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SimAnt

First release
1991
Publisher
Maxis
Genres
Simulator, Strategy · Educational

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 chemical death of inescticides In Experimental Games, you are a human playing and experimenting with ants. Your tools let you build walls and barriers to run ants through mazes, add food, add ants, dig of fill in holes, test ants' reactions to various trail marking and alarm chemicals, and play with insecticide.

Also known as SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony, Sim Ant: The Electronic Ant Colony

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Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
1991
DOS
1991
Mac
1991
All 5 release dates
Amiga
1992
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1993
Age ratings
ESRB E
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Side view, Bird view / Isometric
Keywords
life simulation, ants, world domination, management, war
… All 16, dog, rivaling factions, cat, human, resource gathering, theft, realism, random encounter, colony, insect infestation, snes mouse support

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