Hive Strike

One bee. Sixteen worlds. Forty-eight insects that would rather you left. "This meadow is MINE, little bee," says the Hornet Queen. Fifteen more bosses say the same about their own ground: a praying mantis, an orb weaver, a dragonfly ace, a centipede mother, an atlas moth, a scorpion king. Sixteen worlds stand between you and the last of them. A sunlit meadow, a moonlit pine wood, the inside of the comb itself, a volcano floor, a rooftop after dusk, a crystal cavern lit only by its own stones. Every enemy is a real species, rendered close enough that an entomologist would name it. Fly with one finger. The bee follows your thumb, so your hand stays out of the way of the screen. The bosses change their job halfway through the fight rather than just getting angrier: the centipede mother splits in two and pinches, the scorpion plants its tail as a turret and flanks you with its body, the atlas moth turns its wings into shields you have to break. Sixteen guns, each with five levels and a look of its own. A honey fan for a crowd, a stinger beam for one thing you want gone, seeker pollen that never misses, a resin wall you hide behind, a swarm of drones that hunt for you. Forty-eight bugs, and a Bug-Dex that fills in as you beat them, each card carrying one true fact about the real animal. ONE PAYMENT Play the whole game free for thirty days. After that, $1.99 unlocks it forever on every device signed in to your account. There is no subscription, nothing else to buy, and no adverts anywhere in it. WHAT IS IN IT - Sixteen worlds and sixteen bosses, every frame of art generated locally on one Mac - Sixteen weapons, five levels each - A Bug-Dex of forty-eight real insects - Daily runs and eight contracts that change the rules - One thumb, portrait, no tutorial to sit through - Plays offline