Games like Swarmdustry
If Swarmdustry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vena, Nightwater and NationForge — 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.
NationForge
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Third-strongest match 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.
Coremine Corp
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Ranked #4 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.
Lazy Witch's Factory
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Ranked #5 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Your debt comes due in 30 minutes. Twist the rules through demonic contracts and survive impossible production quotas in this chaotic factory-building roguelite.
The Last Seed
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Ranked #6 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Elsewhere
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Ranked #7 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 #8 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!
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmdustry.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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.
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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, NationForge.
- 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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