Games like Ant
If Ant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Oh Shear!, Anty Crush and Sea and Sundry — 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 Ant: Build a living ant colony that can stay on your desktop while you work. Hatch unusual ants, place nest and food rooms, collect coins, and expand from a glass habitat into drawers, pipes, walls, roots, and the forgotten depths below.
Players who liked Ant also play
Steam players who put hours into Ant 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.
Oh Shear!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
Grab your shears and build a cozy wool empire! Oh Shear! is a relaxing incremental game about managing a colorful flock of sheep. Upgrade your tools, automate the pasture, and master the skill tree. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the 'shear satisfaction' of numbers going up!
Anty Crush
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
Lead a tiny ant colony through a giant candy world. Crush sweets, collect crumbs, unlock upgrades, grow your colony, and help the Queen evolve in this cozy incremental game.
Sea and Sundry
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Ant.
Sea and Sundry is a short incremental game about an otter and the sea. Catch clams, scallops, and urchins before they slip away, then crack them open for the tasty morsels. Adapt each night for quicker hands, a sharper eye, or a heavier rock. Forage farther each day, all the way to the abyss.
SimulationSteam ↗Quackyard
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ant.
A cozy incremental farming sim about helping your duck friend clean out their backyard. Dig, mine and farm your way to clearing up the space so that a tea party with friends can be hosted.
Ants Took the Kitchen
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
In Ants Took the Kitchen, you lead a small colony of ants determined to take over the kitchen. Collect crumbs, carry increasingly larger pieces of food, buy upgrades for each area, automate the collection process, and turn a simple corner of the floor into a hungry swarm.
Happy Pawlets
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ant.
Happy Pawlets is a pet-breeding and desktop companion game. Choose the parents, discover how colors, patterns, body shapes, and features pass through generations, raise your favorite offspring, and bring them onto your desktop.
Hivekeepers
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Ant.
A relaxing and strategic beehive roguelike. Collect honey, hatch bees, and unlock powerful upgrades as your bees defend the hive from hungry invaders.
Petunia's Purgatory
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Ant.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ant.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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 Ant.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ant.
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.
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Frequently asked about Ant
- What games are most similar to Ant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ant are Oh Shear!, Anty Crush, Sea and Sundry.
- Who developed Ant?
- Ant was developed by Fruitdish.
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 Ant.
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