Games Like The Hive

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 48.5%, Resource Management 34.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest experience to The Hive, focusing on managing an ant colony with RTS mechanics and underground expansion.

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 36.2%, Base Building 33.5%, Resource Management 17.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: You command a swarm of insects in this RTS that emphasizes evolution and large-scale tactical combat.

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

Why similar: RTS 29.4%, Action RTS 22.4% ★, Aliens 22%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the specific feel of being a hive queen, managing resources and units in a fast-paced RTS environment.

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 27.9%, Underground 26.4% ★, RTS 22.6%, Loot 10.8%, Fantasy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper excels at underground base-building and managing a villainous faction.

Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.

Why similar: Underground 37.5% ★, Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Fantasy 8.7%, Top-Down 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep underground management sim that allows you to build complex bases and command various creatures.

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: Real Time Tactics 43.7%, RTS 20.5%, Strategy 19.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that defines the underground base-building genre with a focus on managing minions and expanding your dark domain.

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: Real Time Tactics 28.6%, RTS 28.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 16%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the evolution and management of insect colonies, aligning closely with the biological progression in The Hive.

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: RTS 47%, Aliens 18.2%, Strategy 18.1%, Top-Down 13.3%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on tactical swarm combat against alien hives, mirroring the intensity of The Hive's battles.

Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.

Why similar: RTS 50.9%, Aliens 19%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 12%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: This RTS features a unique alien faction that functions like a living, growing entity, similar to the insectoid swarm.

A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Why similar: RTS 48.1%, Aliens 33.3%, Strategy 17%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique alien faction that evolves and builds structures, perfectly capturing the hivemind gameplay loop.

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 44.5%, RTS 37.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines base-building and survival against massive swarms, requiring careful resource management and defensive strategy.

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.

Why similar: RTS 28.8%, Action RTS 28.5% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Lore-Rich 12%, Dark Fantasy 8%

Why You'll Like It: This dark fantasy colony sim shares the atmospheric tension and survival focus found in The Hive.

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: RTS 30.6%, Real Time Tactics 25.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, PvE 11.9%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that puts you in control of an ant colony, emphasizing resource gathering and territorial expansion.

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: Real Time Tactics 51.8%, RTS 32.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 2.9%, Story Rich 2%

Why You'll Like It: You control a massive swarm of drones in real-time, focusing on tactical positioning and swarm-based combat.

“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 24.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, Aliens 13.4%, Resource Management 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This RTS survival game tasks you with building a colony and defending it against waves of alien threats.

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.1%, Base Building 22.8%, Resource Management 17.8%, Top-Down 8.8%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-strategy game that emphasizes difficult choices and managing a community in a dark, unforgiving world.

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Underground 50.3% ★, Base Building 33.2%, Strategy 7.9%, 3D 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric management game set in an underground sci-fi facility that requires careful resource and colonist oversight.

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 57.6%, Resource Management 33.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%, Indie 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This complex underground base-builder requires meticulous resource management and environmental control to survive.

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival for a second time. Assemble your strike team and manage your convoy. It's up to you to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: RTS 39.1%, Aliens 27.2%, Top-Down 10.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric strategy game that focuses on survival and tactical decisions in a hostile world.

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: Dinosaurs 29.5% ★, RTS 24.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric RTS that focuses on base-building and resource management with a unique tribal theme.

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 37.5%, Base Building 27.9%, Aliens 17.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Top-Down 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This tower defense RTS hybrid focuses on rapid expansion and biological growth, similar to hivemind mechanics.

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: Base Building 70.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Story Rich 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%, Indie 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: The Biotech expansion adds deep genetic and insectoid mechanics that mirror the evolution systems in The Hive.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 54.3%, Resource Management 36%, Strategy 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more industrial, it features intense resource management and base defense against alien swarms on a hostile planet.

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: Real Time Tactics 37.5%, Base Building 36.7%, PvE 14.8%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on base-building and survival, capturing the management aspect of The Hive.

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: Base Building 45%, Resource Management 36.5%, Strategy 8.9%, 3D 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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

Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.

Why similar: Resource Management 68.8%, Strategy 26.3%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This underground sci-fi game focuses on survival and management in a hostile, isolated environment.

A byte-sized Dungeon Keeping roguelike: dig out your lair, populate it with monsters and protect the Wratch from heroes come for easy prestige.

Why similar: Underground 45.1% ★, Base Building 29.1%, Fantasy 11.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Top-Down 6%

Why You'll Like It: This underground strategy game focuses on base-building and managing a colony in a dark, fantasy setting.

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: Action RTS 25.4% ★, RTS 24.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 5.9%

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 76%, Strategy 18.9%, Story Rich 2.2%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined RTS that features swarm-like unit control and a unique, dark animal-themed aesthetic.

Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 30.5% ★, RTS 20.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Action RTS 8.4% ★

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

Hive Blight is a roguelite autobattler where you lead a team of insect warriors against a corrupting Fungal Threat. Build powerful synergies, uncover the source of the plague, and destroy it to save your world!

Why similar: PvE 41.3%, Fantasy 29.8%, Strategy 25.7%, Singleplayer 3.2%

"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: Action RTS 33.2% ★, RTS 32.3%, PvE 11.6%, Top-Down 8.2%, Fantasy 7%

Perimeter is a real-time strategy game with a destructible world. Utilize the environment for resource gathering and defense against enemies. Immerse yourself in the millennia-spanning history of the Chains of Worlds and lead a faction in the struggle for survival.

Why similar: Action RTS 28.6% ★, RTS 26.5%, Lore-Rich 9.2%, Top-Down 7.4%, Base Building 6.7%

Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.

Why similar: Aliens 70.1%, Top-Down 28.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the claustrophobic, underground atmosphere of fighting insectoid aliens in a sci-fi setting.

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 42.4%, Resource Management 27.8%, Top-Down 13.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Indie 1.5%

Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army. Grow new organs, split, merge and mutate them into unique units that adapt to your needs as you fight against human and alien threats in single and multiplayer modes.

Why similar: RTS 20.9%, Action RTS 18.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Aliens 14.8%, Resource Management 10.7%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Base Building 37.1%, Resource Management 25.6%, RTS 24.4%, Strategy 8.3%, 3D 2.9%

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: RTS 23.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Aliens 17.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Fantasy 8.1%

A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

Why similar: Action RTS 20.7% ★, RTS 19.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Resource Management 11.1%

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.

Why similar: RTS 27.5%, Base Building 20.9%, Real Time Tactics 19.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.5%, Base Building 24.6%, Lore-Rich 14%, Strategy 7.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%

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 34.8%, Real Time Tactics 26.1%, Resource Management 20.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Top-Down 8.2%

We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves

Why similar: RTS 38.2%, Real Time Tactics 29.4%, Fantasy 13%, Top-Down 10%, 3D 5.1%

A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging universe of The Banished Vault.

Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Resource Management 27.9%, Aliens 23.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%

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: Action RTS 29.5% ★, RTS 27.9%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 15.4%, Strategy 5.5%

Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

Why similar: Action RTS 27.6% ★, RTS 22.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, PvE 7.9%

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: RTS 28.1%, Underground 24.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 6.5%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Action RTS 18.9% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Resource Management 11.4%

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

Why similar: Underground 74.8% ★, Fantasy 20.9%, Strategy 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%, Indie 0.6%

Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!

Why similar: RTS 35.7%, Base Building 25.7%, Resource Management 21.5%, Strategy 8.6%, 3D 4.9%

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Base Building 47.5%, Resource Management 23.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: RTS 54%, Strategy 15.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Aliens 9.8%, Real Time Tactics 4.3%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Base Building 46.4%, Resource Management 31.7%, Fantasy 10.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: RTS 27.2%, Base Building 20.7%, Real Time Tactics 20.6%, Resource Management 15%, Fantasy 8.6%

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: RTS 33.9%, Base Building 33.3%, Resource Management 23.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.

Why similar: Underground 29.6% ★, RTS 20.8%, Real Time Tactics 17%, Base Building 15.7%, Fantasy 9.4%

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: Resource Management 41.9%, Strategy 32%, Fantasy 19%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

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 45.8%, Base Building 37.9%, Strategy 9.9%, 3D 6.4%

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 85.2%, Indie 14.8%