SimAnt - The Electronic Ant Colony

by: Maxis Software Inc.

Publication date: 1991

Also For
Amiga, FM Towns, Macintosh, PC-98, Sharp X68000, SNES, Windows 3.x
Developed by
Maxis Software Inc.
Published by
Maxis Software Inc.
Released
Dec 06, 1991

Genre
Simulation
Perspective
Side view, Top-down
Educational
Ecology / Nature
Visual
Isometric

Description

SimAnt explores the detail of the lives of ants, as you take full control of an ant colony. Build up your colony to conquer the other colonies in the yard. Foes include spiders and humans - make their lives a misery by invading their homes. A Quick Game option focuses on battles with other groups of ants, and a full Tutorial mode is provided. Biological detail of real ants is provided, to help make the package more educational.

In the full game the player starts out as the black queen ant who must start an ant hill and produce offspring to start the first colony. They control the output of types of ants between soldiers, workers, and breeders. Soldiers fight the enemy red ants and protect the ant hill, workers maintain the food supply and build out the ant hill, while breeders are used to start more ant colonies in the effort to take over the human’s property.

The player can switch from controlling one ant to another as necessary to do different tasks in the game directly. They can go out on the surface and collect green food dots, call in the troops and take down spiders and caterpillars or invade the red ants’ hill and kill them off. While out on the surface it is important to be careful not to drown in the rain or get killed by the lawn mower.

When there are populations of breeders, they can be dispersed to other sectors of the yard and house within three sectors of the current sector you’re operating from. Once a sector has a black ant hill on it, the player can move over to the newly populated sector and work from there to continue furthering the black ants.

The game is won when the red ants are exterminated from the play field and the human and his cat and dog are driven from their house by the overwhelming ant infestation which has been waged on them.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry

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Addeddate: 2014-12-27 00:09:26

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: simant/SIMANT.EXE

Identifier: msdos_SimAnt_-_The_Electronic_Ant_Colony_1991

Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/simant-the-electronic-ant-colony

Mobygames_also_for: Amiga, FM Towns, Macintosh, PC-98, Sharp X68000, SNES, Windows 3.x

Mobygames_developed_by: Maxis Software Inc.

Mobygames_educational: Ecology / Nature

Mobygames_genre: Simulation

Mobygames_perspective: Side view, Top-down

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Reviewer: hansontrek - - March 6, 2024
Subject: Classic!

One of my childhood favorites! So glad to find it here!

Reviewer: sammyop - - October 18, 2022
Subject: GREAT GAME

This game brings me so many memories. I wish I could have downloaded it from here. It has so much lag playing it in the browser.

Edit: Nevermind, I found it downloadable at other place. Here it is for those who want to play it locally.
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Reviewer: Breno martins - - April 13, 2022
Subject: tradução

gostaria de ter as XLM desse jogo pra traduzir

Reviewer: Kal el Stewart - - January 21, 2022
Subject: the best ant keeping sim #experimental

I love to play this game when i am away from my pet ants and it is satisfying to watch them get food and when the red ants attack i try to help the black ants, and i love the music.

Reviewer: skabardastheuploader - - December 2, 2020
Subject: I cant even progress farther than the tutorial

The game seems really good but for some reason when that tutorial tells you to: "Click on the map" I do that and for some reason, the music stops and it keeps asking me to do that even though I already did.

Reviewer: WalkingTaco - - February 4, 2019
Subject: School is now fun!

Play this in American History everyday.

Reviewer: PTasker - - May 13, 2017
Subject: Best Worldwide Score(Full-Game)?

I Just Made A Score Of 5,285,496!Is It A Record?I Took Every Square Before Game Over!Lucky Me For The Delayed 5 Second Game Over PopUp!

Reviewer: HaarFager872 - - July 22, 2016
Subject: No Download?

It's a shame this game can't be downloaded so that I can play it on my computer and not have to put up with a slow internet connection.

Reviewer: Robbo4473 - - January 11, 2015
Subject: Fun for nostalgia purposes

I remember spending actual hard-earned allowance and paper route money on this game back in the day. I can't remember how much it was but I remember it was A LOT for back then.

It was fun for about 3 hours. I had infested the whole house with ants and beat the game on my first play through.

I was like, 'That's it? I want my money back.'

I was cool and kinda cute but I wanted more! I guess my expectations were really high back then ;)

Oh and there's some educational stuff about ants in there too.

Reviewer: KGrim86 - - January 8, 2015
Subject: LOVE THIS GAME!!!

Old childhood favorite right here. Simple, cute, and really fun. I had some mouse/curser issues when I tried to play it at first, but then I went home and after I full screened it that issue went away. So, I suppose it's a browser issue? Cant wait for other sim games to pop up, like SimSafari and Sim Earth. Weeee :)

Reviewer: Dr.MarioMD - - January 8, 2015
Subject: Played For Hours---Thank You

Reliving some childhood here! The game began getting slow and turning the music of fixed that. But then firefox started running slow and I refreshed the page. The game generally runs choppy and that's how the original ran. If your cursor starts to lag though, do refresh the page and reload the game. The game crashed when I tried to reload a save file. I think this game could use some attention. It's still fun to play!

The hotkeys (such as spamming ALT_2--calling the entire colony to fight) are easily found online. The game is still a lot of fun. I wish it ran smoother. Is it possible to make this game available for download? Right now it says *Stream Only*.

Reviewer: IcejzaDaChilla - - January 8, 2015
Subject: I am sad

I love Simant. I played it when I was five. I was very excited when I saw Simant on here. Due to technical difficulties with the mouse curser I am unable to relive my childhood joy. The game is also available streamed which makes it even worse because I can't download it and play it on DosBox.

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