At Hardcore Droid, we're big fans of Worms. You know, that turn-based strategy series by Team 17? That game has you playing as a team of worms bent solely on the eradication of another team of worms. They’ve got guns, bombs, and all sorts of crazy stuff. It’s really fun.
Anthill is a strategy game about creepy crawly warfare, much like Worms, and I’m sure I’m not the first to draw the comparison. But for all its similarities, Anthill remains a unique strategy game, with plenty of strengths in its own right. Unfortunately, like Team17’s flagship franchise, Anthill’s unforgiving level of difficulty may turn off more casual players.
Rob Pitt writes: Image & Form are well known for their brilliant ‘Steamworld’ franchise, but did you know they also dabbled in a mobile device-only title?
Anthill was released on both android and iOS back in 2011, a game which was so perfectly suited to touchscreen devices, it never got ported to any other system as the control scheme and ease-of-use would be lost in translation.
Sure, a Vita port may have been possible but that handheld is pretty much dead in the water now. However, there is another device you may have heard of which has a touchscreen – the Nintendo Switch.
Games Asylum: "Anthill is a port of a lovely iOS game from 2011. It was made by Image & Form, the creators of the SteamWorld series, so you know right off the bat that it’s going to be excellent."
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