Games like Darwinia

Did Darwinia leave you in a retro and surreal frame of mind? These games line up well for what comes next.

Multiwinia
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
Retro, Colorful, Fast-paced
82% of 408 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
The enemy is a liquid that floods the map like water, filling every valley and rising toward your city. You build an energy network, dig in on high ground and push it back with blasters, mortars and bombers. Simple rules, real strategy, and a fight you can pause to plan. It is tense, replayable and unlike anything else on the shelf.
Retro, Surreal, Colorful
96% of 922 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$4.99
The Desolate Hope
A derelict space station, four dreaming supercomputers, a creeping virus, and a coffee pot with legs. The Desolate Hope blends platforming, 8-bit dungeon crawling and turn-based boss fights into one strange, heartfelt sci-fi story. You have fifteen days of power left. Time to work.
Retro, Surreal, Atmospheric
92% of 1,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
FATAL ERROR - RTS
FATAL ERROR is a real-time strategy game on the digital battlefields of a computer world under attack. With your TAC-AID and advanced programming, you must eliminate all threats to the Mainframe and take the fight to the viruses. Discover an abstract world of limitless potential…and lurking dangers.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
95% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Microcosmum: survival of cells
A real-time strategy about microorganisms, played out in a calm, colorful microscopic world. Send your cells drifting across the level, absorb weaker neighbors and grow, and outmaneuver every rival on the board. Simple to learn, oddly soothing, and surprisingly tactical once the field fills up.
Colorful
80% of 1,119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Into the Breach
Giant bugs are tearing up the surface, and you have three mechs and an 8x8 grid to stop them. Every enemy attack is shown in advance, so losing is never bad luck: it is a mistake you can learn from. Short, tense, endlessly replayable tactics from the makers of FTL.
Retro, Tense
93% of 19,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 216$14.99
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
Retro, Surreal, Atmospheric
87% of 687 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Dying Breed
Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies. All to a '90s electro-metal soundtrack and FMV live-action cut scenes.
Retro, Tense
69% of 221 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Lead an elite fighting team battling for freedom from the sinister forces of the Earth Hegemony. Engage in combat on the bloody battlefields of four unique worlds. Encased in your Powered Battle Armour (PBA) you are an unstoppable fighting force.
Retro, Tense
96% of 106 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Protolife
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Retro, Tense
86% of 445 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
AI War 2
AI War 2 is a grand strategy and RTS hybrid where growing too fast is the real danger. Sneak, hack, build fleets and strike the AI's core before it notices you. Deep, tense and endlessly replayable, alone or with friends.
Tense
87% of 1,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99
Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional
The family computer is infected again. Fend off waves of viruses and adware with weapons built from Y2K classics like Pinball, Solitaire and Minesweeper, double-clicking folders for XP and keys in fast runs of about 30 to 40 minutes. A survivors-like with real bite under the nostalgia, and a lot of jokes.
Retro, Colorful, Tense
97% of 1,558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 131$5.09

Cheaper than Darwinia

R.O.O.T.S

R.O.O.T.S is a real-time strategy game that pits the player against colorful yet invasive enemies that must be overtaken before the player…

$1.99

BastionOS

A short active incremental game where you stack ludicrous weapons and upgrades onto a tower.

$3.30

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

In 2032 an Earth that knows only peace is forced to relearn the art of war.

$2.99

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

Lead an armored convoy through alien-held cities, planning routes and using the Commander's abilities to keep your squad alive.

$1.59

Artificial Defense

Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual…

$2.99

The Dark Legions

The Dark Legions is a 3d real-time strategy game in the medieval ages. You can command your army and build your empire through story driven missions.

$1.99

ROD: Revolt Of Defense

Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.

$0.99

Wirewalk()↳

Wirewalk()↳ is a whimsical adventure where you raid virus-riddled systems with a very big baseball bat.

$2.99

SEEP Universe

Kick butt in this retro 2D action-platformer! SEEP Universe is an indie game for PC inspired by the 8-16 bit era!

$2.99

Plague Inc: Evolved

Spread a pathogen across the globe, mutate it faster than humanity can fight back, and watch your strategy play out differently every run.

$2.99

Inescapable

Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose?

$2.99

Nodebuster

Aim at drifting shapes, harvest bits, buy upgrades, and let your cursor bloom into fireworks.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Darwinia

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional

Blast waves of viruses and adware with weapons built from old desktop classics, one fast run at a time.

$5.09

BastionOS

A short active incremental game where you stack ludicrous weapons and upgrades onto a tower.

$3.30

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

Moduwar

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

$14.99

BioGun

Get injected into the microscopic world of BioGun. Face viral threats and winding corridors on your mission to save man’s best friend from the inside.

$19.99