Games like Bacteria Wars
If Bacteria Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nuts Protocol, Extinction Eclipse and Prime Domination — 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 Bacteria Wars: A real-time strategy game in which you fight to secure the victory of your Bacteria over the Cell Defense Force and other enemy Bacteria in a world where your units are your only resource, and where your mobile base will not be enough to keep you alive.
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Steam players who put hours into Bacteria Wars 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.
Nuts Protocol
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Top pick for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
You might think this is yet another Tower Defense game. Well, friend, you are not wrong! The twist? It's fast-paced! Your greatest resource is positioning - and moving around is a must. Also, you control an orange Squirrel equipped with more-than-military-grade turrets! OMG - can it get any better?
Extinction Eclipse
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Second-strongest match for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
You are in command of the human fleet, searching for asteroids to mine, extract resources and build bases and more ships to defeat aliens invaders. This simple and short action RTS has a full and exciting campaign, and a skirmish mode that allows you to play a different mission on every match.
Prime Domination
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Third-strongest match for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
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Ranked #4 for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
Urban War Defense
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Ranked #5 for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Lead through an action-packed fast-paced tower defense game with a story of an invasion on your homeland by a large foreign force and as a newly appointed commander do what you can to help your country fight back and defend against this enemy force which is approaching from the coast.
Home Wars
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Ranked #6 for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.
Crossfire: Legion
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Ranked #7 for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
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Ranked #8 for Bacteria Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bacteria Wars at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bacteria Wars.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bacteria Wars.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bacteria Wars.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bacteria Wars.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Bacteria Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bacteria Wars.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bacteria Wars.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Bacteria Wars
- How much does Bacteria Wars cost?
- Bacteria Wars is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bacteria Wars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bacteria Wars are Nuts Protocol, Extinction Eclipse, Prime Domination.
- Who developed Bacteria Wars?
- Bacteria Wars was developed by Patrick McGuinness.
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 Bacteria Wars.
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