Games like Swarmdustry
If Swarmdustry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vena, Nightwater and Coremine Corp — 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 Swarmdustry: Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, build mega factories and evolve organic industry. Balance growth, efficiency, creep spread, and survive in a world that fights back.
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Steam players who put hours into Swarmdustry 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.
Vena
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Top pick for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Vena is an automation roguelike where you place hexagonal tiles to build resource networks of increasing complexity. Roll dice to shop, pick perks, and combine elements into ingenious structures. Chase unique builds every run and immerse yourself in the flow to satisfy the center’s rising demands.
Nightwater
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Second-strongest match for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Coremine Corp
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Third-strongest match for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Welcome to CoreMine Corp. Your job here is to set up production chains, manage your electricity, juggle contracts and stock-up while upgrading your factory. Time to prove your worth.
NationForge
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Ranked #4 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Elsewhere
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Ranked #5 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Swarmdustry.
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Satisfactory
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Ranked #6 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Starground
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Ranked #7 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Another Farm Roguelike
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Ranked #8 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.
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 Indie with Swarmdustry.
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 and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
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?
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmdustry.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Swarmdustry.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmdustry.
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.
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Frequently asked about Swarmdustry
- What games are most similar to Swarmdustry?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Swarmdustry are Vena, Nightwater, Coremine Corp.
- Who developed Swarmdustry?
- Swarmdustry was developed by Mitchy Studios.
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 Swarmdustry.
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