Idle Ants - Simulator Game

If you think you’d like a game where you sit around and watch ants slowly eat, you will love this game. It’s incredibly idle for an idle game, especially at first, but there is something immensely satisfying about the process of watching the ants eat and take food back to their anthill. The simplistic graphics are nice, and the different worlds break up the monotony. The ads are given after eating an object, but can easily be avoided with airplane mode, and eating objects early on in worlds take enough time that even without it on it wouldn’t be that annoying (although later on it might get annoying without airplane mode). My only large critique in it is the gems and buildings and fights. It does add something to do, and some sense of strategy- how long do you hang around worlds to collect resources verses pressing on? But… there is an element of RNG to it that’s really frustrating sometimes. You’ll sit there needing 10 gens for a new fighter, and you’ll sit there for either 2 minutes or 20 based on your luck. Building materials work the same- I had like 50 of one material, and 0 of the other at some point. It takes away from the chill vibes this game otherwise has. That being said, it’s a pretty small complaint overall. From what I have seen, this game is immensely satisfying, if not the most involved. Just play in airplane mode, and stick out those first few slow levels.

First off, this game overall is great. The textures are great. Its super satisfying to see my little army eat boats or fridges or something like that. I love the different kinds of ants you can unlock and the army ants. Very creative. Very demure. Very mindful. Second, I hate gems. Why do you overprice EVERYTHING? It’s either you grind or pay money. I tried to grind. I saved up 40 gems but when I attempted to buy five eggs, I got soldiers, and more soldiers, and one peasant ant. That got my strength only up by like 100. I was 80 points away from beating the boss. Those ants that are super cute that you can unlock for your team? Overpriced. One little flash ant, 30 gems. That one I get. But over 60 for the second upgrade? NO. Third of all, WHY SO MANY FREAKING ADS? THERE ARE MORE ADS THAN GAMEPLAY. Done eating? How about 3x your money? If you click no you will still get an ad. If I wanted to watch ads, I would want to play this game. But guess what? I don’t want to. Forth of all, this game repeats itself. Unlocked a new world? Do the same thing over again and again until you have enough gems to buy useless ants. Would a bonus fun level be so hard to add? Maybe you can become an ant in a bonus level. If you fix this and DON’T JUST REPOND LIKE sorry for your problems, AND READ THE WHOLE THING THEN UPDATE YOUR GAME, I will give 5 stars.

It’s extremely satisfying to watch the ants work as you progress through the game, there are even awesome looking special ants that you can get for just $9.99 as a bundle, but only if it pops up, the bundle is not in the shop, but you will be able to get these ants with or without the bundle. Just download the game and give it a whirl, if you don’t like it, then duh-delete it. But if you do end up enjoying it, I hope you’re having as much, maybe even more fun than I am. Anyway, this next bit is for the developers: A button to switch from current upgrade progress to starting progress (something like that, as long as the upgrades reset.) would be a great addition for the game, it would give players different ways to play and make it extremely satisfying to only have a single ant have maximum strength and watch it work. And a button to activate/deactivate the special ants would be a nice feature too, the game would then be absolutely perfect from there as more worlds are added to it in the future. I’d even pay $2.99 or SLIGHTLY more to actually get to use those features if they were added to the game. And no, that wasn’t a bribe, at least it wasn’t intended to be. I mean, if I’m going to spend money on something I might as well enjoy it, and if I get the chance to help make it better, then I (try) to make myself heard. Thanks for reading and have a G’day and a G’night.