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Hive
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Hive, the game itself, is fun and well thought out. The software is good too but I've only been using offline mode because I'm a beginner.”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“So I am pretty ass at this game admittedly however it is extremely enjoyable and has a unique and fast paced strategy about it.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:53 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Lost Cities Kickstarter Launched!
Hey there, Hive Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we started with Hiv
Lost Cities Kickstarter Launched!
Hey there, Hive Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we started with Hiv
Online bug fixed! (still on sale)
Sorry about that. It turns out the issue is that some database upgrades - that we made in the last few days - had decided that "\" was not a safe character. So any time we were trying to place a piece
Online bug fixed! (still on sale)
Sorry about that. It turns out the issue is that some database upgrades - that we made in the last few days - had decided that "\" was not a safe character. So any time we were trying to place a piece
Online bug (during a sale... ick!)
UPDATE: Fixed ! So, Hive is on sale which is good because more players (yay!) but it seems like we created a bug somehow, in the last few days. Really not sure what we could have changed that's relate
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Asynchronous Multiplayer · Turn-Based Strategy · Hex Grid · Board Game · Strategy · Tabletop · Abstract · Multiplayer · Singleplayer · Turn-Based · Local Multiplayer · Family Friendly (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Stats · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, Polish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 51 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://bluelinegamestudios.com/hive/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP or better Processor: 1 gHz Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+ w/ GL_ARB_framebuffer_object Storage: 300 MB available space