Neat concept. I thought it was going to be very similar to SimAnt but your implementation was very different and more unique. The controls took me a bit at first until I realize you can just hold down space as you move and break ground so that I did not have to go back to set the trail...of course this does mean I might lead them to a dead end but it is a risk I am willing to make ;) Maybe allowing me to use the mouse to break ground would be a nice alternate control scheme where I could potential draw the path I want to break through and just sit back and watch the ant go while I create a trail for the others to follow  :D 

This game is good at the beginning but really slows down once you start travelling further as most of your ants just end up running around randomly and don't get to the end of the trail.

The colony must grow!

Great work, cool to see a simulation game here. Loved the queen animation :D

I got the Factorio reference and I liked how you used the pheromones as some guide for the pathfinding. The queen animation was great too, hillarious actually :). Good job!

Had lots of fun with this one I love sim games so getting the ants to thrive was great and all the pixel art was cute/funny.

Wall breaking, resource gathering, sensual monarch, what else could you ask for? (the combat is gut wrenching)