Powered by Unreal Engine 5, experience immersive adventures and defend your lands through tactical and strategic battles in a microscopic world of epic proportions. Immerse yourself in a new ecosystem in the heart of a French Forest. You play 103 683rd, an ant determined to guide the colony towards new and more prosperous horizons.

In Empire of the Ants, each decision counts, each move is strategic and each conquest reflects your ability to dominate a world where the little ones are mighty.

Players will dive into the universe of the ants to live an epic adventure where they will have to help a colony prosper through tactical and strategical battles, in a microscopic world of epic proportions. Strategy planning, exploration, combat skills, but most of all, setting up local wildlife alliances will be necessary to survive the many challenges awaiting.

Take part in the exodus of a doomed and lost colony.

Publisher Microids and studio Tower Five are proud to unveil a first glimpse of the photorealistic strategy adventure game based on Bernard Werber's book Empire of the Ants.

Key Features:

• Take part in an Epic Adventure - Take the role of a brave ant, with a 3rd person view and explore unique abilities that can help you in battle and exploration
• A 3D Real-Time Strategy game with a progressive difficulty - The game promises an intuitive experience for newcomers, with the presence of tutorials to learn the fundamentals of RTS to help them get used to the game. At the same time, the game will offer a scalable difficulty and adaptable experience for veteran players who will discover new game mechanics as well as advanced strategies and combat skills.
• Explore gorgeous environments and meet the local wildlife - The game will feature a photo-realistic forest to explore. Meet and encounter other ants and forest dwellers through your adventure and interact with them
• Photo-realistic - Unreal Engine 5 allows to push the boundaries of the photo-realistic effect on the plants and wildlife
• Narrative based on the seasons rhythm - The game features a narrative that follows the rhythm of the seasons, the environment and gameplay mechanics will adapt.
• Diversity of contrast and adaptation - The maps in the game will change based on the time of day (day, night, dawn, and twilight)

Bernard Werber's novel has captivated millions of readers with its fascinating universe and its reflections on human nature. Publisher Microids and developer Tower Five are very proud to offer gamers the opportunity to discover this universe from a new perspective, through this video game adaptation. Internationally known for his trilogy Empire of the Ants, The Thanatonauts and more recently The Prophecy of Bees (2021), Bernard Werber has just released his new novel The Diagonal of the Queens.

Empire Of The Ants will be available for PC (Steam) and consoles in 2024.