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Games like Wild Hive

If Wild Hive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Splash Park Tycoon, Captain Contraption’s Safari Park and Fablewood Chronicles — 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! How long will your hive survive?

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby Studio42
Wild Hive — Steam game cover

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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. Splash Park Tycoon

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a water park worth queuing for in this free tycoon game. Design twisting slides, create lively pools, and keep guests happy. Grow a profitable resort, tackle park challenges, or build without limits in the Creative Lab.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  2. Captain Contraption’s Safari Park

    WHY THIS

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

    A pixel-art roguelite safari park sim. Clone lions, medieval knights and sentient trucks into a park with no fences, then route your visitors past the chaos. You control the paths, the buildings and your robot staff. The one thing you don’t control is the animals.

    2027StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  3. Fablewood Chronicles

    WHY THIS

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

    Civilization, automated. Build a nation of moveable regions that runs while you work, then come back and see who took the crown while you were gone.

    2026StrategySimulationCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Cloudlings

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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 ↗
  5. Timberborn

    WHY THIS

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

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Surviving Mars: Relaunched

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 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 ↗
  7. Ancient Cities

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 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 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. IDLE BOSS RUSH

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 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 ↗

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 Splash Park Tycoon, Captain Contraption’s Safari Park, Fablewood Chronicles.
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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