Games like Swarmhold
If Swarmhold is your kind of game, the closest matches are KingFish, basecamp and GRAIN ROT — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Swarmhold: Swarmhold is a base defense roguelite where you survive the relentless swarm. Gather resources, build your defenses, draft in-game upgrades, and fight alongside your base to hold the line. Play solo or with up to 3 friends.
Players who liked Swarmhold also play
Steam players who put hours into Swarmhold 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.
KingFish
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Top pick for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Swarmhold.
A 2-player asymmetric co-op game where a King and a giant Fish, a living island, build a city, travel between islands, and defend their kingdom together. One plans from above. The other fights on the ground. Together they stand.
basecamp
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Second-strongest match for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
Fight waves of mutated creatures in this roguelite tower defense game. Turrets can be used to defend or to harvest — you decide! How much can you secure before being overrun?
GRAIN ROT
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Third-strongest match for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
A horror co-op extraction builder set in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Descend with your friends into shifting ruins, rip out furniture, and scavenge for loot before the Corrupted close in. Make it back alive, then rebuild the Outpost to better your chances for the next run.
Tower Arena Survive
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Ranked #4 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmhold.
Tower Arena Survive (TAS) is a dynamic mix of roguelike and tower defense, where your castle becomes an impregnable fortress. Use 80+ weapons and 88 upgrades to balance income, damage, and defense against up to 7 foes. Buy monsters to disrupt enemy waves and change the tide of battle!
Crypt Keeper
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Ranked #5 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Swarmhold.
Unleash your inner necromancer in Crypt Keeper – a roguelite tower defense game. Raise skeleton armies, defend your crypt, and manipulate enemy waves with the ESSENCE-IAL update.
Echo Zero
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Ranked #6 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Swarmhold.
Descend into a dangerous, procedurally generated sci-fi underworld. Explore, gather resources, uncover powerful wargear and upgrades, rally your droids, build and defend your base, and battle a mysterious new species on the verge of breaching the surface, either alone or in co-op.
Planet Gemini
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Ranked #7 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmhold.
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Endless Defense
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Ranked #8 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmhold.
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmhold.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmhold.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmhold.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Swarmhold
- Does Swarmhold have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Swarmhold supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Swarmhold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Swarmhold are KingFish, basecamp, GRAIN ROT.
- Who developed Swarmhold?
- Swarmhold was developed by Peng-O-Labs.
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 Swarmhold.
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