Games like Swarmdustry
If Swarmdustry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vena, Coremine Corp and Nuclear Engineer Tycoon — 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, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Players who liked Swarmdustry also play
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.
An automation roguelike where every run fits in one sitting. Place hexagonal tiles to grow a production organism, roll dice in the shop to buy new ones, and pick perks that shape your build. Survive nine phases as the Nexus's hunger outpaces you, then break the economy and do it all differently.
Coremine Corp
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Second-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.
Nuclear Engineer Tycoon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
Build a nuclear power plant and manage reactors, generators, and turbines, producing energy to keep the city lit and prevent reactor explosions. Earn resources, research nuclear technologies, build larger and more modern reactors, refine uranium, and create a nuclear energy empire.
Fab.exe
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Ranked #4 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
FluxWerks
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Ranked #5 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Lexip
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Ranked #6 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Attrition Line
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Ranked #7 for Swarmdustry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Swarmdustry.
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
NationForge
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Ranked #8 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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Swarmdustry at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~82% under Swarmdustry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Swarmdustry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~63% under Swarmdustry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Swarmdustry.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~48% under Swarmdustry on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Swarmdustry.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~44% under Swarmdustry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Swarmdustry.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~63% under Swarmdustry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Swarmdustry.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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
WHY THIS
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
- How much does Swarmdustry cost?
- Swarmdustry is listed on Steam at 26.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- 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, Coremine Corp, Nuclear Engineer Tycoon.
- Who developed Swarmdustry?
- Swarmdustry was developed by Mitchy Studios.
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