Rally Point The ants are willing to die for me in Empires Of The Undergrowth

News Source : Rock Paper Shotgun
News Summary
- Being Ants is one of those dream game concepts, and an incredibly difficult one to translate to a workable, satisfying design that isn't hyper simplified or a glorified reskin.
- EOTU's first quirk is that it doesn't quite fit an obvious model.
- It's some sort of cousin to Dungeon Keeper, placing you underground and tagging tiles for workers to dig out instead of building.
- Workers will then bring stored food to the tile, creating a larva that will either pop open into a fresh ant, or sit there indefinitely, waiting for an existing adult to die so it can replace them.
The Rally Point is a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming.My first memory is of ants. Just ants. Its one of those very early ones that are nothing but a mo [+8693 chars]