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Villain Protagonist 16.3% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Management 13.7%, RTS 12%

Why You'll Like It: A classic dungeon-management game where you control minions and build a base to defend against invading heroes.

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: RTS 31.1%, Strategy 23.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Level Editor 6.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique flow-based combat system where you must build structures to hold back an encroaching, liquid-like swarm.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, RTS 19.2%, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same thrill of managing a base while defending against massive, overwhelming waves of enemies.

Lazy Galaxy 2 is an idle/clicker game with base-building and RTS elements. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe! Expand your base, fight vicious foes, and conquer the galaxies. Acquire combat experience and convert into candy, the most precious alien resource!

Why similar: RTS 20.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Auto Battler 17.9%, Management 10.9%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends auto-battler mechanics with RTS elements, focusing on fleet management and swarm-like combat.

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 28.6% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building simulation where you play as a villain, managing monsters and traps to defend your lair.

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

Why similar: RTS 55.1%, Strategy 23.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, 2D 3.6%, Casual 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined RTS designed for controllers that focuses on leading animal factions in fast-paced, swarm-based warfare.

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: City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Management 12.6%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation that focuses on automation and resource management to build a thriving, efficient society.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 28.9% ★, Base Building 22.8%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A villain-protagonist base-builder that emphasizes managing a large workforce and defending your lair.

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 11%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on the unique needs of a goblin tribe, emphasizing expansion and survival.

Emerge from the ant hill with a handful of ants and a dream... to conquer the world. Train your ants, manage their daily workload, and travel across the town in search of new land. Sharpen your pincers and be ready to fight everyone from beetles and slugs, to the town police and the army!

Why similar: Management 24.1%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 18.3%, Base Building 15%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game dedicated to managing an ant colony and expanding your territory through tactical combat.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 35.8% ★, Strategy 29.5%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive classic for managing a base of minions and directing them to conquer the world above.

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: Base Building 25.2%, Building 17.4%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Colony Sim 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building with tower defense and resource management to protect your colony from hostile forces.

Swarm the City: Zombie Evolved is a villain protagonist real-time strategy game. You will play as the King of the Dead and rule the world once again by creating zombie legions and destroying human cities. As the King of the Dead, you can infect humans, turn them into zombies and rule the world!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 31.8% ★, RTS 23.5%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A villain-protagonist RTS where you control a zombie horde to infect and overwhelm human cities.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Base Building 28%, Colony Sim 17.7%, RTS 17.1%, Resource Management 16.7%, Level Editor 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale RTS that focuses on building massive defenses to survive against thousands of incoming enemies.

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: City Builder 25.5%, Building 15.9%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and base-building, requiring you to program units to perform complex tasks for your colony.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale colony management where you can command thousands of units in complex tactical battles.

Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

Why similar: Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, RTS 13.8%, Building 12.3%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique automation game where you build factories to harvest and process mobs for resources and defense.

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 24.2%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 13%, Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: A clicker-based strategy game that allows you to manage the growth and evolution of a civilization over time.

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 15%, RTS 12.9%, Building 11%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and base-building aspects of running a sci-fi facility, similar to the management loop in Buggos.

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.

Why similar: Sci-fi 36.5%, 2D 26.1%, Singleplayer 21.8%, Casual 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: An auto-battler survivor game that focuses on intense unit customization and wave-based combat.

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 16.8%, RTS 15.9%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A complex base-building game that utilizes programming and automation to manage your units and resources.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 12%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling base-management game where you build and expand your kingdom while managing resources and units.

An RTS-Roguelike hybrid with auto-battling troops. Master building placement, swarm your enemies, and smash their defenses with unit-commander combos!

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, RTS 19.4%, Wargame 16.2%, Auto Battler 15.9%, Base Building 15.1%

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 11.7%, Strategy 11%, Auto Battler 10%

Lairchitect is a reverse dungeon crawler! Build your own lair and protect your precious soul core from heroes that try to raid your dungeon. Distracting heroes and using the right minions to defeat them is key in winning the game.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Auto Battler 20.2%, Building 15.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that lets you build and manage a lair, incorporating auto-battler elements for defense.

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: City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 18.3%, RTS 18.1%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Management 10.7%

Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.

Why similar: Wargame 38.7%, Strategy 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%, 2D 6.1%

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: City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 16%, RTS 12.2%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.5%

Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, RTS 17.1%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%

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: City Builder 18.9%, Wargame 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, RTS 12.5%, Building 9.7%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, RTS 17.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.8%

Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Building 13.9%, Management 12.2%, RTS 12%, Colony Sim 11.1%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: City Builder 20%, Base Building 16%, RTS 15.7%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.3%

Vanquish villains and lead the Kairobot Corps to glory in this spacefaring saga!

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 6.2%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Management 18.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 9%

The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, RTS 23.9%, Wargame 23.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5.7%

"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.

Why similar: RTS 36.1%, Wargame 35.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 8%, 2D 5.2%

Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Auto Battler 14.7%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Management 8.4%

This is a auto battler game with both casual and strategic attributes.Players will take on the role of the leader, expanding the team, learning talents and skills, strengthening equipment, transforming soldiers and other ways to combat power, breaking through random levels, ultimately to win game.

Why similar: Auto Battler 31.1%, Wargame 30.1%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

Why similar: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Building 5.1%

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: Wargame 27%, Base Building 26.1%, RTS 23.2%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 7.4%

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: Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.8%

The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

Why similar: RTS 38.2%, Base Building 31.4%, Resource Management 16.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 10.4%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 5.8%

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?

Why similar: RTS 27.2%, Base Building 25.7%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 9.4%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Wargame 10.3%, Building 9.7%

Create an army and use spells while it fights for you. Mage & Monsters is an active auto battler, where you must choose wisely between upgrading the might of your army, or increasing the power of your spells.

Why similar: Auto Battler 34.9%, Management 19.3%, Wargame 18.8%, Strategy 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 12.4%, Management 10.8%, Colony Sim 9.8%

Lazy Galaxy is a mix between RTS and idle/clicker game. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe!

Why similar: RTS 25.9%, Strategy 23.4%, City Builder 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, 2D 5%

Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.

Why similar: Wargame 27.7%, Auto Battler 26.1%, RTS 24.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 7.6%

Become a villain in this retro-inspired board game. Draft terrain tiles, recruit monsters, build your dungeon, and become the OVERBOSS!

Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Building 16.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 9.5%