Games like Rise of Mutant Swarms
If Rise of Mutant Swarms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Galaxy Critter Co., SENTRY and Desperate Place — 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 Rise of Mutant Swarms: Rise of Mutant Swarms is a strategy survival tower-defense game where you defend the base against waves of evolving mutant enemies. Place and upgrade turrets, adapt to enemy abilities, and make critical decisions as the pressure rises with every wave.
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Steam players who put hours into Rise of Mutant Swarms 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.
Galaxy Critter Co.
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Top pick for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Galaxy Critter Co. is a cute chaotic roguelike where tower defense meets top-down shooting: build by day, fight by night, and craft broken synergies to survive the Swarm.
SENTRY
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Second-strongest match for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Desperate Place
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Third-strongest match for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Sanctum 2
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Ranked #4 for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
X-Morph: Defense
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Ranked #5 for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Alien Shooter TD
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Ranked #6 for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Innovative Tower Defense inspired by legendary Alien Shooter series! The game was created in keeping with the best traditions of Sigma`s games, no concessions of any kind - everything is just like in real life!
Infested Planet
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Ranked #7 for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
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Ranked #8 for Rise of Mutant Swarms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise of Mutant Swarms at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~63% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~88% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~63% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~88% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~88% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Master Healer Kale with useless party
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Priced ~50% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Hexcells Plus
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Priced ~63% under Rise of Mutant Swarms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
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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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Rise of Mutant Swarms.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Rise of Mutant Swarms
- How much does Rise of Mutant Swarms cost?
- Rise of Mutant Swarms is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rise of Mutant Swarms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of Mutant Swarms are Galaxy Critter Co., SENTRY, Desperate Place.
- Who developed Rise of Mutant Swarms?
- Rise of Mutant Swarms was developed by Feative Studios.
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