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Empire of the Ants
Conquer enemy nests and lead your colony through the perils of the forest in this groundbreaking RTS. Empire of the Ants is a photorealistic, third-person real-time strategy game where you command your insect legions in epic battles.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-30 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“There is fun to be had here. Graphically, it's beautiful. The animations are great. The gameplay overall is fun. It's got a pretty good level of tactics and strategy. And, with the amount of time I've had so far, no bugs, glitches, or crashes. Simply, I like the game and I feel…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I like this game, but it's not what I expected. First, the game is total eye candy. I don't know how well it scales down, but on ultra settings in 4k on my 5700X3D + 7900XTX system I get 70-100FPS and it looks *really* good. Like stunning. Impressive for a gamer but a fun…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“I was really excited for this game, and I cannot state how disappointed I was when I actually tried it. The graphics are stunning, but the gameplay is shallow, repetitive, confusing at first and cartoonishly unrealistic. I was initially under the impression that this was an ant…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
🛠️ Achievement fixes
The previous bug affecting achievements, in which some achievements didn’t unlock despite fulfilling all requirements, has been fixed. The following achievements are now fixed: Achievement “Accept vic
🛠️ Balancing Fixes
Reverted back some balancing changes to their pre-Swarm Together Update state in Multiplayer modes (Versus & Co-op): Dor Beetles now receive 5-10% more damage across the board Hornets now receive 10-1
🤝 Time to Unite 🤝 The Swarm Together Update is Now Available
Greetings fellow ants, The time to unite has finally come! The Swarm Together Update is Now Available in Empire of the Ants This free content update brings a lot of new things to the game: 🎮 New Game
☀️ Upcoming Swarm Together Update 5/5 - New Unit & Power 🌪️
Greetings fellow ants, The Swarm Together update will bring new options to fight in all the different modes, except for the Story Mode. These options are: a new support unit and a new power . (Yes, we
☀️ Upcoming Swarm Together Update 4/5 - Challenge Mode ⏲️
Greetings fellow ants, Whether you're a hardcore gamer or someone who just doesn’t want to go into PvP but would like a bigger challenge, we have designed the new Challenge Mode for you! This mode wil
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Narration · RTS · Real Time Tactics · PvE · PvP · Nature · Multiplayer · Sci-fi · Grand Strategy · Singleplayer · Realistic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 41 |
| Official site | https://www.microids.com/empire-of-the-ants/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i5 9400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 6GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 40 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD recommended