Get Your Buzz On With Bee Simulator, A Brand New Game Coming To Switch

now that looks like a fantastic game.

Scary Pooh stretches his arm “give me all of your bee syrup now.”

Actually, I’m fond of bees and reading about them! I’ll keep tabs on this one, since the trailer stung my curiosity.

This looks brill! (Did anyone play Mosquito Ka (Mr Mosquito) on PS2?)

A game I never knew I wanted.
But if you sting someone, do you do a slow agonising death after ripping out you insides and leaving it on someone?
Also, can you just fly into someones face for no reason and annoy the hell out of them??

@GrailUK Oh, gosh, that’s a flashback! I also recall seeing footage of it on the old G4 channel (America).

Okay, LACK of Violence.
I'm so relieved to hear, because i'm afraid it will rated Teen due to blood or moderate violence.

Will it bee any good?

I hope the reviews won’t sting too much

This actually looks pretty good.

I hope there's a deep impactful story. Like if you befriend a human because she saved your life, you become best friends, do activities together, go shopping and that's where you discover how humans take YOUR honey. Which is when you and your human friend team up to fight a legal battle against the big honey corporations and take back what you believe to be rightfully yours. But then, upon victory, you realise that this unbalances the ecosystem and the brings upon an apocalyptic wave of plant death and the only way to reverse this is to use the pollen from a flower show from another state. So you and your human friend aqquire these, but on the flight back, through comedy hijinks, you get the pilots knocked out and you have to call upon your human friend and bee friends to land the plane yourselves.

Then you die.

I'm buzzing, hive not seen such a good looking game. Hopefully it won't bee long until it is out, and the pricing is nectar nothing.

I really want this game!

This looks nice and hard to pull off. I'd rather have a beehive management game (or better yet, an anthill one), but this may be cool.
As a kid I always thought that a small patch of ground with a few rocks and shabby plants would make a good multiplayer arena. Never mind venturing into the ant tunnels themselves...

Might get a buzz out of it

This looks like it could be a fun game i will get it.

Ya like jazz?

I actually think that this looks great. I'd love it if it had a survival mode where u hunt for supplies and craft your hive.

@Ooyah punny!! I sea what you did there... i shore did!!

Now someone needs to update and reboot Sim Ant.

@sonicbooming Most people aren't aware that Sim Ant was the first real time strategy game... way before Command and Conquer or Warcraft. Insect RTS feels more organic than the usual RTS, I hope this game is good.

Wow that actually looks like alot of fun never played goat simulator but have seen gameplay this one looks way better you with flying and exploring and fighting other bugs count me in looking forward to this one.

@Nincompoop Hey, cool, I wasn't aware that Sim Ant was like that. Certainly not the first, but right in there with the origins.

Technosoft's Herzog Zwei (1989) had most of the genre locked down with an action angle as well. That was a sequel to Herzog from 1988 (and these were inspired by Rescue Raiders). Dune 2 Battle for Arrakis (1992) really had the core of what was in future RTS games and was directly inspired by Herzog Zwei and even the Mac user interface. It cemented the PC-based RTS genre conventions that played out in Warcraft/Starcraft and Command & Conquer and many others over the years.

Games I remember playing in the lineage that led to RTS games before Herzog Zwei and Dune 2: Intellivision's Utopia, though that's a stretch. The Ancient Art of War, Populous, and the often ignored 1984's Rescue Raiders, which is like Choplifter but you are sending troops of different types to take over bases that give resources and eventually lead to the main base against another chopper doing the same against you.

Herzog is a vertical mech based copy of Rescue Raiders as far as I can tell and that led to Herzog Zwei. I played Herzog in an emulator way later, though.

Anyway, research on this has been way more expanded since last I looked and now there is an excellent Wikipedia article on it — though it fails to mention Rescue Raiders which in my view is really is a side view RTS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy

Anyway, Sim Ant belongs in there between Herzog Zwei and Dune 2 somewhere, but I don't know enough of what it includes to figure that out.

This looks amazing! Those graphics are pretty good, too. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for this. I loved Sim Ant. And who didn't love Buck Bumble on 64?

From the trailer it looks like Bee Action-Adventure rather than Bee Simulator, but it seems fun. Always liked tiny heroes in a world of giants (like Pikmin, Chibi-Robo, Mushroom Men).

@aaronsullivan SimAnt practically layout the basic template of RTS.

You leave pheromone that leads your ants to food (resources), you dig tunnels in your nest to store food and eggs. You tend to the queen's egg that hatched into workers, fighters or winged ants (classes of army). You defend your nest against invading rival ants and lead your ants to invade their nest. You achieved victory when you killed their queen.

the next worst thing to come out base on bees?
if it's good, than i'll get it later down the road.

I think the title could stand to be a little more creative, but I’m definitely interested.

Saw this at NintebdoEverything days ago, also saw sentiment about Buck Bumble.

Now that's all I see.

Looks very interesting. Unique. I hope they pull it off well.

Obligatory Bee Movie joke

Bee simulator, except every time they say "bee"...

When I saw this game, it immediately reminded me of a scene from an Epcot ride called “Spaceship Earth”. It’s theme was the history of human communication. When I was a kid, my favorite scene of the ride was during an interpretation of the future. The scene was supposed to be a classroom in the future. It was darkened, so the the only thing you could see well besides some silhouettes was a giant screen. On the screen, the kids and teacher were apparently engaged in some collaborative interactive simulation. The teacher guided the kids to make various spaceships and environments. Then one kid had the idea to make the ship into a bee, and immediately the ship transformed into bee. And the other kids started transforming it’s environment into a nature scene. That scene looked a lot like this game. Spaceship earth no longer has this version of the future part of the ride anymore. It’s too bad, though. It was really cool.

@Anti-Matter Highly sexualized shirtless muscle men...that's ok. Violence in a bee video game....not ok.

Looks like we need a new Top 10 Bees.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZNog04eB0

@ImagineerNik

@Flipbot I vaguely remember that bit. I'm forgetting plenty of parts though. The laying on your back part I remember as a musical ad for the sponsor, too. Do you remember the Horizons ride? The whole thing is a shame to lose.

Hey, I think I found a little video of it, and though I'm pretty sure I rode it in '96 I don't remember a bunch of it. The bee part might be cut off, though. https://youtu.be/c66YGgABnS0?t=10m22s

@aaronsullivan
Cool. Thanks. Brings back old memories. I’m not sure which one the Horizons ride was. I was only at Epcot once as a teen. I just remember Spaceship earth being my favorite.

@aaronsullivan Oh, that one didn’t have it, but I found one on youtube that had the full classroom sequence. https://youtu.be/vM1O69qumhw it’s at around 13:20

It’s too bad most video couldn’t be captured in hd back in the early 2000s. They couldn’t capture low light very well either.

I wish it had an over the top style beehive building part too where you had to defend the hive from enempien. Then you’d build certain things to get new missions to go on. And those missions would be FPS style flying, varying from collecting resources to attacking missions and stealth info gathering. And then throw in some RPG elements to get exp and new abilities for your bee(s).

How are you supposed to save the hive from the threat of humans without violence? That's some simulator.

This looks like so much fun! I actually don't like bees, or anything that flies around my face with a pointy butt, but I do like the ability to fly around with 6 degrees of freedom and BLAST SOME WASPS WITH A LASER GUN!

This is the sequel to "Right about now it's time to rock with the Bibbity-'Buck Bumble'" right?

Ugh, I have an epic aversion to bees (actually all insects). This game looks beautiful and incredibly innovative, but wow, bees?! 😬 I'd have rather had it be birds. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe that's a good idea for a sequel I suppose.

Doesn't look to bad, will keep my eye on it.

Oh bee hive! X-D

I gotta play this, and I gotta play this on Switch

Looks positively zany!

So happy this kind of idea still makes it.

@Flipbot Cool, now I see it clearly. It's crazy the footage you can see of the modern rides, now, and I'm glad they're being documented, but obviously better in person.