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Deep Among the Swarm
Games like Deep Among the Swarm

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A dark, challenging survival RTS roguelite where you drill deeper underground, build defenses, and fight endless swarms in a post-apocalyptic world.

Drill Core
A strategic planet-mining colony sim that mixes base management with tower defense, balancing resource extraction against escalating alien attacks.
2025-07-17
- Science fiction
- Strategy

Indie

Side view

Sandbox

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Swarm Queen

A single-player RTS where you spawn self-controlled space-bug swarms, balancing quick-to-learn rules with challenging tactical micro-management.

2017-12-19

Action
Strategy
Indie

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Rogue Command

A single-player RTS-roguelite combining base building, bullet-time unit control, and a fresh arsenal every run, with permadeath runs.

2026-05-14

Action
Warfare
Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

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Million Depth

A compact single-player action-strategy roguelike with time-freezing combat and weapon crafting, set in an atmospheric underground world.

2025-11-11

Action
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Drama

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Swarm Grinder

A single-player action roguelite mech game against alien swarms and evolving cells, with skill-based builds and a survivors-style loop that reviewers found fun but thin after several hours.

2024-04-22

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Gem Miner TD

A single-player tower defense that mixes gem mining, merging towers, maze design, and roguelike perks — with all building happening between waves.

2026-01-20

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Here Comes The Swarm

A pauseable single-player survival RTS on planet Ulora, where you build, manage, and defend settlements against an endless Swarm, with accessibility options and a roughly 11-hour median reported playtime.

2026-03-05

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD

A run-based single-player tower defense focused on one tower, loadout-building, and alien hordes, with a hands-on, trade-off-heavy feel.

2024-07-29

Action
Strategy
Indie

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Below the Stone

A tense extraction roguelike about dwarven descents into a hidden underground world, with permadeath and rewarding risk-reward exploration (reviewers report ~12 hours).

2023-11-17

Action
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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CleanFall

A survival rogue-like about building mobile death machines and turrets to fend off hordes while tunneling through hostile underground worlds, set in a strange, atmospheric wasteland and currently offering a compact early-access experience.

2025-08-08

Action
Horror
Survival
Strategy
Side view
Open world

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Unto Deepest Depths

A punishing turn-based roguelite that forces aggressive play, with short runs and positive early reviews.

2025-12-11

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Surface Breaker

A sci-fi rogue-like mining/tower-defense blend where you dig for artifacts, upgrade your ship, and defend it from waves of enemies in short, run-based sessions.

2026-04-09

Action
Strategy
Indie