Games like Nights of Nil
If Nights of Nil is your kind of game, the closest matches are Claire: Operation Velvet, Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation and Ants Times Infinity — 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 Nights of Nil: Reclaim the islands of Nil in a top-down action-strategy adventure. Switch between any villager, build settlements, survive escalating night raids, complete quests, and drive the necromancer from the archipelago.
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Claire: Operation Velvet
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Top pick for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Nights of Nil.
Play as Claire to battle the evil forces invading the world. Harness the power of souls to wield weapons and complete missions. Uncover Claire's story and discover what the malicious Velvet wants to achieve.
Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation
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Second-strongest match for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nights of Nil.
Fight ever-mutating bacteria and viruses, collect gene modules from fallen pathogens, evolve and strengthen your immune system, unlock a variety of medical interventions, and create powerful synergistic builds to survive an ever-escalating infection.
Ants Times Infinity
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Third-strongest match for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nights of Nil.
Craft your nest underground, finding powerful combinations of chambers and pheromones to build the perfect ant-spawning engine. Then unleash them in their thousands onto the surface, directing workers to fuel the swarm while soldiers and champions push out to conquer enemy territories.
StrategySteam ↗Red Rocket Defencism
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Ranked #4 for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Nights of Nil.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
Scarecropia
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Ranked #5 for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Nights of Nil.
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
Tech Division
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Ranked #7 for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nights of Nil.
Play as Simone! Build and command your squad of bots on the field. Battle through swarms of enemy Wrikes who have a diverse set of their own abilities. Use resources and upgrades to get through the relentless Wrike factions to reunite with your friends! Hopefully you are not too late.
Shades Of War
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Ranked #8 for Nights of Nil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Nights of Nil.
A fast-paced mini-RTS where you spread your color across the map, build towns and defenses, forge (and betray) alliances, and battle up to 8 colonies at once. Expand, fortify, and dominate the grid in chaotic territory-control warfare.
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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 Nights of Nil.
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 Nights of Nil.
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 Nights of Nil.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nights of Nil.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nights of Nil.
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.
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 Nights of Nil.
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 Nights of Nil.
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 Nights of Nil
- What games are most similar to Nights of Nil?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nights of Nil are Claire: Operation Velvet, Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation, Ants Times Infinity.
- Who developed Nights of Nil?
- Nights of Nil was developed by Glass City Games.
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