You get sixty seconds. Then nature takes over.

Dig a nest. Place your queen. Press Start.

That's the last thing you do. Twenty ants take it from there — walking the tunnels you gave them, feeding a queen whose food meter never stops draining. You can't steer them, can't pause, can't dig a shortcut when the route you built turns out to be too long.

When it's over you get a colony report — the exact moment it went wrong. Then you build a better nest.

Gameplay Features

• Fixed Excavation Budget: 100 cells of dirt. Every metre of tunnel is depth you spent somewhere else.
• Zero Post-Start Input: The setup phase is the entire decision space. Once the simulation begins, the interface disappears.
• Depth-Versus-Throughput Tension: A shallow queen eats fast and dies exposed; a deep queen is safe and may starve on travel time alone.
• Deterministic Simulation: A single seeded RNG drives every run, so the same layout always produces the same outcome. Failure is diagnosable, never luck.
• Colony Postmortem Timeline: A timestamped reconstruction of the collapse — first delivery, route failure, cause of death.
• ⚠️ Scheduled Environmental Threats: Flood propagation through connected cells, entrance denial, and surface predation, each testing a different structural decision.

Controls: Mouse only, and only before you press Start.

Made in 48 hours for The Anti-Crunch Game Jam. Theme: Hands-Off.

By  Shrinkit Games