Games like Ant Colony: Wild Forest
If Ant Colony: Wild Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cloudlings, Powerplay and IDLE BOSS RUSH — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Ant Colony: Wild Forest: You play as an ant queen, growing an ant colony. Ants cannot be controlled directly. But you can spawn needed types of ants; upgrade them; make raids and most importantly - dig and build a dungeon! The goal of each location is to destroy all enemy bases. If the queen dies - the game ends.
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Cloudlings
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Top pick for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Powerplay
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Second-strongest match for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
IDLE BOSS RUSH
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Third-strongest match for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #4 for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #5 for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Here Comes The Swarm
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Ranked #6 for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
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?
Flooded
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Ranked #7 for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
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.
Whiskerwood
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Ranked #8 for Ant Colony: Wild Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
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.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Ant Colony: Wild Forest
- What games are most similar to Ant Colony: Wild Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ant Colony: Wild Forest are Cloudlings, Powerplay, IDLE BOSS RUSH.
- Who developed Ant Colony: Wild Forest?
- Ant Colony: Wild Forest was developed by Pixel Cells and published by Polden Publishing.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Ant Colony: Wild Forest.
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