Last updated on November 19th, 2025 at 06:53 pm
Ant Colony: Wild Forest Game – Strategy Game Review
Ant Colony: Wild Forest Game is a Strategy/Simulation game from HYPERCELL SIA, first launched in 11th April 2024.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 3,971+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Ant Colony: Wild Forest Game Stand Out
Build your ant empire in the wild forest! Create a thriving underground colony, command swarms of ants, and survive against hostile insects. Expand your territory, evolve your ants, and prove your strategy in this real-time simulator.
Features:
• Freestyle anthill building – design and expand your underground base.
• 10+ unique ant types – from builders to fighters, with more coming soon.
• Swarm mechanics – lead massive armies to overpower enemies.
• 50+ enemies – termites, spiders, crabs and other dangerous predators.
• Raids and battles – conquer enemy nests and defend your colony.
• Evolution system – adapt your ants to new challenges and grow stronger.
• Difficulty levels – relax in Normal or test survival in Hard.
Every choice matters: gather resources, build your empire, and fight for survival. Will your colony rise as the strongest kingdom of the forest?
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Ant Colony: Wild Forest Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Dynamic pricing for ants
- Daily rewards
- The limit on the number of defenders has been removed
- Save errors for all locations have been fixed
Download & Availability
Ant Colony: Wild Forest Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Ant Colony: Wild Forest Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is incredibly detailed other similar games dont show the same amount of detail. Very fun and pleasing game. But one thing the skirmish queen no longer spawns with barracks nor fighters.
Cute game but hard to master. Its fun learning as we go.
Id give this game 10 stars if we could. Its fun, its challenging, its pretty, no ads unless you want them. Im obsessed. We just beat all the levels on hard and Im anxiously awaiting new levels! Gonna be playing endless mode until then we do miss being able to sell extra cards for sugar though.
We played a lot of mobile games since we were a kid. As qualities of games decreases each year after year its hard to find anything worth ur while. But this game. Man this game is a gem. The gameplay is smooth, simple yet entertaining. The only down side is the weekly subscription but to be honest we wouldnt mind paying for the game. We havent paid for mobile games for quite a while. Never have payed since 2013 clash of clans. But this game is worth us giving them the buck for how good it is. 5/5.
This game is our new favorite game, its a must play.
A great game with a nice art style, we cant wait for the full release on steam. We do wish ads were a little less frequent. We understand needing money but it feels like Im getting an ad every 10-15 minutes.
Would like to see a nerf to the snow beetles during endless mode or limit how many spawn doesnt matter how many defenders or attackers or bodys guards or even the new giant ants they always tear through the whole colony no matter what but thats the only complaint this game is awesome and have been here since the beta.
You should totally add an unlimited mode with progressive enemies.
On the food pricing for the ants it is not showing the correct price for them. Also it is still jumping up higher and higher even when we have not upgraded them.
This game has so much potential with it and we think if it was just a payed game. We think with all these micro transactions, which on top of everything wouldnt be that bad if it wasnt necessary to win later on. Also, this subscription is weekly which and before the developers response with its completely optional. Yeah its optional but in order to get further in the game, you pretty much have to. We wouldnt really call that optional. We do hope that this game will dial down on the micro transactions.
We very much enjoy playing the but its so incredibly grindy that its not worth playing unless youre paying.
The game is fun, but to really do anything you need the pass which is $7.49/week! Yes, you read that correctly, per week.
Must be an ant up close with a magnifying glass to read the tiny tiny TINY font on iPhones.
The new daily reward is good. However, the ant price seems really cheap, which makes the game less challenging. And the new eggs animation looks kind of bad too.
This is just the type of game Ive been looking for. We love the game play and style. Thank you for the hard work in the development of this game. We hope to see new units and levels. We appreciate that it isnt pay to win and how the difficulty rise is progressive and not instant.
This game is amazing, but the real heroes are the developers. They have addressed every issue and are continuing to provide improvements to the game. Its an easy game to play free, but its also one we dont mind putting cash into since they clearly support their community, and the game is intensely fun and fuels a strategic mind. A definite must-play.
Just make it a paid game , with ads it is UNPLAYABLE.
Fan of the game, got to 35 wave on endless and had to kill the game because the number of resources on the floor lagged the game out, we were getting one frame every 10-20 sec. If there was an option to remove those we want to see how long we can go for.. Had 590 ants at we point. Thats didnt cause the lag, there was performance issues but were manageable.
We are really enjoying this game, making our colony and taking down bases! We do wish we could send loaders to go harvest from bases. All of the food, and chitlin just sits at the destroyed bases. We wish we could send them to go harvest it.
This game is actually good and fun to play but its terrible how theres an ad almost every minute or every couple minutes and you need to press the X like 5 time just to get off the ad.
Im super addicted to this app. We love it an unnatural amount. Although we did get really annoyed with the ads pretty quickly (they don't start showing ads till you get past the first level, and by that time we were hooked), and we paid a bit to take away the ads, but it was a one-time purchase. And given how much we use this app, we think Ive gotten a lot out of those few dollars. A big however, we are really upset with the update that takes away your ability to sell your ant cards for sugar. It really feels like an important and rewarding aspect of the game has been taken away and gotten harder. We would love if they brought that feature back.
We personally am addicted to this game. We have a fix where we crave a game that you can level up units, have them work on their own while you command different units to do different tasks. We love that you have to conquer, discover, and build in this game, all the while having to find food in order to do multiple tasks. This game has multiple levels and gives two sets of difficulty on most levels, which helps to keep things interesting, since it gives you more to do when you complete all of the levels. Our main problem however is how many issues are within the game. For one, it seems like the developers didnt take their time, as we can see many things are misspelled and poorly worded, which can lead to confusion or assumptions that they didnt really care about the quality. Second, whenever we try to upgrade our ants by combining them, it has a random chance of it sort of not working, and just eating our sugar cubes and ants, which is very frustrating. Third, when in a game, the worker ants constantly get confused on simple tasks. For instance, if they are supposed to fill in an area, they sort of bug out and jitter in one spot while doing nothing.
Progress and micro transactions arent saved if you delete the app. We had a lot of fun with this game but had to put it down for a bit just to find out a lot of our purchases had been wiped :(.
We started playing this game a week or two ago while we were traveling, and suddenly when Im too busy to play anymore, ants show up in our kitchen?!?! We wish we were kidding, because now we cant east the pumpkin spice donuts our grandma bought. (There were only two left).
The new daily login rewards dont work for us we just dont have an option for it and im not sure what to do about that because ive beaten all the available levels and we wss looking forward to that new update.
Not sure when it happened but it feels as though the font size and UI shrunk. If there was a way adjust the text and buttons to be bigger that would be great for someone like us with poor eyesight. We have an iphone xr if thats if relevance.
Super addictive game, absolutely loving the balance in it. Im sorry this comment isnt for the game its for the developers, the game is amazing and absolutely play it. Devs, the newest update has completely removed our skirmish queens static ability of spawning in with an attacker, so now its just a universal queen in our game. Thank you.
We really enjoy this game, the gameplay is a lot of fun and the pixelart graphics are beautiful but be prepared for a decent amount of forced ads while playing. We dont mind the forced ads so much since we want to support the devs but would much rather do a one time payment(s) to remove ads or unlock other features but the current system is a weekly subscription which we think will turn off a lot of players. Monthly subscription payment we can understand but we think weekly is a bit much especially since at the $5-$7 it usually costs would end up being upwards of $300 a year. We do like this game and we do want to support the devs but we definitely think the current subscription plan is excessive compared to other games.
The game is fun so far, Ive only gotten to the second level. One problem Im running into is that the ui and the text elements are so small they are almost impossible to read, and theres no setting to change the size of the text or ui to make it bigger. The only graphics settings are for performance vs quality. Even with our glasses on, we have to hold our phone an inch away from our face to read anything. This is a huge accessibility issue, especially given that this is a mobile game and phone screens are small, and seems like an oversight on the developers part. Please add settings to make things bigger.
Decent game just ads every 2 minutes.
You use to be able to sacrifice ants for sugar we cant as of today so it takes forever to upgrade ants without paying a ton of money for sugar. We dont mind paying money in games we just dont like when im forced to. Other than that id like more rooms or type of ants but we think its a good early game.
Never before have we written a review for a game before. But with the way games are these days most should know by playing this. That this is one of the best developed and fun to play games on mobile or of any platform in the last decade. To put it simply. Mobile game of the year. Pay us.
We like the game a lot for our first time playing it but we really think there should be more rooms and different types of ants added.
We found that if our red soldier ant initially has two areas, it can only produce one ant. Tank ants will also have this situation. We hope it can be solved. Thank you.
Just the right amount of difficulty and neat art also we love ants so theres that.
Ok so we are only putting 5 so it can be up here but You got to keep restarting the whole. Colony and go to another one again and again.
This is a great way to spend an hour or so at a time, just working on your colony, building it up, and working on the collectible deck system. We do wish the perks that were removed in the latest patch would come back, and that we'd get more levels soon, but we know the devs are hard at work! This reminds us of classic games like SimAnt in the best way, and the graphics have a cute nostalgic gaming feel while actually being very detailed. Even the enemies are kind of adorable.
This games is the game that we can play for hours and it kind of calming but the thing they should have is a sandbox made Im not demanding Im just asking.
Okay, we LOVE this game. Its so addicting! To be honest, sometimes we feel like more games should have the ability to become a queen ant, and this game is just like that: please add more updates, its a really good game, and.. Did the artist have a stroke after making the arts? Because they are so cool! We think you guys should add another ant rarity, mythic? And the mythic queen should be named Samuel Queen as we dont heal the word Samuel much.
Yall need to make WAY more ants and start a discord hear us out we have a idea for a ant the healer it heals the queen and add a queen heath bar at the top of the screen Im not trying to be rude but PLEASE the healer would be SSSOOO COOL.
Hi we love the game, we would love to see an option to be Abel to capture enemy bases and use them as a new home to start a new colony elsewhere. We would also love to be Abel to have different ant hill skin options instead of the boring tree hillin every game.Another cool feature to the game could be having actual different species of ants that you can choose from which would give you different abilities added into the game. Just some ideas :). Love this game tho we hope the future stays bright for it.
We enjoy the game a lot but recently Ive come across a bug, after our base gets attacked the queen moves around and it no longer lets us make worker ants, is there any way to move the queen back.
We love this game it is a great time killer with almost no ads at all but we wish the merging cost less sugar otherwise it is a great game and we recommend it.
No tundra glitch happened to us, we do have ONE glitch though, It says 8/10 maps and we only have seven, the beach map hasnt released yet, right? RIGHT.
The app is nice and all, but we wish you added a cloud save feature so in case you get a new phone or uninstall the app, you would get to keep your progress when you reinstall it.
Its an ok game but the menus are hard to read on mobile because the fonts are so small. Tundra is impossible to beat on hard mode. We cant even get 1 attacker and maybe 1 defender before a horde of bugs comes and demolishes everything. You dont start out with much so its extremely hard to get food to create ants or build anything. It needs better balance.
No other mobile ant game compares to the management and building of your own colony like this one.
Love the game, but the pop up is way too frequent and makes it difficult to enjoy. Not only that, getting the seeds for upgrades are slower for ants than getting food resources, even though 10 pop up every time enemy base is raided.
Let us start off with that this game is super fun and kinda relaxing. Ive only been playing a few days and am enjoying it a lot. But there are a few things that need fixing or adjustments. We see ants especially our builders getting stuck in dirt all the time. And once it gets stuck even if you try to free it its frozen in place. We also wish there was a better way to tell your ants what to do, a chance of it doing what you want just isnt optimal. Also, we dont like when you move your queen to a new, safer place in the colony, but when you get attacked, the attackers just ignore everything and go straight for your queen, often ending in a game over whether you had warriors or not guarding the door. Maybe if they would fight any any they see on the way to the queen it would be better or if the warriors would just kill anything in the colony. Lastly, we noticed this game is kinda money grabby, like almost $8 a week for an ok bundle kinda pushes us away from wanting to spend money. Otherwise, this is a pretty good game and we would highly recommend to anyone that is thinking about playing, especially if any of these issues were to be fixed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.5.3
- Size: 376.64 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: BE, CS, EN, FI, FR, DE, ID, IT, PL, PT, RU, ES, TR, UK
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: HYPERCELL SIA
Last updated: 30th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: HYPERCELL SIA