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Games like Wild Hive

If Wild Hive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Captain Contraption’s Safari Park, Cloudlings and Jammed — 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.

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About Wild Hive: Build your own bee hive in this cozy roguelite. Hatch worker bees, forage nectar and sell your honey on the stock market. The royal crown demands more honey every year! Will your hive thrive or fall apart?

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby Studio42
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Steam players who put hours into Wild Hive 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.

  1. Captain Contraption’s Safari Park

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wild Hive.

    Build a safari park where strange animals eat, breed and turn against each other in a living, breathing, ecosystem. Design paths to guide your visitors to the best moments, and unlock weirder creatures to clone with every run.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Cloudlings

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Hive.

    Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Jammed

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Hive.

    You are a traffic engineer. Draw roads and bridges, connect growing districts, and watch your city come alive. Design efficient interchanges and avoid traffic jams.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.49 USDSteam ↗
  4. Camping Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Hive.

    Build the campsite of your dreams, open all year round. Bare pitch or luxury lodge: the choice is yours. Manage plots, restrooms, weather and staff, and watch your campers live, complain… and come back. Reach for the stars!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Surviving Mars: Relaunched

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wild Hive.

    The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

    2025StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Ancient Cities

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Hive.

    Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. IDLE BOSS RUSH

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Hive.

    Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Captain of Industry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Wild Hive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Hive.

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wild Hive.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Hive.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wild Hive.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wild Hive.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Hive.

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wild Hive.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Hive.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wild Hive.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Wild Hive

What games are most similar to Wild Hive?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wild Hive are Captain Contraption’s Safari Park, Cloudlings, Jammed.
Who developed Wild Hive?
Wild Hive was developed by Studio42.

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 Wild Hive.

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