Ants
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Ants is a simple freeware card-based strategy game in which you must raze the enemy anthill using offensive and defensive cards drawn randomly from the deck. Each ant colony has the resources bricks, weapons, and crystals, and each card draws a certain amount from your resource pool as you put in into play. The goal is to build your anthill to a height of 100, or raze your enemy hill to the ground.
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Average score: 80% (based on 1 ratings)
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Average score: 3.4 out of 5 (based on 5 ratings with 1 reviews)
A catchy little time killer...
The Good
Ants, much like Minesweeper, Solitaire, and small pinball games, is just a good way to whittle away a few spare minutes here and there. It doesn't contain hours of gameplay, a gripping storyline, or hardcore action - it's just a few minutes of fun! The kind of game you'd play while waiting for a phone call, or your pizza to arrive. =)
The Bad
The games can sometimes be a little one-sided - sometimes it feels like one player keeps drawing all the most powerful cards while the other player just draws dead wood. And be careful with the game option that allows you to remove the 100 castle height victory condition and keep playing until one castle is razed - it's a good way to accidentally spend two hours playing a game which isn't really worth more than 15 minutes of gameplay at a time at best.
The Bottom Line
It's freeware, and you get what you pay for. If you're bored, and have a spare one megabyte on your hard drive, download it and play it once or twice. Heck, it beats another game of Solitaire!
Windows · by Vaelor (400) · 2004
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This freeware game was made entirely by one man using a game development tool called PETER, which, like the popular Adventure Game Studio and similar toolkits, allows individuals with little or no programming experience to make their own simple games.
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The freeware game Ants is available for download from the website of GemTree, the game's distributor.
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Game added by Vaelor.
Additional contributors: Patrick Bregger.
Game added September 4, 2004. Last modified August 17, 2023.