SimAnt

Released1991

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mac
DOS
Amiga

About

SimAnt is a simulation strategy game which makes you a head of ant colony. There are 3 ways to play SimAnt: Quick Games, Full Games, and Experimental games. In Quick Games you are a black ant colony competing with a red ant colony for food and territory. Your goal is to defeat the red ants and take over your home turf - the local patch of ground in the backyard. Your task will be complicated by marauding spiders, voracious ant lions, torrential rains, crusing human feet and merciless lawn mowers. In Full Games you must take over the entire backyard section by section. Then take over the house and drive out the humans. In addition to hordes of red ants and other pests, you will face the chemical death of inescticides In Experimental Games, you are a human playing and experimenting with ants. Your tools let you build walls and barriers to run ants through mazes, add food, add ants, dig of fill in holes, test ants' reactions to various trail marking and alarm chemicals, and play with insecticide.

Developer: Maxis
Publisher: Maxis
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Themes: Educational
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric, Side view
Age ratings: ESRB E
IGDB rating: 68 / 100 (30 ratings)
Also known as: SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony, Sim Ant: The Electronic Ant Colony