Single-player games like The Hive
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Hive, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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War for the Overworld
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Hive.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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No King No Kingdom
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
No King No Kingdom – First-Person Strategy Game. Ride Dragons! Command peasants! Build towns! Raise Armies! Tame Epic Creatures! Take your own sword and fight side by side with your troops against powerful giant bosses.
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Beneath the Mountain
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Red Solstice
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Hive.
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.
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Empires of the Undergrowth
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Hive.
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.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hive.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to The Hive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Hive.
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?