Games like Swarming Planet
If Swarming Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Micron Defense Force, Starfall Defenders and Raging Titan — 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 Swarming Planet: Build towers and learn abilities to defend against swarms of hundreds of on-screen hostile alien creatures. Choose between sets of randomized upgrades that both upgrade you and the alien swarm. From enormous explosions to far-reaching flamethrowers, no two games are the same.
Players who liked Swarming Planet also play
Steam players who put hours into Swarming Planet also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Micron Defense Force
WHY THIS
Top pick for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
A Roguelike Tower Defense in space with missions to conquer. Can you hold against the spreading alien bosses? Build and upgrade towers against the corruption. Choose your technologies and warpspeed your way to victory.
Starfall Defenders
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defense game that features unique towers and enemies. It also has an in-game shop system that allows players to purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and buy special items like the Atom Bomb, Splash Bomb, and Air Supply.
Raging Titan
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!
Taur
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Aliens: Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
Mars or Die!
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Ranked #7 for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Stellar Initiative
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Swarming Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Swarming Planet at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~63% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~88% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Hexcells Plus
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Priced ~63% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Lords of the Realm II
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Priced ~63% under Swarming Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from RedZyrro
Other recommendable Steam games by RedZyrro, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Gravity Mastery
WHY THIS
Another title from RedZyrro, the studio behind Swarming Planet.
A perspective-disorienting puzzler where the definition of down is yours to decide. Change the flow of gravity to complete each of The Adviser's varied, but logical tests. Can you become proficient enough to control the six directions and master gravity?
Cat Fish Island
WHY THIS
Another title from RedZyrro, the studio behind Swarming Planet.
A relaxing adventure of island fishing. Collect wood and fish to build and bait the most amazing fishing rod the world has ever seen. Start your adventure to catch the mythical fish of legend thought to be only an old tale by the island's inhabitants.
Escape Covid Camp
WHY THIS
Another title from RedZyrro, the studio behind Swarming Planet. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Sent to camp against your will, find a way to escape to freedom. Craft goods to trade with other inhabitants for objects to use in your planned escape. Can you strategize and execute an escape plan through the perimeter of patrolling guards?
Rogue Warlords
WHY THIS
Another title from RedZyrro, the studio behind Swarming Planet. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Combine RTS combat with roguelike elements to create highly replayable and strategic action. Summon troops and purchase stacking upgrades to create a massive army of incredibly powerful troops. How massive of an army can you create?
1000 Man General
WHY THIS
Another title from RedZyrro, the studio behind Swarming Planet. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Command an army of 1000 troops. Create squads from a variety of unit types and give them orders to perform devastating strategic maneuvers. Then lead your army into battle and slice the opposing army into pieces.
Lucky Dungeon
WHY THIS
Another title from RedZyrro, the studio behind Swarming Planet. Shares Strategy with Swarming Planet.
Delve through a series of dungeons full of terrors. Fight battles by stopping a board full of your equipment and skills. Press your luck to gain battle resources, but be careful. One bad roll and you can lose everything. This game doesn't contain any real-world currency gambling/microtransactions.
Frequently asked about Swarming Planet
- How much does Swarming Planet cost?
- Swarming Planet is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Swarming Planet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Swarming Planet are Micron Defense Force, Starfall Defenders, Raging Titan.
- Who developed Swarming Planet?
- Swarming Planet was developed by RedZyrro.
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