Wild Hive - Build & Survive

Studio 42

In-app purchases

About this game

Wild Hive is a bee colony roguelite driven by a ruthless honey market. Grow your hive, hatch a swarm of worker bees, and sell the honey they make on a realistic stock market. The honey quota climbs every year, and the year you miss it, your run is over.

You must send your bees foraging flowers in procedurally-generated locations, from the safety of Bluebell Woods to the rich, risky Alpine Meadows. Bee careful! They might not return home.

Then sell the harvest when the honey price peaks on the stock market.

Under the picture-book art is a deep engine builder. Silo upgrades, Royal Seals, and stock market bets stack into a colony that runs seamlessly, until the wasps come to tear it apart. Workers charge, mercenaries hold the line, and when the last defender falls they go for the Queen. If she dies, so does the colony. Wild Hive offers endless replayability.

Key Features

- Hatch, feed, and put to work a swarm of cute little bees (with huge personality!)
- Grow your hive and configure it with unlimited possible combinations.
- Buy Royal Seals in the shop once a year: permanent modifiers that bend the rules of your run.
- Trade shares in rival hives and lease out your own bees on the RAX (Royal Apiary Exchange).
- Settle 5 biomes, from fishing the Mountain Lake to catching apples in the Juicy Orchards.
- Unlimited levels and 7 tiers of difficulty to unlock. Each one rewrites the rules against you.
- 6 Queen bees to unlock and play as. Each Queen has unique attributes and powers.
- Or ignore the quota entirely in Endless mode and grow the biggest hive you can.

This app contains a free-to-play version of the game. There is an in-app purchase to unlock the full Wild Hive experience.

Ratings and reviews

I've only played a little bit so far, but I really enjoy it. It's just simple enough to pick up quickly, but not too simple that you get bored. I like the artstyle too of the game and the stock market esque selling system. The only problem I've had is the hitbox with the combs, they get really difficult to tap, whether it be to collect the honey or to upgrade them. It makes the combo system difficult, and a little stressful to pull off, but it's not gameplay destroying, just a minor problem.

So, it's a very fun game, however it could use more. I don't see the need to play on harder maps as base map is just fine, I don't see the need to play on anything harder. It would be better if there was a permanent upgrade system. Stuff like more bee health, more nectar collected, etc. Or even having base upgrade tokens and having a better upgrade system with those, like upgrading the overall percentage of the tokens, or an unlocking system for them.

it's fun but it would be nice if there were a constant colony option where you dont have to deal with the stress of not meeting your quota and losing your hive. the gameplay feels more like a roguelike than something that is a colony builder, and there's not really any upgrades that can carry over between games. it's a good framework but more work can be done to make the replayability less repetitive and more fun.