Games like The Hive
If The Hive is your kind of game, the closest matches are 最后的巫后：众王纷争的年代 Witch Queen, Dragon Banner and Rebirth evolution — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its equipment system for units, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 The Hive: The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?
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Steam players who put hours into The 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.
最后的巫后：众王纷争的年代 Witch Queen
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
Individual independent development Witch Queen is a lightweight storyline oriented rts game that is based the dark ages of the fantasy world of Isefaia. In here, Build countries, explore the continent, witness the endings of the Wizards, and learn the truth behind the story.
Dragon Banner
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
Dragon Banner is a new mix of strategy and base-building. It is built from the love of building blocks and real-time strategy games. Discover the fate of dragons and start the resistance against the Skull Queen and her army of skeleton warriors!
Rebirth evolution
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hive.
Third-strongest match for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
BANNERMEN
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hive.
Ranked #4 for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.
Crown of Greed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hive.
Ranked #5 for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
Master the art of indirect rule in this fantasy RTS inspired by the classic Majesty. Forget direct orders, use gold to bribe subjects and set bounties for heroes. Build your kingdom in Rodovia and master a unique system where the coin is king. Can you lead those who won't obey?
Air Defender
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hive.
Ranked #6 for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
Command the sky in a tense real-time strategy simulation where you manage a nation's air defenses. Analyze radar contacts, scramble interceptor jets, and make split-second decisions to protect your airspace from hostile threats.
Beneath the Mountain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hive.
Ranked #7 for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
Legends of Ellaria
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hive.
Ranked #8 for The Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hive at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hive.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hive.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Hive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hive.
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 ~63% under The Hive on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Hive.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hive.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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Frequently asked about The Hive
- How much does The Hive cost?
- The Hive is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Hive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hive are 最后的巫后：众王纷争的年代 Witch Queen, Dragon Banner, Rebirth evolution.
- Who developed The Hive?
- The Hive was developed by Skydome Entertainment.
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 The Hive.
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