About Would You Like to See My Ants?: A Slow, Growing Ant Colony
Would You Like to See My Ants? begins with a parcel in the mail — inside, a colony of ants and a note asking you to please be nice to them. Unpack the parcel, carry the queen into her chamber, and the nest is yours to tend. The view is side-on, like a real ant farm, so every tunnel and chamber is visible as the colony expands beneath the surface.
It's a slow, deliberate game. The ants keep working while you're away, and a short report waits on your return summarising what they got up to. Letters arrive from the ants' previous keeper and her neighbors, bringing projects to build, trips outside the glass, and the occasional visitor. Research can be unlocked, milestones reached, and a scrapbook holds photos of the colony's progress. Progress saves automatically, so the nest is always waiting where you left it.
How to Play Would You Like to See My Ants?: Dig, Build, and Keep the Colony Fed
Starting from a single queen, the goal is to grow the colony by digging tunnels, constructing chambers, and keeping the ants fed. Mark seeds and springtails for the foragers to collect, then dig tunnels and build nurseries, pantries, and gardens as the population expands. Every ant has a job, and any individual can be followed around the nest or picked up and placed somewhere else.
Controls
- Left-click: Select things and use tools
- Scroll wheel: Zoom in and out
- Drag on empty ground: Look around the nest
- WASD / Arrow keys: Look around the nest
- Right-click: Put down the tool you're holding
- T: Dig tunnels
- B: Open the build menu
- X: Cancel an order
- L: Fill a hole back in
- Space: Pause
- Menu button (top right): Open the menu
- Tap a tool, then tap a location: Use a tool on touch devices
- Confirm tap: Confirm a tool action on touch
- Drag: Look around on touch
- Pinch: Zoom on touch
- Hold finger on an ant: Pick her up on touch
Games You Might Like
If the idle, colony-building pace of Would You Like to See My Ants? appeals to you, simulation games on Playgama cover a wide range of management and growth experiences worth exploring. For something equally cozy with creatures to raise, Grow Slime puts you in charge of a farm where unusual slimes hatch, grow through stages, and produce drops to sell and reinvest. Hedgies follows a hedgehog transforming an abandoned plot into a flourishing farm, with a warm and busy atmosphere that shares the same cozy management spirit. My Perfect Farm: Idle Tycoon lets you plant crops, care for animals, and build up a farm at a relaxed idle pace, much like tending a colony between sessions. More creature-focused titles are gathered in the animals games category, a good place to find other games centered on caring for living things.