Drunk on Nectar

Drunk on Nectar is a micro-scale 3D nature simulation in which you play as animals, including pollinators and predators. Its world is represented at millimeter scale, letting you experience the lives of tiny creatures. You can follow species through their lifecycles, enter survival and combat modes, create and explore environments, or take on creature quests.

Animal lifecycles

In Lifecycles mode, you control an animal from birth to maturity. Predators hunt and move at high speed to survive, while prey feed and hide from predators. On reaching adulthood, each species has its own mating and reproduction sequence; the lifecycle then begins again with a new egg and a new gender.

The game includes six lifecycles:

• Praying Mantis
• Jumping Spider
• Monarch Butterfly
• Common Blue Butterfly
• Ladybug
• Grasshopper

The Monarch Butterfly begins as an egg smaller than a pinhead and grows through metamorphosis into an adult. A Jumping Spider hatches inside a silken egg sac guarded by its mother, then balloons through the air on a strand of silk while searching for prey. A Praying Mantis begins high inside a massive living Tree World, explores the tree for prey, then grows wings and flies in search of a mate.

Survival and combat

Survival Sim lets you play as a species without focusing on its full lifecycle, for a shorter session. Face Off is a one-on-one brawler-style confrontation between two species, which can be predators or prey.

Create and explore

Create & Design, Nature mode gives you control of a sandbox map where you can add plants, animals and props, and control the flow of time. You can create scenarios and experience them as a creature of your choice.

Planetary Ecology is a 3D painting mini-game in which you paint biomes as terrain across a planetary sphere. It also includes simple educational narratives about planetary ecology. In Free Exploration, you use the Random Map Ecology Editor to explore generated maps at your own pace, without survival pressure.

Quests and worlds

Creature Quests are adventure-style challenges for the Jumping Spider and Ladybug, with Steam leaderboards that track the fastest times. Random map generation is available in all game modes, and you can enter your own random seed to create potentially infinite variations.