# Fire Ant Simulator — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Fire Ant Simulator by Boris Tsarkov, rated 4.00/5 from 436 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fire-ant-simulator/id1094201500/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fire-ant-simulator/id1094201500.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 272 · 4★ 46 · 3★ 27 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 64 ## What do users think of Fire Ant Simulator? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging gameplay mechanics - ⭐ Good boss and skin designs - 📱 Runs smoothly on low-end devices - 🐜 Unique ant simulation concept - ⏱️ Decent playtime length (5+ hours) - 👶 Suitable for children - 🎯 Strategic and fast-paced gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent game-breaking bugs and glitches - 📚 Lacks scientific accuracy about ant behavior - ⛔ Cannot climb out of starting area - 🎮 Poor controls and camera mechanics - 😴 Becomes boring quickly - 💰 Excessive ads interrupting gameplay - 🤖 Helper/worker ants don't function properly - ⚔️ Unbalanced difficulty and overpowered bosses - 🗺️ Glitchy landscape causing character to get stuck - ❤️ Insufficient health and energy systems - ⏱️ Hunger depletes too quickly - 🔍 Confusing quest objectives and unclear goals - 🎨 Limited customization options **Commonly reported bugs** - Scorpion boss fails to spawn or appears invisible - Character gets stuck on landscape geometry - Character runs on back legs in sky while dragging on ground - Cannot properly recruit other ants to colony - Restart button only restarts mission, not full game - Bee invasion level is impossible to complete - Boss visible on minimap but not in game world - Inability to look around to find exit hole - Game-breaking lag and performance issues - Unused features and buttons throughout game **Most requested features** - Play as the queen ant - Breeding and colony expansion mechanics - Customizable and editable colony members - Transform base into realistic anthill structure - Ability to find and collect water - Worker ants that actually help gather food - Soldier ants that assist in boss battles - More chambers and colony building options - Unique ant coloration by type - More open-world and creative gameplay - Better task assignment for helper ants - Freemium model instead of ad interruptions - Smaller map size for better pacing - Improved controls and camera system ## Newest reviews (11 of 50) ### 2/5 — Ants *2022-05-30, version 2.0* So, I played this game because I find ants interesting, and thought it would be a fun game. So, one of the things are, it rains underground. It’s not really possible for it to rain underground, unless it close to the top of the hole, or it’s completely vertical, also, ants don’t find new ants. The queen lays eggs, like any other bug, but the bosses and skins are good. Those are just normal game stuff, but please research before making a game with things like ants. The game isn’t the most fun, but it was ok. ### 4/5 — I mean it’s okay but *2020-12-24, version 2.0* I want to be the queen ### 2/5 — it’s good *2020-06-26, version 1.0* if you could get out that would make it a great game ### 2/5 — What scorpion *2020-04-30, version 1.0* I was enjoying this app very much but I hate how low our hunger is and how long eating takes, the bosses get to easy. The worst part is the worker ants who do absolutely nothing but walk back and forth and in the video it says help get food for the queen that’s why we have worker ants!😡and the Scorpion boss was never to be found in the game and what about a smaller map it’s to big and my ant is dead by the time I get to the fight. ### 2/5 — Glitchy and uninteresting *2020-03-02, version 1.0* I LOVED simAnt and hoped this would be similar. You have to ease your players into the controls and map. Not just “find food” and they have to travel a long way, can’t climb many surfaces so you think the way is blocked, and you don’t even know what you’re looking for. The “quests” of finding other ants was nearly impossible because the other ants ran away from me, or if I did touch them, I couldn't tell if they were added to my group or not. Then I got into glitches with running around where my ant was on its back legs running into the sky but dragging along the ground. I’m quitting and deleting. Fix it up and I’ll play again. ### 4/5 — Where dos scorpions!? *2019-12-24, version 1.0* Every thing is a ok but one thing when I got to the scorpion level there was no scorpions and this was to assist game developers. ### 4/5 — Awesome but glitchy too. *2019-12-16, version 1.0* I love it it’s so awesome but when I was on the scorpion boss didn’t spawn please fix it if you do thanks! ### 2/5 — When did the emenys get so strong?! *2019-11-23, version 1.0* I was at age two and a another ant 🐜 killed me! ### 4/5 — Good game! *2019-07-01, version 1.0* Great game but I wish the bosses weren't so hard to kill 😕 ### 2/5 — Not A Nuff Health *2019-02-24, version 1.0* We don’t have enough health we need more health we don’t Stand a chance agents super bosses.We need more energy and the soldiers need to go quicker because their to slow.We need more soldiers. We need the helper ants to do more things than just walk back and forth when they should of making the colony bigger.We need more chambers in the colony. ### 5/5 — 😋😆 *2018-08-12, version 1.0* BEST GAME EVER!!! FIVE STAR ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can I get my money back?? *2020-11-07, version 2.0* Not worth the money. How do I get a refund?? ### 1/5 — Trash game *2020-06-27, version 1.0* You can’t get out the den, your game is trash ### 1/5 — 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😶🤗🤗🤗🤗 *2020-02-26, version 1.0* AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! ### 1/5 — oooooooooooooooooooooo *2019-07-19, version 1.0* Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ### 1/5 — Can’t even start the game without ads *2019-03-01, version 1.0* I get that ads help developers but I can’t even get to the main screen without ads. That’s too much and I don’t want to play it enough to deal with that every single time I open the game. ### 1/5 — Bust *2018-12-20, version 1.0* Trash ### 1/5 — Terribly developed *2018-10-20, version 1.0* The game is full of unused features and buttons. Took about 45 minutes to beat it. Probably could be beaten in 20 min if your ant didn’t get stuck on the landscape every 8 steps ### 1/5 — Looking around *2018-09-16, version 1.0* I can’t even look around to see where the hole is to get out of the mound to get food ### 1/5 — Could have been good, but waste of time *2018-09-09, version 1.0* It looks good in theory. There’s so much that could be done with it, yet it fails so miserably. First you start in a hole you can’t climb out of?? What’s that all about, you’re an ant shouldn’t you be able to climb up anything?? Secondly why make ads that interrupt game play? Just make it freemium, boosts for cash instead.. how annoying is it to be in the middle of something then be forced to stop and watch ads for games that look way better than the one you’re playing?? Also agree with other reviews, ants kill strangers, they don’t just start a community?? Try something more like starting as a queen and making workers and soldiers as you feed and grow?? “Sim Ant” has been around for decades, at least try making something that resembles ant life. Email me if you need a little guidance on the nature... ### 1/5 — I hate this game! *2018-07-02, version 1.0* It's just to boring for me if I could I would give the game 0 stars ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Tick tick tick *2020-10-25, version 2.0* 🐜🐜🐜awesome ant game this is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!!!!!! ### 5/5 — More updates please *2020-07-06, version 1.0* Turn the base into a anthill, breeding, customizing and editing clan members, please! ### 5/5 — Food.( And other stuff. ) *2020-06-05, version 1.0* So, Something wrong. WITH THE NUTS Or whatever the food is. I can’t even eat it. I thought you could only eat when it says “ your ant is hungry “. So I tried it. And I. Ended up dying of starvation. And, this is a tip. The restart button only restarts your mission. Not the game. So don’t you dare change that, Boris! Other wise, I love the game! ### 5/5 — .. *2020-01-14, version 1.0* So SaD ### 5/5 — I destroyed the scorpion boss *2019-07-19, version 1.0* It soooooo easy to kill the scorpion boss ### 5/5 — Boris very good developer. Five star game! *2019-07-14, version 1.0* I will tell you a story. In Siberian village there was born a boy with only one arm. All the village people knew that the sickly boy would soon die. This village was built in a cold valley overlooked by a castle where lived a cruel count. The village people surrender all their crops to the count. Without food the sickly boy would surely die. But the boy with one arm clings to life. In his youth it was discovered that the sickly boy was a true genius. He thought in mathematics and taught himself how to read, which none of the village peoples could. The boy’s mother knew that he was truly special. The boy had a mission to free his village from the grasp of the evil count. And so he decided that he must learn at great Moscow School for the Gifted Child. For this he would need many money. His village produced only one Siberian rouble a year. They were paid horrible wages by the evil count, who stole their crops and fed them to his fat pig children. The entire village pitched in to get this one armed boy to the great school. They bought him a one armed suit and a suitcase and a pair of shoes, and one glove, but it was for the wrong hand so the boy donated it with wondrous grace. His mother said goodbye, and the boy got on his mule to go to the great Moscow school. To pay for the young scholar’s education, many a villager would have to starve. A dozen of his neighbors died. His mother passed from the cholera. His father was long dead of a particularly devastating infection of the foot. But the one armed boy learned for many years and returned to the village. He brought water and technology with him from the great school at Moscow. The boy was now a man. He was going to create a world called an application for people all over the world to explore on their phones. With the many coins that this great application earned, he could support the entire village and feed them, to which the evil count laughed and said it would never work. But it did. And this is that app. And Boris Tsarkov was that boy. And I was the evil count. Boris, boy, I am sorry! I was rooting for you the entire time. My pig children are very hungry, this is why I had to steal the food. We play on your app, it is such a good app. We appreciate you so much Boris. Your village is so proud of you. May the gods bless the one-armed boy Boris Tsarkov. I will wire you the money before the harvest moon, because my royal line may not survive the tides. ### 5/5 — Good for children *2019-07-14, version 1.0* This is a great game. I do recommend you get this for yourself or your children!!! ### 5/5 — 🧐 *2019-05-30, version 1.0* It’s a good game but it is not very long ### 5/5 — Pretty good! *2019-05-21, version 1.0* The game is amazing but I don’t like that you can’t find water you just have to hope that it rains soon. Over all I love this game and I recommend this to mobile gamers! ### 5/5 — Very good gameplay *2018-12-09, version 1.0* This game is very well put together. The story is emotional and deep and makes you feel like an ant. The gameplay is very strategical and fast paced with upgrades along the way. Combine this with the 5 hours of playtime guaranteed and you have a true ant simulator. Runs even on low quality devices and never lags. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*