Build a thriving anthill, explore the garden beyond, and mark your territory with powerful pheromones. Gather food and leaves, battle rival creatures, and nurture your colony by laying eggs and caring for larvae to unlock specialized workers. Evolve your abilities, optimize the chambers of your nest, and accomplish remarkable feats as you fight to claim dominance over competing ant colonies.

ANTS is a deeply strategic, highly interactive experience that blends area control, personal board development, and over 150 unique cards to create an endless variety of satisfying combos. In a very small world, can you lead your colony to greatness?

Gameplay Overview
ANTS is a richly thematic strategy game from Capstone Games that puts players in command of a competing ant colony, fighting for dominance over a shared garden landscape. The personal board development layer has each player building out their anthill chamber by chamber — optimizing their nest to unlock specialized ant workers who enable more powerful actions and combos. Area control plays out on the shared garden board, where pheromone trails mark territory and foraging expeditions gather the food and leaves needed to fuel your colony's growth. The heart of the game's variety is its 150+ unique cards, which create endless combinations of abilities and synergies across plays. Caring for larvae, evolving abilities, and accomplishing colony-wide feats round out a deeply layered experience that rewards planning and adaptation in equal measure. A standout entry in Capstone's catalog for fans of thematic strategy games with meaningful engine-building.