In RTS games like Command and Conquer you’ve got to think of the big picture: grand battlefield strategies enacted by individual units. Well, what if instead you looked at the tiny picture, and your individuals were all connected by a hive mind? That’s what Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse’s ant strategy game Empires of the Undergrowth offers, and after seven long years in early access, it’s finally hit version 1.0.

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