Games like Empire of the Ants
If Empire of the Ants is your kind of game, the closest matches are Taking London, Lines of Battle and Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its biological accuracy feels authentic, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Empire of the Ants: 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.
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Taking London
WHY THIS
Shares real time strategy, resource management and atmospheric with Empire of the Ants.
Top pick for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
A love letter to old-school browser-based RTS MMOs – with charming nostalgic pixel graphics, a dash of political satire, and tonnes of strategic tension. Build your empire, face off against other players, and take what’s yours in true British imperial style: by dominating the map.
Lines of Battle
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Command armies in tactical battles with simultaneous turns during the Napoleonic Wars. Lead forces through single-player strategy campaigns, master formations and flanking tactics, then test your skills in competitive 1v1 and 4v4 battles.
Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.
ZeroSpace
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Ranked #4 for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
ZeroSpace is a sci-fi hybrid RTS game with a story-rich, party-based RPG campaign. As commander of the Protectorate forces, you must upgrade your mothership, build strong relationships with your crew and recruit a formidable army. Navigate the hard choices that will shape humanity's future.
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Empire of the Ants.
Ranked #5 for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
Carrier Command 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Empire of the Ants.
Ranked #6 for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
Dummynation
WHY THIS
Shares real time strategy and an immersive mood with Empire of the Ants.
Ranked #7 for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Empire of the Ants.
Ranked #8 for Empire of the Ants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
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?
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Mount & Blade
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empire of the Ants.
Reviewers of Empire of the Ants cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
Stellaris
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Shares an immersive mood with Empire of the Ants.
Reviewers of Empire of the Ants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Empires of the Undergrowth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Empire of the Ants.
Reviewers of Empire of the Ants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
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.
Simantik
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Reviewers of Empire of the Ants cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Survival first-person shooter in an anti-utopian world with steampunk elements. Explore the map, enter every house, complete quests, communicate with other characters, and a large arsenal of unusual weapons and abilities that you will receive during the passage will help you survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empire of the Ants at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~65% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Balatro
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Priced ~70% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~81% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~84% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
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 ~80% under Empire of the Ants on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
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...
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire of the Ants.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about Empire of the Ants
- Does Empire of the Ants work on Steam Deck?
- Empire of the Ants is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Empire of the Ants cost?
- Empire of the Ants is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Empire of the Ants have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Empire of the Ants supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Empire of the Ants?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empire of the Ants are Taking London, Lines of Battle, Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival.
- Who developed Empire of the Ants?
- Empire of the Ants was developed by Tower Five and published by Microids.
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