Games Like Deep Among the Swarm

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: Real-Time with Pause 21.6% ★, RTS 13.6%, Tower Defense 12%, Base Building 10.7%, Action RTS 9% ★

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: Real-Time with Pause 22.5% ★, RTS 14.9%, Tower Defense 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Action RTS 9.7% ★

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 24%, RTS 20.1%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Survival 10.6%, Real-Time with Pause 9.5% ★

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.2%, RTS 17.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Base Building 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%

Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.

Why similar: RTS 20.3%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Roguelite 9.8%

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: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 20.7%, Roguelite 16.7%, Roguelike 11.2%, Strategy 9%

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Tower Defense 17.2%, RTS 16%, Base Building 13.8%, Action RTS 11.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%

Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Action RTS 10% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: RTS 18.4%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Action RTS 10.2% ★, Roguelite 9.1%

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Roguelite 12.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 11.8%

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: RTS 21.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Tower Defense 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 9.5%

Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 15.9%, RTS 13.1%, Roguelite 12.5%, Roguelike 8.4%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, RTS 20.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 13.6%, Building 7.9%

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: RTS 24%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11.9%

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: Tower Defense 43.2%, Real-Time with Pause 20% ★, RTS 14.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Base Building 5.7%

“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: RTS 16.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Tower Defense 14%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Survival 11.4%, Roguelike 10%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: RTS 20.5%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Action RTS 14.6% ★, Survival 9.3%

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: Real-Time with Pause 20.8% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 13%, RTS 13%, Tower Defense 11.5%

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 25.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Underground 18.3% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Action RTS 13.2% ★

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Why similar: RTS 31.6%, Tower Defense 29.6%, Base Building 23.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Top-Down 4.5%

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.9%, RTS 32.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Real-Time with Pause 8.9% ★, Top-Down 7.5%

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 35.2% ★, Roguelite 14.4%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Roguelike 8.6%

A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!

Why similar: RTS 20%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.7%, Survival 10.3%

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Underground 16.6% ★, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Procedural Generation 12%

Take on the ultimate tower defense challenge in Digs, a roguelike game where you shape the battlefield, mine resources, and strategize against a variety of enemies. Manage your actions, customize your arsenal with upgrade cards, and explore diverse levels. Can you dig in and emerge victorious?

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Roguelite 15.7%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Building 10.5%, Roguelike 9.9%

Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47%, Building 18%, Strategy 12.6%, Difficult 12.6%, Top-Down 6.5%

Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, RTS 26.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 6.7%

Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

Why similar: Roguelite 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Procedural Generation 21.8%, Roguelike 17.4%, Strategy 10.1%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, Post-apocalyptic 24.6%, Procedural Generation 16%, Roguelike 15.9%, Resource Management 15.6%

ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!

Why similar: RTS 30.8%, Tower Defense 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Roguelike 11.2%, Building 9.7%

Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Roguelite 10.5%

Creeping Dusk is a tower defense game. Build a town around an abandoned gold mine and defend against monsters that swarm the area. Fortify your defenses, and prepare for the increasingly challenging nights. Will you be able to protect your town from the encroaching darkness?

Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, Base Building 21.4%, Roguelite 14.9%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 11.7%

This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Time Management 17.4%, Roguelite 14.8%, Building 12%, Survival 11.9%

Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?

Why similar: RTS 26.6%, Tower Defense 19.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Action RTS 12.1% ★, Roguelike 8.1%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.7% ★, Base Building 20%, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Resource Management 7.7%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Survival 19.1%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 10.2%

Fend off brutal waves of demonic hordes in this epic fantasy tower defense survivors like! Hack and slash among the action or zoom to strategically control the battlefield. You are the city’s last line of defense, build your base, defend the gate!

Why similar: RTS 19.6%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Roguelite 10.8%, Roguelike 7.3%

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: Base Building 28.2%, Resource Management 18.8%, Survival 17.3%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 9.3%

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: RTS 27.8%, Base Building 25.7%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 9.4%

Everwarder is a refreshing take on the tower defense genre, blending roguelite mechanics with a time-based survival concept. Fight against the encroaching darkness and fend off emerging enemies. Collect artifacts, buy upgrades, discover ancient structures, unlock new units and more!

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.5%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Survival 13.2%, Roguelite 12.6%, Building 10.7%

Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements

Why similar: Roguelite 35.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Procedural Generation 19.6%, Strategy 17.6%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 26.6% ★, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

A fast-paced roguelike tower defense where you choose your Queen Bee with unique skills and the Artisan to build turrets and cast powerful spells to defend your hive through regions infested with zombees. Face bosses with insane mechanics and survive the Zumbeecalypse!

Why similar: RTS 31.5%, Tower Defense 28.9%, Roguelite 15.9%, Roguelike 12.2%, Strategy 7.8%

Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 37.2% ★, Strategy 21.4%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Indie 5.2%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 11.8%, Roguelite 11.5%

Drone Swarm is a very unique take on tactical games. Control 32,000 drones in quick, fast-paced fights. Combine your swarm abilities and counter constantly evolving attacks of your opponents. Survive varying enemy waves, get upgrades to your swarm, and make it to the next system alive!

Why similar: RTS 65.9%, Strategy 16.4%, Indie 6.8%, Singleplayer 6.2%, Top-Down 4.7%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Base Building 35.5%, Survival 24%, Building 18.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10%

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: RTS 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Resource Management 16.3%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 8%

Step into the arena with IDUN: Prologue, a thrilling slice of our full-length defense RTS where real-time strategy meets rogue-lite chaos. Fight your way through unique mission objectives with overwhelming swarms of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.2%, RTS 24.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 7.6%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 16.5%, RTS 15.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 12.9%

City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.

Why similar: Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Time Management 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Base Building 30.4%, Survival 20.3%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.1%

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Roguelite 20.8%, Survival 20.4%, Procedural Generation 18.4%, Roguelike 14.5%, Difficult 10%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: RTS 24.2%, Base Building 20%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Building 12.2%

Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.

Why similar: Base Building 23%, Survival 15.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Building 10.1%

A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 23.5%, Roguelite 16.7%, Roguelike 12.2%, Difficult 8.6%

The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?

Why similar: Roguelite 27.1%, Roguelike 22%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Strategy 12.8%