Games like Swarmhold
If Swarmhold is your kind of game, the closest matches are KingFish, One More Tower and Runehold — 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: A base-building action roguelite where the swarm never lets up. Drop into new terrain every run. Gather resources, build your defenses, draft upgrades mid-run, and fight alongside your base to hold the line. Solo or up to 4-player co-op.
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.
One More Tower
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Second-strongest match for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Swarmhold.
One More Tower is a horde survival TD set in a medieval fantasy world. Pioneer an unexplored forest, build your town and defenses, and hold out against the onslaught of enemies. How long can you survive?
Runehold
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Third-strongest match for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Swarmhold.
Build up defenses, recruit helpers, gather items and defend the stronghold against an ever increasing number and difficulty of enemies who come at night.
Grumpy Hero Grinder
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Ranked #4 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Swarmhold.
A satirical tower defense roguelite with chaotic real-time combat. Play as a dungeon boss defending your home from hordes of vicious heroes. Place deadly traps, expand your dungeon, grow stronger, and smash the invaders yourself - all to get back to your well-deserved nap!
GRAIN ROT
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Ranked #5 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.
basecamp
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Ranked #6 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?
Zombies Per Minute
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Ranked #7 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmhold.
Zombies Per Minute is a factory-building roguelite where everything you build is measured by one thing: how many zombies you can kill per minute. Yes, really. Use your imagination to grow your factory, make decisive choices each wave and progress from one outpost to the other. Until Earth is saved.
Astro Company
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Ranked #8 for Swarmhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Swarmhold.
Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.
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, One More Tower, Runehold.
- 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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