Ant Empire

Ant Empire is a turn-based strategy and management game in which five ant species compete to build the top empire. Each species has characteristics based on its natural behavior. You can play a unique campaign as each species or start a free-play game with different settings, maps and objectives.

Develop your colonies

Colonies grow more powerful each day, and you decide how each nest specializes. You can develop military strongholds, economic centers, research hubs, defensive outposts or breeding grounds for new colonies. Each colony has several ways to shape its development:

• Set the production ratio of workers, soldiers and princesses.
• Assign workers to forage, dig or nurse.
• Choose a colony focus for a particular bonus.
• Select the food eaten by the queen to grant different bonuses.
• Use abilities unique to each species, as well as actions such as Set Food Trap, Defense Mode and Sacrifice Princess.
• Build perks to give a colony bonuses.
• Choose a nest type when creating a nest.

Expand and defend

Use influence to claim nearby tiles or remove claims held by enemy colonies. You can attack enemy nests or reinforce friendly ones. Soldiers are much stronger than workers, but they do not forage for food, dig to expand the nest or nurse to increase production. Princesses establish new nests around the map.

As your empire expands, you manage your soldiers’ positions, plan attacks, oversee the economy and respond to enemy moves. Research points gained each day unlock features, improve actions, raise limits and increase stats. Perk points are harder to obtain and provide improvements for an individual colony; influence is used to claim nearby tiles and remove enemy claims.

Modes and records

The game includes multiple modes, achievements and randomly generated events. A daily log summarizes events, while graphs compare species’ stats over time and a side-by-side view shows detailed stats for ants of every species. A tutorial covers the basics, and the game saves automatically.