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Jonathan Bolding

INSANE: Empire of the ants review | Vintage Vibes

Empire of the Ants screenshot.

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What is it? Photorealistic third-person ant-vs-ant RTS
Expect to pay: $40/£35
Developer: Tower Fire
Publisher: Microids
Reviewed on: Radeon RX 6800 XT, Ryzen 9 5900, 32GB RAM
Multiplayer? Online 1v1 and free-for-all PvP
Link: Steam

Zooming in on tiny things and imagining what life is like for them: it never gets old. Like 2016 platformer Unravel and Obsidian survival game Grounded, new RTS Empire of the Ants plops us into the world of macro photography. It does a great job of showing us the world from an ant's perspective, where pebbles are boulders and a beetle is an elephant, but you've really got to love that feeling for it to work, because as an RTS campaign, it's not great.

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