Games like Here Comes The Swarm
If Here Comes The Swarm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Calyx, CastleOn Scriptum and Corsair Cove — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and punishing. 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 Here Comes The Swarm: Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
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Steam players who put hours into Here Comes The Swarm 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.
Calyx
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, difficulty scaling, survival and a stressful mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Top pick for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Here Comes The Swarm.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
CastleOn Scriptum
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
Build a castle and defend it from your enemies! Construct towers, place traps, train and command units in this historical, manuscript-themed mix of Tower Defense and classical Real Time Strategy.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Afterglow Fortress
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
A cute hand-drawn 2D medieval RTS game. Gather resources, build your base, develop by day, and defend against monster hordes at night to protect your realm.
Stranding Echoes
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Stone to Stars
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Ranked #8 for Here Comes The Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Here Comes The Swarm.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Here Comes The Swarm
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They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Reviewers of Here Comes The Swarm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Here Comes The Swarm.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Reviewers of Here Comes The Swarm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
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!
Diplomacy is Not an Option
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and a stressful mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Reviewers of Here Comes The Swarm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
From Glory To Goo
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival, roguelite and an intense mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Reviewers of Here Comes The Swarm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Ashes of Darkness
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Here Comes The Swarm cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Ashes of Darkness is a 2D Soulslike Action RPG set in a dark medieval world. Master fast-paced combat, defeat powerful enemies, collect rare artifacts, and forge your own build as you grow stronger and challenge deadly bosses.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Here Comes The Swarm at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
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 ~69% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
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 ~56% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Here Comes The Swarm.
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 ~50% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Here Comes The Swarm.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Here Comes The Swarm.
Priced ~61% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
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 ~50% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Here Comes The Swarm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Liquidators
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Here Comes The Swarm.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Comes The Swarm.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Frequently asked about Here Comes The Swarm
- Does Here Comes The Swarm run on Steam Deck?
- Here Comes The Swarm 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 Here Comes The Swarm cost?
- Here Comes The Swarm is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Here Comes The Swarm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Here Comes The Swarm are Calyx, CastleOn Scriptum, Corsair Cove.
- Who developed Here Comes The Swarm?
- Here Comes The Swarm was developed by CableHook Games.
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