Creepy Crawly Combat Begins in Empire of the Ants

Small scale RTS Empire of the Ants launches across PC and console.

Players ready to take on insectoid RTS Empire of the Ants can leap onto action and build their colony today. PC players prepared to pre order can head into the garden right now, while the official launch on 7 November 7 2024 unlocks the game across PC, PlayStation 5 et Xbox Series X|S. Adapted from Bernard Werber’s best-selling novel, this effort from Microids and Tower Five is a unique pivot away from the military industrial complex and into a different type of battle for survival.

Ahead of the full release, the developer dropped a new launch trailer. It gives potential queen and kings of the anthill an opportunity to see the campaign ahead. Rendered in lifelike graphics, a 20-hour-long campaign finds your colony’s survival at stake. Sprawling out across a miniature ecosystem in the heart of the Fontainebleau forest. You play as the 103,683rd ant, determined to defend its colony. Take to the undergrowth in a photo realistic forest, explore the world, and overcome the threats that await.

You’ll take on enemy nests and natural predators in a variety of real time engagements. Trim your roster of ants to incorporate different capabilities. Use support and super-predator legion as you see fit and delve into an upgrade tree to access different ants. It’s all very familiar territory for StarCraft or Warcraft III veterans looking for a bold new perspective. Of course, you’ll need to deal with ants! Ants, all up in your monitor, and that might be a hard line for some of you. For anybody ready to become kind of this hill, head over to the official website to find out ore about Empire of the Ants, or try out the Steam demo right now.

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For those of you who I’ve not met yet, my name is Ed. After an early indoctrination into PC gaming, years adrift on the unwashed internet, running a successful guild, and testing video games, I turned my hand to writing about them. Now, you will find me squawking across a multitude of sites and even getting to play games now and then

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