Empires of the Undergrowth

FOR THE COLONY!!! P.S. Very flavorful and unqiue RTS with interesting combat and awesome mechanics for each ant species

I love this game so much. It hits my nature nerd buttons (I actually learned some things!), each type of ant offers dramatically different gameplay, and the story is silly and fun. Absolutely solid RTS that can be as relaxing or as brutal as you'd like. Additional challenges and modes add a ton of replay value. I love this game SO MUCH! But my roommate *is* getting tired of listening to "Vincent Price" narrate my games. XD

Fun spin on RTS, first game since Starcraft II I've been motivated to collect all the achievements for; most require you to play the level in a specific manner that adds a whole new level of challenge.

Challenging colony sim game with ants, cool bugs and various mechanics based on different ant species. Very great story mode, my mind was blown by the final mission.

Fantastic game, I've been playing this game since 2017 and it's been my first ever Steam game. I love this game thank you so much devs for this game I love ants and RTS so this is perfect. Hope to see this game grow and thrive! Suggestion add more content even in the form of DLC's I'm happy to support this game!

The Graphics in this game are so realistic and artistic. Love the maps and landscape. My only complaint is there is no multiplayer. This is my favorite game ever and highly recommend for anyone who has played other strategy games like Age Of Empires.

Gameplay is fun but the lack of a save function in the middle of missions makes this a very very frustrating game to lose. Most missions take 45+ minutes and if you lose at the end, the entire 45 minutes is gone. No checkpoints, no way to save your progress, no way to take a break and come back later. I want to like this game so badly, but it's so frustrating I have to uninstall it for now.

I find this game very fun to get rid off my sadness i played many hours on it its my favorite ant game to ever exist i hope you guys continue updating the game ❤️

I really like this game butttt ive finished this game like 3 times but every time i come back after a few months and it makes me restart like 3 level which for me takes about 3 hours each level but other than that amazing very fun.

Very good indie RTS about ants. Brilliant level design, cool custom games, and an excruciatingly painful max difficulty setting. BEST OST EVER. The theming and composition of the entire ost is just brilliant. It's pretty old so development has been slow but sped up the past few years; its a small studio so that's understandable.

Such a uniquely interesting game, great performance and great graphics. Would recommend

Honestly, I've been looking for this kind of game since I was 12 or so. Loved the ending too. If you like ants and building up a colony...

Excellent game. One of the most original strategy games in the last few years. Thank you for the fun.

I love this game and highly recommend it. Very much a strategy game but the way it is laid out makes it relaxing and super satisfying, More updates would be amazing, and continuing the story would be really nice.

ant eat, ant grow, ant follow scent, ant collect, ant good, ant attac other ant, ant win, ant evolve, ant peak is real

this game is the best game i have on steam i love ants and this game makes it come true just add muit player

so i got to the leafcutter colony. had to leave so saved and left the game. onlt to boot up in the first area with the blue ants. no enemies no food just a barren map. game breaking bug this.

amazing game, totally recommend it to people who enjoy longer-style games with a lot of strategy. can be quite hard though

Fantastic game made by a small but incredibly dedicated and transparent dev team.

I've only played the game briefly, but I'm already having a lot of fun. It looks and plays great, especially, once you get the hang of using the pheromone system, and how to construct your rooms/squads of ants to maximize the upgrading mechanics. My one request: a time management system. Something like the option to pause, or to slow game play, exists in many RTS games. It would likely open the game up to more fans of TBS games, while still retaining the appeal of the non-stop action crowd.

by far the best game ive played in a long time, always entertaining and is never the exact same each time you load a free play level.

Game is fun, but the level scaling on some of the missions is a bit silly. Went from 3 frogs to 8 frogs in one night while clearing the map. Maybe it was a hard fail state but the bullfrog boss was still below 1/4 health, so maybe I'm just unlucky.

Games great. You live single player rts this is a ez pickup

Cute cozy game that can provide both an elaborated screensaver and a strategic challenge god i love them ants T^T

a great game did wish they added more end game stuff but still great its good for new rts players and expirenced gsmers would recomend

Well, after finally getting around to completing the entire game after its full release a bit ago, I have to say I highly, HIGHLY, recommend this. I grew up during the golden age of RTS when everyone and everybody was making them, not just the big names, and there are plenty of games from that era and today that I feel still capture that vibe of just, a straight-up fun, classic RTS. Not objective masterpieces by any stretch, but a game you know you can always come back to, play through the campaign, do some skirmishes, and do it all again a few months or even years later because its just an enjoyable time. I feel pretty confident to say I'll be playing this game a bunch more as time goes on, especially since I've already been doing that since I got this game near the start of its early access launch lol The higher difficulties are legitimately difficult, with challenges and achievements I'm never attempting purely for my own sanity. After doing the majority of the game on Extreme, I already lost a lot of it. The story is just *fun*, not Mozart level by any means but its short and sweet with a legitimately satisfying finale after everything that happens in it. Not to mention the documentary missions (the bulk of the game) somehow capturing the feeling of the indomitable human spirit against all odds but with ants and the Narrator is a key part of that. The sound design isn't anything super special but it works, not a whole lot you can do with ants and insects and a few amphibians here so I never went in expecting much here. The music though is pretty decent, with a couple of standouts I wanted to look up for later listening but overall its mostly stuff that really just does well at blending in with the game and feeling well... natural? Which I think is a plus for a game that is pretty obviously very heavy on nature so it works. and of course the unit and enemy designs are just fantastic. I never want to see an actual whip spider in my life and i legitimately kinda felt bad seeing a rival colonies queen just dead in her nest. (Why did you have to give it a spotlight devs? I wanted the achievement for doing it you dont have to make me want to cry). And of course your own little ants are just cute, and honestly somehow make me attached to them like I am with something like Pikmin. So, once again. I highly recommend this game. I don't really have any major complaints. Some minor nitpicks, mainly about unit response times at higher pops but that can be mitigated by playing smarter and not having a single giant nest of 100 ants and instead 4 different nests with 25 ants each, and it also is only really a detriment at higher difficult levels, where you kinda *want* to be doing that anyway.

I love this game, got to know it by chance by a Youtuber I admire, and then I started playing it. Really recommended game!

I absolutely love this game! I've put well over 100 hours into it at this point. The levels are very well made and the information is surprisingly accurate and well- researched. The environments have creatures that are native to them and work really well mechanically. However, if you have arachnophobia, I would not recommend this because the models are very realistic. even the arachnaphobe mode does not do much to change them. The centipede in the first matabele level is also really really well rendered and gives me the chills watching it move.

One of the only games that really scratches that itch of building a colony. Base building mechanics are satisfying, missions have a really nice variety, and the narration is super immersive. In its current state it already way worth its price tag, but this game has an insane amount of potential with its unique design and passionate devs. Support them so we can see more game modes! Would love to see a large scale endless mode, more campaign missions, and even more unit variety!

This game is so fun im an ant nerd so thats one reason but there is so many fun levels and strateys to employ

Love this game I have over 400 hours on this game which you might look I don't have, but it's my new own account which my brother owns the actual account with 400 hours their name is Leviz on steam. This game I played more than chivalry II because it's exploratory with a lot of levels ant missions.

Its super fun if you love nature and wildlife. it gives a feeling of how it would be to be the queen in a colony. great graphics and love the music

empires of the undergrowth is an amazing game full of strategy id recommend it to anyone it has so many levels and its a decent difficulty

You lack complete control of your units unlike in traditional RTS. You place them in groups which have orders to do things like "go there" "pick up food" "ignore enemies" and there is a delay when changing orders and they pick their own paths. If you've played a colony sim before it is a lot like that. Egg clusters are all bunched together when assigning them to groups so if you want to split your forces you need to plan ahead or have two ant types. My biggest gripe is you only have five groups. Second biggest is we need multiplayer and we need it soon. There's some balancing issues I forsee but that's fine. In fact, I'd almost rather you not balance it. I am fine with some ant species being outright superior to others. Third would probably be that some enemies should be consumable and aren't. Ants will eat each other's larvae but not other adult ants, sure. Even something like the painful food limitations like the matabele with anything that isn't a termite would be nice. Fourth is how much the narrator repeats himself in some of the challenge modes. It is good when he alerts you to mole crickets and parasitic flies in case you weren't paying attention, but the tiger beetle larvae and to a less extent the assassin bugs I found extremely grating. "Another matabele ant has been assassinated!" X294 Yes. I know. They're on the path to the food I want, these loses are acceptable. That one is very repetitive, but the tiger larvae one gets mixed up and he starts being a bit of a smart ass which made me want to choke him a little. Maybe a two to five minute cool down on these two so I don't have him constantly chiming in my ear would make it less irritating. Storywise the formicarium challenges are pretty silly. It starts pretty grounded in lab where your ants are genetically modified organisms, but in the later half takes that premise to absurd but fun (and funny) heights. I started to suspect a political agenda would pop up but I honestly don't think so. Both scientists are antagonists, the man is just a sadist with a godcomplex but secretly wants you to succeed to the point that he'll start shouting for you like a sports team and the woman is clinical and professional, ultimately she always planned to kill the colony once the experiment ran its course making the megalomaniac your only hope of survival. After my trepidation died down I really enjoyed it. The missions on the other hand play out like a wildlife documentary and are fairly grounded. I especially like them, it feels like watching National Geographic and is very cozy- and the music in this? Some of the best. I've actually added the army ant theme to my playlist.

Great game and at a great price!! Really good to kill the time. Entertaining and challenging (if you want)

I enjoyed the game very much. After some time I return to the story and play it on harder difficulty levels. I'd like to play some more content for the game.

Absolutely amazing game. Voiced like a documentary, with a bit of comedy with a crazy scientist, and a variety of crazy scenarios that reminds you of classic shenanigans from old school RTSs but it's all real nature and environment stuff. It's educational AND fun.

Holds true to others reviews. Okay first time around. That's about it. Meta colonies kinda break that game. Also charging for new colonies is pretty wild. Game description is deceiving. More like a puzzle game with slight RTS elements.

its fun. no arachnophobia safe mode but what is there to expect in a game about bugs

Game is fun from the first minute, but lacks the basic funktions of 'Save Game' and 'Load Game'

It was kind of fun the first time, but the gameplay and controls are the least intuitive of any RTS game I have every played. I've tried to get back into it a few times, but relearning the controls is too frustrating.

Had issues with difficultly issues and lack of replayability at the moment.

One of my favorite rts' ever produced. im looking forward to bonus levels and sequels.

Very good for people who like Ants/Colony Sims. The different kind of ants you get through upgrading are really cool. I just wish there was a suspend save option during missions. There isn;t so you have too plan out your time or complete the mission in one sitting.

Really fun game addicting in story mode everyone should check that out :D

this game is good but one thing if you don't like bugs do not play and if you do like bugs then play

Make it Multiplayer, begging y'all, please.

this game was really good but i wish they add multiplayer

it is a very fun game u will need a strat 2 beat any level though would recommend strongly

"Behold the beautiful matabele ant" Me: =) "This queen however has made a huge mistake that may cost her the colony" Me: =( A beautiful RTS that is both fun and informative. Great difficulty options, great side challenges, and a wonderful narrator that tells you just how bad things are going to get.