Games like Formic Fortress
If Formic Fortress is your kind of game, the closest matches are Haphazard Angel, Squid x Squid and Lights Out — 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 Formic Fortress: Formic Fortress is a local co-op tower defense party game with rogue-like elements. Scavenge and throw blocks to build your anthill and fend off waves of nasty bugs! Protect your queen, survive the swarm, and unleash the dormant strength of your ammo through powerful upgrades resetting every run.
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Steam players who put hours into Formic Fortress 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.
Haphazard Angel
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Top pick for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Team up (or screw over) your friends in Haphazard Angel! Share one angel with your friends and navigate chaotic challenges where cooperation and hilarious sabotage collide in this 2-4 player party game. Who needs teamwork when you’ve got wings and questionable decisions?
Squid x Squid
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Second-strongest match for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
BE SQUID. PLAY SPORTS. FIGHT FRIENDS. Squid x Squid is a fast-paced arcade sports game. Blending competitive technical set-ups with the frantic chaos of party games, it's the soccer-basketball-squid hybrid you never knew you needed.
Lights Out
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Third-strongest match for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Lights Out is a sokoban-style co-op game in which you make your way through a procedurally-generated mineshaft. Work as a team to gather resources, craft mirrors and use the Light Beam to fight against the hazards of this world, before it runs out of coal, and all will be covered in darkness.
Heave Ho 2
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Ranked #4 for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Formic Fortress.
Get a grip, it’s Heave Ho 2! The insane 2-4 player party game sequel takes the couch co-op mayhem online for the first time. Grab what you can and swing to win!
Elves of Duty
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Ranked #5 for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
A fast-paced couch party game for 1-4 players. Compete to deliver the most gifts in a range of dicey arenas. Take advantage of ridiculous power-ups as you blaze your way to first place and test the limits of your friendships.
GamingCouch.com
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Ranked #6 for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
GamingCouch.com is a same-room party game platform for 1–8 players. Join with a phone, tablet, computer, or controller, then compete in a growing collection of quick, chaotic mini-games made for game nights and parties. Couch party games made easy!
Overserved: Food Fighters!
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Ranked #7 for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Overserved: Food Fighters is a fast-paced multiplayer party brawler for 1–8 players. Pick an adorable critter, dash through chaotic arenas, and hurl food-themed projectiles at your rivals in frantic matches with full cross-play across every platform.
The Float Never Stops
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Ranked #8 for Formic Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
The Float Never Stops is a 1–4 player 3D co-op chaos ride. Run, jump, grab, carry, throw and attach props while your float keeps moving, turning teamwork, bad ideas and controlled physics into ridiculous chain reactions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Formic Fortress at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~84% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~52% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~41% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Formic Fortress.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~68% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Formic Fortress.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~76% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Formic Fortress.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~84% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Formic Fortress.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~52% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~52% under Formic Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Formic Fortress.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Formic Fortress.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Formic Fortress.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Formic Fortress.
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 Casual with Formic Fortress.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Formic Fortress.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Formic Fortress.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Formic Fortress
- How much does Formic Fortress cost?
- Formic Fortress is listed on Steam at 6.29 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Formic Fortress have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Formic Fortress supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Formic Fortress?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Formic Fortress are Haphazard Angel, Squid x Squid, Lights Out.
- Who developed Formic Fortress?
- Formic Fortress was developed by Tricade Interactive.
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