Games like Boid

If Boid scratched a competitive and minimalist itch for you, keep reading. Browse these games for your next favorite.

Buggos
You are the hive. Grow your bug colony, set a rally point and send a writhing carpet of Buggos at the humans until nothing of their base is left. Reshape your swarm with 120+ evolutions across 54 missions, then hold the line in Survival or build your own maps. A casual RTS that rewards relentless offence.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Retro
88% of 1,217 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Tooth and Tail
A revolution of farm animals, fought with flamethrowing Boars and gas-lobbing Skunks. A fast, funny RTS where your commander is the cursor, matches last minutes, and the loser gets eaten.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
82% of 2,891 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
War of Dots
Grab territory, keep your armies fed, and out-think a real opponent in short, sharp matches. Easy to learn, hard to master, and quick enough for one more round.
Competitive, Minimalist, Replayable
81% of 7,745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89Free
Infested Planet
Five soldiers. One hundred thousand bugs. Infested Planet is a top-down tactical fight where the alien horde mutates every mission and your squad can be rebuilt mid-battle. Burn, flank, fall back and adapt, in short, brutal sessions that keep pulling you back for one more run.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Retro
94% of 2,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Grey Goo
An old-school real-time strategy on a frontier world, where three very different factions fight over the same pools of resource. Build a base, grow an army, and if you survive long enough, walk a game-ending Epic unit onto the field. Easy to pick up, hard to master.
Competitive, Replayable
69% of 2,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3
Zero-K
Zero-K is a real-time strategy game where physics does the fighting. Sculpt terrain into fortresses, toss battleships onto hilltops with gravity guns, and command 100+ units that dodge, kite and zig-zag on their own. A 70+ mission campaign solo or in co-op, plus online battles from 1v1 up to 16v16.
Competitive, Replayable
93% of 4,435 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 150Free
Line War
Line War is a strategy game where you command by drawing: lines across the map move tanks, hold fronts and launch attacks. Built around planning rather than fast clicking, with random maps, territory to conquer and matches for up to eight players. If you like outthinking an opponent more than outclicking one, this is your kind of war.
Competitive, Replayable
80% of 1,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
Interloper
Interloper is an online multiplayer real-time strategy game with matches that take only 5 minutes. Instead of destroying your opponent, you win by claiming domain. By predicting your opponent's movements, you corner them to claim the entire map.
Competitive, Minimalist, Replayable
84% of 410 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Swarm Queen
A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.
Replayable, Retro
94% of 386 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
WAR PARTY
War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?
Competitive, Replayable, Retro
66% of 378 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Operation: Polygon Storm
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Replayable, Retro
69% of 233 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Command thousands of units across entire worlds in a large-scale RTS about economy, territory and timing. Play the campaigns of the Post-Human Coalition and the Substrate, or take friends into ranked and unranked multiplayer. The fleets largely manage themselves, so the real battle is in where you build, what you research and when you strike.
Competitive, Replayable
76% of 2,714 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$29.99

Hidden gems like Boid

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$7.79

Annihilate The Spance

Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.

$29.99

Buggos 2

Play the villain, evolve your swarm with wild mutations, and let the horde do the dirty work.

$19.99

Moduwar

Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army.

$14.99

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$19.99

War of Dots

Claim territory and command minimalist armies in quick tactical matches against other players.

Free

Circle Empires 2

Build armies on colorful round maps, then take over neighbouring discs in quick matches, alone or with friends.

$12.99

Buggos

Command a hungry bug hive, evolve it in wild directions and drown human bases in a tide of chittering legs.

$14.99

Empire of the Ants

Command an ant colony through a story-rich campaign, then test your tactics against other players in ranked duels.

$9.99

Retro Commander

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

Free

Bot Wars

Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map.

$14.99

Line War

Draw fronts and attack routes across the map, then watch your tanks carry out the plan against up to seven other players.

$24.99

Newest games like Boid

Rogue Command

Command units, call down bases and draft a fresh build after every battle in a fast sci-fi RTS where each run plays out differently.

$19.99

Circle Empires 2

Build armies on colorful round maps, then take over neighbouring discs in quick matches, alone or with friends.

$12.99

Calyx

Build a fortified base on a hostile planet and fight back a spreading alien plant with tanks, flamethrowers and an orbital laser.

$18.74

War of Dots

Claim territory and command minimalist armies in quick tactical matches against other players.

Free

Buggos 2

Play the villain, evolve your swarm with wild mutations, and let the horde do the dirty work.

$19.99

Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids

Build bases, lead an army of robots, and squash brains in this radical hybrid between RTS and third-person shooter.

$29.99

Moduwar

Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army.

$14.99

Annihilate The Spance

Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.

$29.99

Empire of the Ants

Command an ant colony through a story-rich campaign, then test your tactics against other players in ranked duels.

$9.99

Mechabellum

Draft units, upgrade them between rounds, and let your tactics settle the fight while the mechs do the shooting.

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$19.99

Operation: Polygon Storm

A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy.

$14.99