Games like Infested Planet
If Infested Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Fall of Aether Station, The Red Solstice and Deterrence — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and retro. 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 →Infested Planet is a top-down tactical strategy game that blends tower defense with real-time strategy elements, developed by Rocket Bear Games and released in 2014 at $14.99. The core experience centers on base defense, marine upgrades, and a mutation system that keeps enemy behavior unpredictable. Players can pause and plan, collect resources from crates scattered across procedurally generated levels, and customize marine loadouts to suit different tactical approaches. Reviewers note the marine upgrades make combat satisfying, while players describe the resource management as forcing tough strategic choices and the procedural levels as offering high replayability. The challenging difficulty and tactical depth have earned the title a 95 percent positive rating from over 1,800 Steam reviews. The game is playable on Steam Deck and offers a medium-length experience best suited for focused sit-down sessions.
About Infested Planet: 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.
Players who liked Infested Planet also play
Steam players who put hours into Infested 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.
The Fall of Aether Station
WHY THIS
Top pick for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Infested Planet.
Customize your Ships, Upgrade your fleet, and Command your way to victory in this ruthless rogue-lite tower defense/real time strategy hybrid. Take on an enemy that learns from your moves and adjusts its own path. Do you have what it takes to persevere?
The Red Solstice
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Infested Planet.
Second-strongest match for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infested Planet.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
Deterrence
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Infested Planet.
Artificial intelligence has plotted a path to a sustainable future, but humans aren't included. Defend humanity against the A.I. in this instant action real-time strategy, tower defense hybrid.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Infested Planet.
Ranked #4 for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Infested Planet.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Infested Planet.
Ranked #5 for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Infested 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!
Door Kickers
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Infested Planet.
Ranked #6 for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Infested Planet.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
Revenge of the Titans
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Infested Planet.
Ranked #7 for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Infested Planet.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Infested Planet.
Ranked #8 for Infested Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Infested Planet.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Infested Planet
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Infested Planet.
Reviewers of Infested Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Infested Planet.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Dungeon Siege
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Infested Planet.
Reviewers of Infested Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dungeon Siege® combines the immersive elements of a role-playing game with over-the-top intensity and non-stop action. Dungeon Siege plunges you into a continuous 3D fantasy world where you face off against an army of evil that has been unleashed.
Torchlight II
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a retro mood with Infested Planet.
Reviewers of Infested Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Infested Planet.
Reviewers of Infested Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
Put on your wide-brimmed hat, grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothic-noir world of Borgovia, where mad science threatens the fragile peace between monster and mortal.
Victor Vran ARPG
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Infested Planet.
Reviewers of Infested Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
Diablo® IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Infested Planet.
Reviewers of Infested Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Infested Planet.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Infested Planet at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Infested Planet.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Infested Planet.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Infested Planet.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infested Planet.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Infested Planet.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Infested Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Infested Planet.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
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. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
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 Infested Planet.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Infested Planet.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
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Frequently asked about Infested Planet
- Does Infested Planet run on Steam Deck?
- Infested Planet is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Infested Planet cost?
- Infested Planet is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Infested Planet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Infested Planet are The Fall of Aether Station, The Red Solstice, Deterrence.
- Who developed Infested Planet?
- Infested Planet was developed by Rocket Bear Games.
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