Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 08:11 pm
Pocket Bees: Colony Simulator – Strategy Game Review
Pocket Bees: Colony Simulator is a Strategy/Simulation game from Ariel Villafane, first launched in 7th July 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 316+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pocket Bees: Colony Simulator Stand Out
- Forage resources and bring them back to your nest.
- Improve your nest chambers for extra bonuses.
- Breed worker and guard bees.
- Capture other creatures and make them join your army.
- Collect all the creatures and make them stronger.
- Fight other players real time for resources and bonus items.
- Complete the story and daily missions for extra prizes.
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pocket Bees: Colony Simulator is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
v0.0072
Small changes.
Bug fixes.
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Download & Availability
Pocket Bees: Colony Simulator is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
We love pocket ants and when we saw this game we loved it! But we noticed you can only get to still a large number of workers but in pocket ants you could have as many ants you wanted so if you mind can you make it where we can have like..90 or 100 where thats the limit? And also can you make it where there can be a other role/job for the bee hive the nurse role to a bit more of a help of boosting up the process of the Babies turning into adults faster and the nurses would be able to make them kinda faster with the extra help and can you also make it where the hive/inside your home can you make it bigger?. And we think thats it! Thank you for reading this large thing..and also you dont have to make them all you can try doing one at a time.
So when we were in a battle, you let the other guy get two turns to attack us.
Its ok but if you are being chasd by a wasp they do Damage to you from a distance and we think people useing guest mode should not have there progres deleted.
You should make more games like this.
SERIOUSLY WHY we give you our password our username but every once in a while you turn in that login screen WHY like who needs to login for a small 8 megabyte game WHO HACKER IS GONNA TAKE MY SAVE DATA. Also to make Matters worse if they hadnt already, for some reason SOME STUIPED REASON our google password HAS FREAKING GOT WIPED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH. We put our Stuiped pass code In and EVERY STINKING TIME IT DOESNT REMEMBER. Oh what is dis we here we can use facial recognition or thumb print on the device, WELL GUESS WHAT, we dont like showing our face around and our thumb print thing on the home button JUST DECIDED TO STOP USING MY THUMB PRINT. Like theres Roblox who doesnt ask for a password or username again once but on the other hand you have this game that wants info for some reason (like they think some hacker once saved data from a 16-bit bee game) wants so much info not private of anything but its SOOOOOOO ANNOYING. And now we cant play our game because our account vanished so thanks a lot our used to be 3rd favorite game so before you download think about.
Good game except that the creatures have so little storage that they can get so much more powerful then in Pocket Ants(our hummingbird has a level so much higher then any of our Pocket Ants creatures) that we once found a level 8 creature which was hard cuz we normally just use our level 7 hummingbird to win but this time it was not enough so we had to use our guard bees (which are never used). And bees are our favorite animal so good game.
We have a bee name Bree and she loves this game. She always wants to play, but this is not plushable. She wants to play but she cant please make another game for her to watch.
Pretty great game but still 4 stars and there is only one fix that Ive seen often. The fix is that what are our worker bees doing in our hive? Our worker bees go up north instead of staying in the queen chamber. Pls fix that bug thank you Update: Some are Impossible story missions. Cannot achieve them for example, defeating wasps, bumblebees, creatures, growing the flowers, breeding workers and guards, and winning battles. You do not have to make it that way. And the minor bug is the Gaurd bees stuck and going around until you recruit them and they will be unstuck.
Seriously why do you have to login to play the game without losing progress as guest? Just dumb.
Its just a copy of pocket ants but worse music and worse design.
Hello, your game is very cool, but there is no change of day and night and a lot of bugs, bees have a small intelligence. Why is everything worked out in pocket ants? But not in pocket bees? Make a global update. Thank you.
Hello, your game is very cool, but there is no change of day and night and a lot of bugs, bees have a small intelligence. Why is everything worked out in pocket ants? But not in pocket bees? Make a global update. Thank you.
We love it and its fun but it needs a graphics update.
This game is really fun and has lotta similarities to the original PocketAnts and we recommend you to play that game, but this game is slightly different. This games combat system dont like as much as pocket dance. Its also a lot more stressful. You can download this game if you want and some people would probably really like it but we recommend Pocket Ants.
Hi so we got 50 bees in the game and its fun but we think if your gonna have wasps camping the pollen then like the flowers another one should be there cause we tried sneaking but that didnt work out so please make another pollen point.
Pretty great game but still 4 stars and there is only one fix that Ive seen often. The fix is that what are our worker bees doing in our hive? Our worker bees go up north instead of staying in the queen chamber. Pls fix that bug thank you.
In pocket ants you can tame TONS of creatures, in pocket bees there are only like 2 different creatures.
You Know how there are Bees in Pocket Ants?Try adding ants to this game! Still 3 stars.
We really enjoy playing this game.
So maybe you could have different classes like female future queen bees and you need males to mate with them one you reach aleast 60 worker bees you can start to make future queens that can make different bees like having bigger stronger bees.
Finally this game doesnt load long like pocket ants.
This game and Pocket Ants are such AMAZING games! We can play them for hours. We really hope they make more game like this with different kinds of bugs and animals. We love the resource collecting games and needing to upgrade everything. Definitely Recommend if youre into that as well.
This is an amazing game really like it we like it a lot but a few things we want you to add new creatures and to make the enemy bees A little bit weaker because every time we try to fight them they always defeat us so we really like them to be a little less stronger than you.
Games good but it keeps freezing and crashing and every time we open the game it automatically crashes we deleted the game and redownloaded it and the same thing happened good game it just needs to be fixed.
Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down.
We downloaded this not too long ago and we really enjoy it as a leisure game. Ive been having issues with it opening though. We keep getting notifications saying come back, your bees need you and its so disheartening because Ill go to open it to play and it wont even open. We want to play the game, so please fix this bug. Other than that, we really enjoy it. We wish there were more instructions to the game as well.
We think the game is great except for one thing the battles. In the battles we have 4 units but it only lets us use 3. Its quiet annoying but not that bad so.
Its really fun but then we just shuts you out.
We love bees so we decided to try this game. Its super adorable and fun! The only problem is that it spikes in difficulty rather quickly. Once you get past the first couple challenges things get tougher and made us lose interest.
This game is great put we would like the pixelated graphics its makes a much more retro look to the game and also the way you like the ant version of this game we would like the works would gather the same why and also gathers the same speed as the player and also the amount of time to our soldiers shorter 30s is a short amount of time put maybe workers and soldiers would either cost the same amount workers do not need honey to be made or the cost of soldiers would be 15 honey this is a good game and the devs of this game are really talented but from this game it seems that they have showed that the old way is better then the new one.
As the title states, our phone is fully updated but for some reason, after closing our home screen or opening the lock screen, the game keeps failing to launch. Propolis is hard to obtain, so maybe make it so we can get it through beating creatures or enemy hives? Maybe there can be a new use for captured creatures like making it so we can hire them to guard or auto attack enemy hives while were offline? Resources are hard to regain after using them so maybe add in a mailbox function for overflow rewards of the resources. Also maybe more flower color combinations, like white.
Hi we have been playing this in android and iOS but it is down in Both operating systems please fix this and we will rate 5 stars.
Later we were play bee and it was incredible and so much fun but next day we were try to login but it says task faulted and we were crying cry and cry If owner reading this please fix this bug.
We don't know what we're supposed to do we loaded in and we can't do anything the egg won't hach we can't do anything.
This is trash because it keep KICKING ME OUT OF THE GAME!!!!!!! FIX it or Ill QUIT you b**ch.
You should be able to make guards first.
We would really like if you made a pollen source without enemies because we cant upgrade the queen chamber to lvl 2 or could you make it so we could use something else.
Remove the continue button when logon using Apple ID.
We cant get pollen because theres an enemy guard bug, and we cant collect it or we die. We cant get a brood chamber to defend our bees because we need pollen. The resources on the enemy side never deplete, we dont know how to get seeds. We sent 20 bees to get honey for them to just die because we cant get a brood chamber to make guard bees.
The game is good but we think theres something that makes it super hard the wasp or round the pollenGuards the pollen and you can get it from the flower so we think you should be able to get the guard bees first.
We love this game but maybe u can add stingers to the workers.
When an Emmy bees attack you and you go away it still gives you damage.
Ive played pocket Ants. Enjoyed it. But we enjoy pocket bees a lot more. If this gane develops as well as pocket ants then this might be our favorite game. The only issue is the buggy crafting system. It just doesnt work or lets us craft anything at all sometimes.
We downloaded this game and we like it. We just have one issue. Its about collecting pollen. So we keep seeing that we need to select a source for the pollen. It wont let us make the rose the source for the nectar and the pollen. Which is fine. Except that we dont have any guard bees because we need pollen to upgrade the brood chamber. We cant attack enemy bees, wasps, or anything else without guard bees. Please help.
So the quest tells us to tell the bees to get honey from the rose so we did and it still did not work.
The other bees gard the only pollen source And the only way to get it is to fight for it and you need gards for that but gards cost pollen but you cant get pollen same problem in the ant game.
Im having what seems to be a common issue of not being able to get the pollen without guards but cant get guards without pollen. We really enjoyed the game up to this point. But after this point it becomes unplayable.
Im a big fan of this, Pocket Insects thingy.and was wondering, when do you think we get to play as the big bugs.
This game is so fun whoever doesnt like it is crazy we dont knowWhy they wouldnt like this game.
Let us start off by saying, we really enjoy this game. You guys have made a lot of updates recently that we really enjoy. Taking off the wait times for the collection, is one example of those really good updates. However, lately, we noticed that the battle settings could use some work. We are currently at a battle score of 1108, and our highest level creature is 6. A few days ago when Ive been playing, we were playing with people that we had mixed results with. We won some, and lost some. That was good, the matches were fair. Recently though, we have been unable to find a good matches. We have been battling with a lot of 1600s score people, who have level 13 pets. Then, when we know its impossible to win, we surrender. But then, when we go to try to battle again, it sets us up with the same person. The same person, that we had to surrender to because we knew it was impossible to beat them. Even if there are a limit on how many people are trying to battle, setting somebody up with the same person, is very annoying. We would hope that you could instead tell us that there are no matches available, so we at least dont waste our tokens. We havent been able to win a match in days because theyve been so unfair. We cant complete our daily quests because we cannot win matches. We could understand if you cannot separate the matches from high levels and low levels. However, the fact that Im fighting the same person immediately after that we had just surrendered to, is incredibly frustrating. Free points for them though we guess Sorry if this seems like a rant, we just wanted to make sure the details were out there, in case you put your mind to fixing them. Again, we do really like this game. We probably just wont be battling for a while.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.0072
- Size: 284.15 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Ariel Villafane
Last updated: 19th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Ariel Villafane