Greetings!
Beneath the Clover: Hidden Kingdoms is a real-time ant colony simulation inspired by classic games such as SimAnt. It combines autonomous colony management, direct ant control, territorial warfare, action combat, RPG progression, and exploration above and below the garden.
Game page: https://treyz81.itch.io/beneath-the-clover
You are one ant. The colony is your body.
Directly control a black ant as you forage, dig tunnels, tend brood, collect aphids, lay pheromone trails, develop your abilities, and lead your nestmates against a rival red colony.
You are not an invisible ruler looking down from above. You live inside the colony as one of its ants. If your body is destroyed, the nest can provide another while preserving your experience and equipment.
The red colony is building at the same time. Its workers forage, its queen produces brood, and its soldiers defend their territory. Red warbands can attack your queen, steal food, or carry eggs out of your nursery.
The rest of the garden is just as dangerous.
🐜 Build a living colony Workers forage, dig, haul resources, and care for brood independently. You can also disable automatic digging and shape every tunnel yourself.
🌿 Explore four battlefields Fight across the Clover Patch, White Clover, Mossy Verge, and Long Grass. Each map has its own terrain, vegetation, obstacles, and atmosphere.
⚔ Fight and develop your ant Rise through 25 levels while improving health, damage, armor, speed, stamina, critical strikes, healing, and carrying capacity. Combat damage varies slightly with every hit.
💎 Discover rare equipment Defeated enemies can leave common, rare, epic, or legendary spoils. Equipment can improve your statistics or grant abilities such as acid attacks, reflected damage, charged trap-jaw strikes, healing effects, and an emergency molt.
🕷 Survive a hostile garden Face spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, the Roach Lord, severe weather, flooding, lawnmowers, and human footsteps. Not every threat can be defeated by one ant.
🔥 Find the World Heart Dig beyond the fungus chambers to discover a hidden crystal buried in the deepest part of the nest. Recovering it strengthens the entire colony for the rest of the map.
🌱 Five game modes
- Quick Game: Choose a map, build your colony, and destroy the red queen.
- Full Campaign: Conquer the property tile by tile as you advance from the clover toward the porch and kitchen.
- Siege: Prepare your defenses before recurring red warbands begin their assault.
- Drought: Secure enough survival plans through harvesting, stockpiling, colony growth, or war.
- Survive: Endure eight full days against escalating raids and garden threats.
🏆 Current features
- Five game modes
- Four selectable maps
- Four difficulty settings
- Autonomous black and red colonies
- Pheromone-based colony commands
- Movable food, brood, aphids, and pebbles
- Branching colony evolution
- RPG levels and equipment
- Dynamic weather and underground flooding
- Bosses, raids, wildlife, and human hazards
- Saving, high scores, and detailed run history
- Keyboard, mouse, and mobile touch controls
- Portrait and landscape mobile layouts
Beneath the Clover: Hidden Kingdoms is currently free to play in your browser while development continues. It is fully playable, but the Full Campaign and several planned features are still being expanded and refined. Once development is complete, the game will become a paid release.
If you enjoy ant colony simulations, autonomous strategy games, RPG progression, or watching two tiny kingdoms wage a surprisingly serious war, I hope you will give it a try.
Bug reports, balance feedback, and ideas are very welcome. I would especially love to hear which map and mode you played, how long your colony survived, and what finally brought it down.
Thank you for checking it out.
The red colony is already digging. Wake yours.