A pixel shooter set on the real Argentine ant border war north of San Diego. Pick a supercolony, pick a caste, and hold the sugar.
Hold more of the three objectives than the enemy to drain their reinforcements. The colony that runs out first loses the front.
Your cursor is free. Choose Return to game to play.
Deploy starts immediately in a dedicated game view. Move the mouse to aim, or use the arrow keys. Tab or Esc pauses and returns to the website. Hold M for the battle map.
Argentine ants reached California by ship in the late 1800s. Without their natural rivals they fused into supercolonies, and the biggest, known as the Very Large Colony, now runs roughly 600 miles along the coast from the Mexican border into Northern California.
Ants from the same supercolony treat each other as nestmates even hundreds of miles apart. Ants from a different one are killed on contact. Researchers at UC San Diego mapped a border north of the city where the Very Large Colony meets the smaller Lake Hodges colony, and found a battlefront miles long, littered with bodies.
A 2006 study estimated at least 15 million workers died there in six months. Later accounts put it at around 30 million a year. Nobody is winning.
Four castes are free. Three specialists unlock for 0.05 SOL each. They play differently, not better: every caste is tuned to land in the same range of damage and staying power.