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A single-player strategy game about commanding an insectoid hivemind to build an underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm in a beautiful but hostile underworld.

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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Buggos 2

Build an insect hive, evolve deadly bug swarms, and auto-battle humans across increasingly difficult maps in this punishing single-player strategy sim.

2025-09-25

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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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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Empires of the Undergrowth

A single-player RTS/base-builder about commanding ant colonies, building nests, and using pheromone tactics in insect warfare, with an educational twist and a save-system flaw in story missions.

2024-06-07

Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

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FEED THE QUEEN

A single-player incremental strategy game where you gather food, upgrade workers, and combine synergies to feed a growing colony, with a median reviewer playtime around 10 hours.

2026-05-25

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Be Queen Bee

A cute, fast-paced single-player action-strategy game where you command a bee swarm with pheromones, capture flower fields, and evolve your hive in a short ~2-hour campaign.

2026-02-04

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

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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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Buggos

A casual single-player RTS auto battler where you lead a bug swarm, customize 120+ evolutions, and assault human bases in a simple, addictive, chaotic campaign of roughly 8-10 hours.

2022-03-17

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Dwelvers

A darkly comedic Dungeon Keeper-like real-time strategy game about building and managing an evil dungeon while battling humans.

2023-12-19

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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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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Calyx

A single-player strategy game of base building and resource gathering against plant-aliens, with a moderate-length campaign and a rough-around-the-edges feel.

2026-01-29

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

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Hive and Seek

A single-player side-scrolling base-building strategy game about rallying robots to clear monster-infested space stations, with feedback highlighting tedious micro-management and a short reviewer playtime.

2025-12-04

Action
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Simulator