Games like The Hive

If The Hive scratched a tense and dark itch for you, keep reading. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Empires of the Undergrowth
Command ant colonies in battles of hundreds, dig sprawling nests around your queen, and steer your workers with pheromones. An RTS under the microscope: grow your brood, raid rival colonies, and survive a world where every beetle is the size of a tank.
Replayable
94% of 18,082 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 548$29.99
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
88% of 1,221 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Empire of the Ants
A photorealistic RTS played from the ground, not the sky. You are ant 103,683, commanding legions through a 20-hour campaign, pheromone powers and ranked duels. Strategy at blade-of-grass scale, with battles fought across leaves, twigs and termite war fronts.
Tense, Replayable
73% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$39.99
Bee Island
Run a bee colony, build a hive out of honeycombs, and defend the queen from waves of enemies with turrets, warriors and, if it comes to that, nuclear weapons. Play solo or in online co-op: a cute, colorful mix of city building, resource management and tower defense that gets properly tense.
Tense, Fast-paced
86% of 1,653 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Here Comes The Swarm
A survival RTS with a pause button: build a settlement, feed your people, raise an army and hold the walls while thousands of swarm creatures throw themselves at them. Then take the fight out to the hive mind. Medieval fantasy, tough defenses and runs that never play out the same way twice.
Tense, Replayable
84% of 382 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$19.99
Hive Blight
Lead a squad of insect warriors against the Fungomancer and its spreading blight. Pick two clans, mix their bugs, gear and tricks into a working team, then place them well and watch them fight. Losing a run just means a stranger, funnier swarm next time.
Replayable
93% of 392 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.49
Be Queen Bee
"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.
Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
95% of 263 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.
Tense, Replayable
94% of 386 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
Deep Among the Swarm
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
Tense, Dark, Replayable
85% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Home Wars
Command an army of toy soldiers defending a house from swarms of bugs. Run the war from your Headquarters turn by turn, then fight the battles in real time, and jump into first person in any unit whenever the line needs holding. Napalm, artillery and air strikes against ants, spiders and worse.
Tense
78% of 1,144 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
From Glory To Goo
A sci-fi survival RTS where you build a colony on a hostile planet while waves of alien Goo close in. Expand, fortify and call down orbital fire from your ship overhead, then hold the line. Captains level up, factions play differently, maps are procedurally generated, and every run dares you to last a little longer.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
96% of 1,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$7.79
Swarm Simulator: Evolution
Start as a handful of larvae and hatch your way to a quintillion bugs and universe conquest. A calm incremental game in a clean 3D world: evolve units, capture territory, brew elixirs, and let the swarm grow while you are away. Numbers go up, and it feels great.
77% of 561 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17Free

Cheaper than The Hive

Buggos

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

$14.99

Bee Island

Grow a hive, research technology and hold the line against waves of enemies, solo or in online co-op.

$9.99

Hive Blight

Lead a squad of insect warriors against the Fungomancer and its spreading blight.

$12.49

Swarm Queen

A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.

$7.49

Deep Among the Swarm

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies.

$8.99

Home Wars

Lead plastic troops in a turn-based war against the bugs, then take direct control of any soldier, tank or plane when the fight starts.

$9.99

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

Infested Planet

Lead a small squad against a mutating alien swarm, rebuilding your tactics mid-fight to survive each brutal, fast-paced run.

$14.99

Beetle Uprising

Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot!

$9.99

ReEarth

ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope.

$7.99

Machinefall

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map.

$14.99

Freaking Meatbags

Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks!

$9.99

Hidden gems like The Hive

Be Queen Bee

"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones.

Free

Hive Blight

Lead a squad of insect warriors against the Fungomancer and its spreading blight.

$12.49

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

Here Comes The Swarm

Raise a medieval settlement, feed your settlers and fight back a swarming hive mind in runs that never repeat.

$19.99

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

Machinefall

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map.

$14.99

Microtopia

Grow a robot ant colony by drawing pheromone trails, sorting workers and raising new queens, all at your own calm pace.

$19.99

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

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

Chromosome Evil 2

Command a strike team and a resource-starved convoy through a Lovecraftian apocalypse, in real time or with active pause.

$19.99

Deep Among the Swarm

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies.

$8.99

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