Anthill
Anthill is a gorgeous strategy game with an award-winning interface based on the real-world behavior of ants. By drawing pheromone trails, you direct your ground forces to different destinations, working with…
Anthill is a puzzle developed by Image & Form, released 6 October 2011 on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.
What Anthill is
Anthill is a puzzle game developed by Image & Form and released in 2011. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Anthill is a gorgeous strategy game with an award-winning interface based on the real-world behavior of ants. By drawing pheromone trails, you direct your ground forces to different destinations, working with streams of units rather than individuals. Similar to a tower defense game, your mission is to protect the hill as wave upon wave of enemy bugs are thrown at you.
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Anthill holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Anthill launched on 6 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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