SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony

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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.

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Alternate Titles

• "SimAnt: Die Trick-Kolonie" -- German title
• "シムアント" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Insects
• Genre: Simulation - Animal life / Biological
• Maxis Sim series

User Reviews

Sure beats having an ant farm	Windows 3.x	Maw (845)
Fun the first time around...	DOS	Stephen M (24)
Simant is as addictive as it is educational.	DOS	kbmb (399)
More fun than your first ant farm.	DOS	gametrader (229)

Critic Reviews

Amiga Joker	Amiga	Mar, 1992	85 out of 100	85
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Feb, 1992	10 out of 12	83
Play Time	SNES	Aug, 1993	75 out of 100	75
Total! (Germany)	SNES	Dec, 1993	2.25 out of 6	75
Amiga Format	Amiga	Jul, 1992	73 out of 100	73
Play Time	DOS	Apr, 1992	72 out of 100	72
All Game Guide	DOS	1998		70
All Game Guide	Macintosh	1998		70
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Amiga	Jun, 1992	8 out of 12	67
Amiga Power	Amiga	Jun, 1992	59 out of 100	59

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
The Queen	2	Indra is stressed (19921) Apr 09, 2009

Trivia

The manual for the DOS version of the game, asides from having the instructions to play, also served as a mini-encyclopedia on ants, with 86 pages dedicated to the topic alone!