Games like Buggos
If Buggos is your kind of game, the closest matches are Buggos 2, 春秋 and Empires of the Undergrowth — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and funny. 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 Buggos: Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
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Steam players who put hours into Buggos 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.
Buggos 2
WHY THIS
Shares base building, skill tree progression and a funny mood with Buggos.
Top pick for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
春秋
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Buggos.
Second-strongest match for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
此为以春秋时代为背景，历史战略类即时制游戏。两千多年前华夏大地锦绣山河一眼尽收，可在其间建造城郭，构筑关隘，修筑长城，农商、车船、战阵行走其间。礼崩乐坏，百家兴起、诸侯争霸、异族入侵、合纵连横，列国之伐兵、伐交、伐谋就此展开。磅礴壮丽的春秋画卷待君前来指点江山！
Empires of the Undergrowth
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Buggos.
Third-strongest match for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Cataclismo
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Buggos.
Ranked #4 for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Buggos.
Ranked #5 for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Buggos.
Ranked #6 for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Buggos.
Ranked #7 for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Buggos.
Ranked #8 for Buggos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Buggos at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buggos.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buggos.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Buggos.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Buggos.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Buggos.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Buggos.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Buggos.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Buggos on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
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!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Buggos.
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 Simulation and Casual with Buggos.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buggos.
‘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 Simulation with Buggos.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buggos.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Intrepid Marmot
Other recommendable Steam games by Intrepid Marmot, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Buggos 2
WHY THIS
Shares base building, skill tree progression and a funny mood with Buggos.
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Buggos. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Praise Dead
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Buggos.
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Buggos. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Buggos.
Praise Dead is a roguelike auto-battler where you create zombies from the parts of dead villagers and monsters. Use your zombies to defeat waves of demons, and to harvest resources to improve and upgrade your village.
Gravity Shot
WHY THIS
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Buggos. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buggos.
Sling shot explosive nuclear warheads into collision course with your planetary assassination targets. Using the gravitation of a planet against itself, while navigating your payload around asteroids, moons and even Black Holes for devastating effect!
Goblin Summer Camp
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Buggos.
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Buggos. Shares Casual with Buggos.
The one true multiplayer goblin simulator. Play Goblin Tag and acquire power ups that let you leap across the entire map. Play Hide and Seek and annoy your friends with ‘REEEES’ when they cant find you. Stay alive in Death Run without being trapped. Be a goblin and do goblin things!
Frequently asked about Buggos
- Does Buggos run on Steam Deck?
- Buggos is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Buggos cost?
- Buggos is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Buggos?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buggos are Buggos 2, 春秋, Empires of the Undergrowth.
- Who developed Buggos?
- Buggos was developed by Intrepid Marmot.
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