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Antheim: Ant Colony Sim

Dig tunnels, grow the nest

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// The game

You draw the tunnels. The colony digs them.

Antheim is a cosy side-view ant colony simulator. You draw a tunnel with your finger, and the whole colony digs the drawn path, carries the soil to the surface grain by grain and opens whatever was hidden underground.

The underground is alive. Break into a pocket of ground water and it pours down the shafts until you dig a drain. Boulders fall when the soil under them is dug out and crush whoever stands there, raiders included.

Every chamber has its own rules: a nursery, storage, an aphid farm for honeydew, a brewery that turns honeydew into mead (drink it and the colony works twice as fast), a laboratory with permanent research and sentry posts whose soldiers meet raiders at the door. Spiders, centipedes and rival colonies attack across four worlds — Flower Meadow, Pine Forest, Autumn Grove and Tropical Jungle.

// In motion

Four short stories from the anthill

Ground waterDig into a water pocket and it floods the shafts below until you drain it.
Falling rocksDig out the soil under a boulder and it falls on whoever is below.
RaidsSpiders and rival colonies attack, and every ant drops its work to defend the queen.
MeadThe brewery turns aphid honeydew into mead that makes the colony work twice as fast.
// Screenshots

iPhone screenshots

Drawing a tunnel with a finger The colony digs the drawn tunnel Ground water flooding a shaft A boulder falling into a tunnel Ants defending the nest from a raid The four worlds of Antheim

Full-size screenshots (1320 × 2868) are in the press kit below.

// Coming up

Version 1.3 and the winter event

What's new in 1.3 — Day and Night

November 2026
  • Day and night with real weather: dawn over the meadow, rain that darkens the soil, snow over the pine forest.
  • Every world has its own ants and its own raiders: carpenter ants, earwigs and a hedgehog in the Pine Forest; wasps, chafers and a badger in the Autumn Grove; army ants, rhino beetles and an armadillo in the Tropics.
  • Coming back the next day: a summary of what the colony did while you were away, a seven-day gift calendar that never resets, and optional reminders.
  • Live world cards, a new loading screen with tips, and Bahasa Indonesia as the tenth language.

Winter in the Anthill

15 December – 10 January

A free holiday event. Snow settles on the meadow and the pine forest, snow caps the bushes, a lantern lights up by the entrance at dusk and a fir tree with lights stands by the queen.

Every day brings a winter task — stock up 300 food, open two caves, hatch five ants, or beat a raid at dusk or at night — with crystals as the reward. Seven completed tasks give the queen a winter hat she keeps forever. No purchase needed.

// For press

Fact sheet

TitleAntheim: Ant Colony Sim
DeveloperImpression Team (on the App Store as Vitalii Chardymov), publishing games since 2021
PlatformsiPhone and iPad (iOS / iPadOS 15+), Mac, Android
ReleasedOctober 2026
PriceFree, with optional in-app purchases and optional rewarded videos
Age rating4+
Languages10: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Bahasa Indonesia (from 1.3)
PlayNo account or sign-in, works offline, progress saves to iCloud
Contactvitalii.chardymov@gmail.com
PrivacyPrivacy policy

Press kit

Everything in one archive, free to use in coverage of Antheim:

  • App icon, 1024 × 1024
  • 6 iPhone screenshots, 1320 × 2868
  • 4 key frames from the gameplay videos, 1920 × 1080
  • Fact sheet and description (text)
Download press kit (ZIP, 3.7 MB)