SimAnt
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…
SimAnt is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 31 December 1991 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, DOS and Mac.
What SimAnt is
SimAnt is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 1991. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sim series
SimAnt is the fifth of 64 entries we hold in the Sim series. It arrived 8 months after SimCity. The next entry was SimCity Classic in 1992.
What it launched against
SimAnt launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2 and Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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