Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Explore a modular meadow, evolve specialized ants, harvest larvae and food, battle for territory, and grow the most successful colony.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Modular Board
Build the play area from interchangeable sections that vary between games.
Grid Movement
Move pieces between adjacent spaces on a regular grid.
Map Addition
Expand the playable map by adding new tiles, regions, or spaces.
Hexagon Grid
Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
Read the full game description
March of the Ants: Evolved Edition is a fast-playing 4X strategy game about competing ant colonies. Players explore a modular meadow, extend tunnels, send workers into new tiles, harvest food, hatch larvae, and evolve heads, thoraxes, and abdomens into specialized species. Every expansion of the map creates fresh opportunities and new borders with rival nests. Area control in the meadow and the Great Tunnel rewards timely movement, while centipedes and opposing armies make unattended territory dangerous. The Evolved Edition revises the original 2015 design with updated mechanisms, resting cards, Great Tunnel battles, new graphic design, and wooden ant meeples. Despite the full arc of exploration, expansion, exploitation, and conflict, a game is designed to finish in sixty to ninety minutes. Solo and cooperative rules broaden the package, but the most dramatic stories come from colonies adapting to one another across a crowded living map.
