Empires of the Undergrowth is in Early Access on Steam!
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Empires of the Undergrowth - Fire Ant Trailer - Indie DB
Empires of the Undergrowth – Early Access Trailer - Indie DB
"Your queen has set up home beneath a rotting log. She is fat, and vulnerable. Her first brood will need to move quickly if the colony is to survive. Their priority now is to find food, and there is plenty around; but there are other hungry creatures in the undergrowth. The workers will need to be vigilant."
Empires of the Undergrowth is an ant colony management game, in a fast-paced real-time strategy style. The player excavates their nest underground, constructing tunnels and chambers to store food and raise brood. On the surface, the ants claim territory, gather resources, overwhelm fearsome arachnids and clash with other colonies. Nest design, army size, composition and attack timing are key to securing victory.
Missions are narrated from the perspective of a documentary film maker studying the ants, who offers intelligent insight into the goings-on of the colony and the undergrowth beyond. The primary game mode in early access is Formicarium, where you take ownership of a home colony of unique DNA-harvesting ants as they work to assimilate the desirable traits of their foes. You can upgrade them by playing one-off missions, sometimes with your home colony and sometimes with other ant species.
Official Website: Eotugame.com
YouTube Channel: Youtube.com
Stomt Page: Stomt.com
Dev Blog: Slugdisco.com
Facebook Page: Facebook.com
Twitter: @slugdisco
The major changes as well as the significant improvements and quality of life alterations are detailed below, but this release is much too big to fit everything into a reasonably-sized post! After the changes, read on to see our updated roadmap, showing where we intend to take the game now it has reached version 1.0.
If you're interested, you can read more about how we got to this point here Imgur.com
Finally, as I mentioned earlier, we’re not done yet. A few days after release there will be a newsletter going through this more closely, but we wanted to put the post-1.0 roadmap out a little early with the launch, so people can see what the immediate plan for the months ahead is.
Now, off to the savannah with you! And if this is your first time playing Empires of the Undergrowth, welcome. If it’s been on your radar for a while, we hope it’s been worth the wait! It’d be odd not to get slightly emotional at the end of a huge project like this one, and indeed I'm close to bawling my eyes out writing this out now. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us through the years. We love you all, and we literally couldn’t have done it without you.
We’ll see you in the Undergrowth,
The Slug Disco Team
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how do i play empires of the undergrowth
You can buy the game on Steam, Itch.io, GOG or EGS - there's also a free demo too!
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Hi everyone
My son is really excited to be able to play this game. I am getting too old and can’t figure out how to get the Empire of the Undergrowth game for him to play. From what I can see it looks like a free download but wanted your help. My boy would be on cloud 9.
Many thanks
An out of touch Dad
Hi, sorry that we have only just seen this - the game is available on Steam here: Store.steampowered.com
So, SimAnts for 2020?
Our game isn't a simulation like Sim Ant, this is more akin to Dungeon Keeper :)
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