Microids has shared the first in-engine trailer for its upcoming Unreal Engine 5-powered RTS, Empire of the Ants. In this game, players will dive into the universe of the ants to live an epic adventure where they will have to help a colony prosper through tactical and strategical battles, in a microscopic world of epic proportions.
Developed by Tower Five, the game will focus on exploration, strategy planning, combat skills, and setting up local wildlife alliances.
Microids plans to release Empire of the Ants in 2024, and below you can find its key features.
Empire of the Ants Key Features
- Take part to an Epic Adventure: Endorse the role of a brave ant, with a 3rd person view and explore unique abilities that can help you in battle and exploration.
- A 3D Real-Time Strategic game with progressive difficulty: The game promises an intuitive experience for newcomers, with the presence of tutorials to learn the fundamentals of RTS. The game will also offer a scalable difficulty and adaptable experience for veteran players who will discover new game mechanics as well as advanced strategies and combat skills.
- Explore gorgeous environments and meet the local wildlife: The game will feature a photo-realistic forest to explore. Meet, encounter and interact with other ants as well as forest dwellers through your adventure.
- Photo-realistic: Unreal Engine 5 allows to push the boundaries of the photo-realistic effect on the plants and wildlife.
- Narrative based on the seasons rhythm: The game features a narrative that follows the rhythm of the seasons, to which environments and gameplay mechanics will adapt.
- Diversity of contrast and adaptation: The game maps will evolve depending on the time of day (day, night, dawn, and twilight).
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
Now this looks beautiful & interesting. Reminds me of Spore, where you evolve and survive while exploring. Wonder how they’ll implement engaging gameplay though. Will be looking forward to it.
24 years later and it looks really good.
I hate ants. they are the destructive rats of any garden. only a sheltered, downtown Los Angeles developer (who never owned a garden or even met ants) would think that they are cute and worthy of a game.
They’re not supposed to be cute, they’re supposed to be organized and warlike.
That’s the whole point of this game.
And I’d still rather ants and than cockroaches.
I can assure you that the devs were like “OMG look they are like little soldiers so organized haha so cute” the whole time during development
Ants play a crucial role on our planet. They are populous in number and essential for soil aeration, fertilization, and ecological balance. Ants are also a vital food source for other creatures. They also help control the population of more harmful insects . The extinction of ants would cause catastrophic damage to our ecosystem.
Ants destroy orchards by filling the fresh leaves with aphids. they live a symbiotic life. aphids produce nectar in exchange for protection. therefore ants spread them everywhere they can. they ruin your lawn by creating hives, erode the soil with their enormous colonies, they break into your home and destroy your food, force you to spend a tonne on chemicals to get rid of them. they are not essential at all, only like 3 animals feed on them, and they all live in rainforests or in africa. the world would be a better place without ants.
“they ruin your lawn”
LOL
It’s technically THEIR lawn, since they were already there when you moved. And dude, you talk a lot of shït. Go get yourself educated.
Microids is one of the few developers left that releases fully finished, bug-free games.
I never have issues with their games, not on PC, not on consoles.
Syberia 3 probably being the sole exception of a game that didn’t live up to my expectations.
Syberia 1 and 2 are excellent, the Agatha Christie series is excellent too.
Some of Microids’ games are for a younger audience, like the My Universe series, but I had way more fun with them than many games from “AAA” developers that are riddled with technical problems.
Syberia 3 was a letdown for most gamers but Syberia 1 and 2 are must plays for anyone that likes point and click adventure games with really good stories. The games are around 20 years old but I still highly recommend them both.
btw for anyone interested they can be had for 75% off on GOG right now.
Expect a lot of bugs in this game.
badumtssssss 🤣
Damn, that looks great.
I hope it plays well too.
looks gorgous! almost live like. Thats the only thing i love the Unreal Engine 5 : its graphics
what on earth is that mantis doing? it is behaving like a a trex from jurassic park lol, not like a real one
It’s not meant to be accurate, it’s just a tech demo.
And don’t expect diversity hires to know how insects work.
We’re reaching tech demo levels often thought to be impossible!