Hive

Hive is a colonisation game about getting stranded on a planet in another solar system and finding fuel for your ship. You research technologies, build structures, gather resources and defend your settlement against increasingly hostile local inhabitants. To escape, you must capture and extract from local hives, then harvest crystals from deep inside them and liquefy the crystals into fuel.

Colonise the planet

Hive focuses on three parts of colonisation:

• Agriculture: grow food for your structures to boost their productivity.
• Industry: mine and refine resources.
• Defence: protect your walls from local inhabitants using a range of solutions.

You start with only a few resources and gather materials to develop technologies and reach the hives. Once alerted, the hives launch ongoing attacks with different enemies. Some Hive Queens have distinct abilities: in the forest, one can cocoon on death and produce smaller enemies until you destroy it; another can tear up the ground, causing eruptions of resources and spikes that prevent further building there. The more hives you kill, the stronger they become.

Choose your defences

You can fight the inhabitants directly or take a quieter approach, though either way you have to get involved. Web towers trap enemies and slow them down, giving your arrows time to attack. Researching defence can also unlock a cloud of smoke that knocks hives unconscious and kills almost all creatures within a very wide radius.

Increase production

You can speed up the game to 2x or 3x. Agriculture research lets you grow crops that boost structure productivity and help you gather resources faster.