
Dev Diary #8: From Pocket to Desktop
Hello to all ant colonies! Ant Colony is coming to Steam soon, and that meant answering a question we'd never had to answer before: what does our game look like when it isn't…




Pixel Cells, Polden Publishing
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
You shape the entire colony as one living system: set priorities, build the infrastructure and pick your castes, then watch hundreds of autonomous workers carry out your plan. The colony must prevail!
Seekers fan out across the forest to find food, and loaders haul it home along steady supply lines. Watch resources stream between the surface and your nest in a living conveyor of ants – the better your routes, the faster your colony grows.
Freely build and carve your own underground kingdom, tunnel by tunnel – any block can be dug out and built on. Place storerooms, barracks, brood chambers and farms wherever you like, and grow from a few diggers into a sprawling, living nest.
80+ foes – spiders, scorpions, wasps and rival colonies – raid your nest, steal your food and hunt your queen. Turn your tunnels into choke points to hold the line, then march your swarm topside to raze enemy nests and take the map!
Every ant has a role. Workers, carriers, scouts, warriors and more, each with its own look and strengths. Unlock new species and evolutions, and combine castes into almost any ant build you can imagine.
Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
Hello to all ant colonies! Ant Colony is coming to Steam soon, and that meant answering a question we'd never had to answer before: what does our game look like when it isn't…
Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
Hello to all ant colonies! It's time to talk about the design of the new locations. Four new episodes went through many stages of technical and artistic design. We assembled each…
Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
Hello to all ant colonies! This is the bombardier beetle. When we added a ranged unit to the game, a huge number of players sent us this exact insect and suggested adding it.…
Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
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Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
Hello to all ant colonies! Today we want to share with you a development diary of the new mountain episodes. We have added new events on the map, made wasps aggressive to other…
Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
Hello to all ant colonies! The next major part of the underground update is the introduction of new enemies and changes to how underground spiders are generated. Currently,…
Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam announcement
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Ant Colony: Wild ForestSteam patch notes
We Want to Know You Better Your feedback helps us shape the future of Ant Colony: Wild Forest. We’ve added a new in-game survey that appears after completing the demo (or not).…