Empire of the Ants May Be the Most Photorealistic Game on PS5 | Push Square

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Empire of the Ants, for those who don’t know, is an old-school real-time strategy game which first launched in 2000 for PC. In this PS5 reboot, publisher Microids is partnering with developer Tower Five to create what might be one of the most photorealistic PS5 titles to date. Seriously, this is pushing Unreal Engine 5 to its absolute limits.

The press release hints that “players will crawl across a microscopic world of epic proportions to help a colony prosper through their tactical genius”. There’ll be ample tutorials for newcomers to get to grips with the challenges of controlling a colony, but also “scalable difficulty and advanced mechanics for veteran players”.

“The game features a narrative that follows the rhythm of the seasons and affects wildlife attributes such as speed, resistance, buffs, and more,” the summary continues. “The maps in the game will also change depending on the time of day.” There’s no firm release date just yet, but the developer’s targeting a 2024 launch.

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I just hope the dev takes their time so the game doesn’t launch with a lot of bugs.

This looks incredible. I might get this, even if it's just to fool everyone in thinking they are watching a documentary.

Yeah, really interesting concept. Hope there is plenty of depth, not just a tech demo with shallow strategy bolted on

@koverby Ha!

In a sea of uncreative, shallow, terribly written, terribly playing «AAAA» games from Ubisoft, games like these actually take risk and deserve to be supported

I had a game on the DS called Ant Nation and loved it, this looks like an upgraded version so definitely keeping this on my radar, although, I may just get the PC