Games like Hive
If Hive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Khet 2.0, Gem Rush and Simply Chess — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its portable and playable anywhere, 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 Hive: Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
Players who liked Hive also play
Steam players who put hours into Hive 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.
Khet 2.0
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Hive.
Top pick for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
Gem Rush
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
The well-loved board game comes to Steam. This mountain is rich in mystic gems. Combine gems to open up new rooms, providing new ways to dig up gems. Race against other players or race together against the clock to dig the greatest mine in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn strategy game.
Simply Chess
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hive.
Third-strongest match for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
Small World
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Hive.
Ranked #4 for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
CONTROL FANTASY RACES, SET OFF TO CONQUER NEW LANDS, OVERTHROW YOUR ENEMIES AND CLAIM THE VICTORY! In this digital adaptation of the legendary board game, dive into a world inhabited by whimsical fantasy races.
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hive.
Ranked #5 for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Ogre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hive.
Ranked #6 for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
Animated Puzzles
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Hive.
Ranked #7 for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
Animated Puzzles Star is a Jigsaw - style puzzle game with a fun and fascinating twist, animated pictures. A wonderful pastime, in which beautiful photos are combined with natural motions and effects, giving you a puzzle experience above the ordinary.
Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hive.
Ranked #8 for Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Hive.
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
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Tabletop Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Hive.
Reviewers of Hive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
GO
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Go is a simple and minimalist game in which you have to position the launch of a ball to eliminate all the existing obstacles. Very good to pass the time, it contains 100 stages.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hive at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
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 ~50% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hive.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hive.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hive.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hive.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hive.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hive.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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More from BlueLine Games
Other recommendable Steam games by BlueLine Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Khet 2.0
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Hive.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Hive. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
Othello
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hive.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Hive. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
The classic abstract strategy game comes to Steam! Othello is an ageless game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Place tiles surrounding your opponents tiles to flip them to your color. Get to the end with more tiles of your color and you are the winner!
Simply Chess
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hive.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Hive. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
Tatsu
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hive.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Hive. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Japanese legend tells of a great battle between two mighty Dragon Lord armies, locked in combat on the peaks of Mount Hotaka, competing to win the hand of the Princess Kushinada, the last and most beautiful of eight sisters.
Lost Cities
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hive.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Hive. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hive.
Officially licensed version of the award winning Lost Cities by Reiner Knizia. Plan your expeditions wisely to outpace your rival's pursuits! After 3 rounds of adventuring, the player that had the most successful expeditions is the winner!
Frequently asked about Hive
- Is Hive verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hive is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hive cost?
- Hive is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hive have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hive supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Hive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hive are Khet 2.0, Gem Rush, Simply Chess.
- Who developed Hive?
- Hive was developed by BlueLine Games.
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