Ants

Ants begins with workers gathering forage and returning it to drop-off structures, then opens into a full colony economy. Build farms, chambers, workshops, silos, depots and defensive towers; manage storage and production queues; capture territory; and choose linked biological and steampunk research paths before committing resources.

The eight fixed-seed campaign missions vary the objective rather than repeating one elimination match. Hold territory, build a stockpile, survive and cull hostile wildlife, or destroy a developed rival across seven grounds. Each mission carries its own briefing, starting economy, available technology, map, biome and wildlife cadence, with progress stored locally.

The 3D roster covers gatherers, scouts, melee troops, chemical specialists, gunners, bombardiers, flame troops, commandos, medics and mortar teams, alongside harvesters, transports, tanks, artillery, APCs and air units. Cover, knockback, destructible props, lethal water, living resource fields, deformable terrain and persistent blast craters make positioning part of the fight.

Skirmish mode lets one player fight AI with selectable difficulty, battlefield size and ground. Nearby multiplayer is an encrypted one-on-one local-network match: both Macs build the same deterministic world, exchange versioned commands and wait on matching lock-step ticks instead of silently drifting out of sync.