
You must test your skill against a combination of previous challenges.Ĭhallenge mode introduces new enemies, which mostly act as obstacles, to a previously beaten mission. Cold Blood/ A Bridge Too Far: You play as fire ants in Green Swamp Preserve, USA.
You must engage in territorial disputes against other ant colonies.
The Harvest/ Front Line: You play as leafcutter ants in a Ecuadorian rainforest. You must defeat the creatures running from the rising tide. Rising Tide/ Queen of the Hill: You play as wood ants on a French beach. You must manage the limited resources and grow your colony. New Home/ Subjugation: You play as black ants in a European forest. Beating these mission doesn't progress the main story. The formicarium customizations are not applied to these missions. The missions are narrated in documentary style. On hard and insane, usual enemies are replaced with adult or larger variants and their number increases.Įach set of missions introduces to you new ant species in their natural habitats and new aspects of gameplay. On easy, health of all enemies is halved. Medium is the intended difficulty for first playthrough. Currently, the cap is 100/ 125/ 150/ 175 before each respective formicarium challenge. It increases each time a new formicarium challenge becomes available. You cannot build more brood tiles when you reach the limit. Food is dropped on the surface as seeds, woodworms or woodlice.Ī hard population cap, which is based on your number of brood tiles, is set in the formicarium. You can use each territory point to dig 1 tile in the formicarium. You can use Royal Jelly to customize your gene-thief ant colony. Rewards that you earn can only be used in the formicarium.
You must choose a resource to receive a bonus amount immediately after you have beaten a story mission. Hovering your cursor over each hexagon symbol will show you details about the respective mission.īeating a story mission gives you set amount of resources, depending on difficulty. When you are in the formicarium, click the ant symbol in the top left corner of the screen to open the mission menu. In the main story, a gene-thief ant colony must establish itself in a formicarium and survive a multitude of challenges that the scientists create.