IGN has shared a new in-engine trailer for the Unreal Engine 5-powered Empire of the Ants, which appears to pack incredible visuals. Developed by Tower Five, Empire of the Ants promises to offer mindblowing graphics that will impress players.
In Empire of the Ants, you’ll strategize your way to ruling the world. It’s all about making smart moves to keep your colony alive. You’ll explore, fight, and even team up with other critters to thrive and become the ultimate ant empire.
The game aims to offer a real-time strategic experience closely inspired by the book series. Players will dive into a microscopic world and use your strategic skills to help their colony thrive in real-time. The concept certainly sounds cool. Whether the game will be as good remains to be seen. Still, I’m quite interested in it.
Empire of the Ants will have a photorealistic forest where players will meet and interact with other ants and forest dwellers. The game will also have day and night environments. The developers claimed that there will be day, night, dawn, and twilight TODs. My guess is that we’re looking at a real-time day-night cycle. We can also assume that the game will take advantage of Lumen.
Truth be told, this trailer looks amazing. Tower Five is a small team, so it’s quite impressive what they’ve managed to create with UE5. So, kudos to them for showing one of the best examples of what UE5 can deliver.
From what we know, Microids plans to release this game in 2024. However, we don’t have any specific ETA on when it will come out. Plus, the publisher hasn’t shared the game’s PC system requirements. So, we are most likely looking at a Q3 or Q4 2024 release date.
Enjoy the trailer and stay tuned for more!
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