Empire of the Ants
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($23.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($13.99)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 6GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Conquer enemy nests and lead your colony through the perils of the forest in this groundbreaking RTS. Empire of the Ants is a photorealistic, third-person real-time strategy game where you command your insect legions in epic battles.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $13.99, set in June 2026. 19 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dune: Spice Wars ($13.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats The Great War: Western Front™ ($6.99, scores 17).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 541 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 155 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 5 of the 27 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 201 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 14.4 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 00:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Empire of Ants was a game I was really looking forward to because it looked unique. It does have a cool premises but ultimately falls flat after a few short hours. I lost interest and to be brutally honest, there isn't much to do. You can explore (which isn't very interesting), command armies of ants (a very basic RTS) or play a platformer game (this is also part of the exploring process). The game looks gorgeous...
Pretty much all the content is shown off in the first 2 hours of the campaign after which it is just very repetitive. Quite disappointing
Fascinating game, cool concept of being the general and controlling your armies and taking over nest, the story is very good and cant wait to try co-op and multiplayer.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Empire of the Ants scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2287330/empire-of-the-antsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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