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Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Microtopia is a colony sim, automation and procedural generation game
developed by Cordyceps Collective
and published by Goblinz Publishing and Gamirror Games.
Released on February 18th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 675 reviews of which 589 were positive and 86 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 13.99€ on Instant Gaming.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: i7-6700 / Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: RTX 2060 / RX 5600
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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TL;DR: Wait for a blueprint/copy-paste update and other QOL features. Early game is extremely fun but late game without those features is pure insanity of micromanagement. Insanely addictive and frustrating at the same time. Whole concept is unique and interesting; the visuals, path layouts, the tech tree all convincingly convey the feeling that you're taking care of an ant colony. Constant optimisation of your factory-colony is required as resources are not infinite. But that's the whole beauty of this game: trying to find a delicate balance in your colony whilst progressing through the tech tree and expanding on other islands. Even your ants do not last forever, requiring you to find new ways to correctly re-cycle ants to maximise their work time and to not lose valuable resources. A novel and satisfying mechanic. That being said... once you hit mid-game, the game falls apart. You'll be constantly micro-managing your colony. With new tech unlocked, you need to upgrade your colony, your ants, your layout. Most of the time it'd be easier to strip down your colony and rebuild - but try doing that over and over again without any blueprint or copy/paste mechanic. There is none in this game. It's a huge overlook from devs, considering that it's all about rebuilding your factory to adjust to missing resources/new tech. First 20h was fine but then I was personally tired of re-creating the same loops over and over, again and again. I wanted to try optimising my existing layouts or create the best loop for getting acid (you'll be cursing acid in the end-game; way too unoptimised resource). But I was constantly struggling to move my existing paths to get to more resources or try to manage colony layout to squeeze new facilities in. On top of that, you'll be struggling with space from mid-game. You've put a new section of factory that is two dots off? Or you unlocked new facility and need to squeeze it in already tight space? Tough luck, you need to move every single line and facility manually. Optimisation is also a struggle as game gives you some indication how long things will take to process and what is the quantity of the output - once you get your ant in to process the resources. So you need to use a notepad or better, an Excel sheet, to keep track of everything and calculate how much do you need of resource X to process to Y to get to the final product Z. To some extent, calculating everything is part of factory games but personally I found it frustrating that I had to get the ant in to start processing resources to have an idea how long it'd take for it to process the resource. And considering that the game is quite new, there is no Wiki to help you out with the details. Again, another QOL feature that is a must-have and is missing from this game. Still, it's very fun and addictive game. I hit 100% achievements within a week. Didn't complete the tech tree as I was already losing my mind from late-game micro-management but I'll be definitely coming back to this game - if the devs introduce blueprints. If no blueprints are introduced within a year of this review though, read this review as a negative one: whilst it's a fun game at the beginning, late game without blueprints is not worth the frustration.
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I have played the game a lot in the last times. Especially in early/mid game is great. And I loved it! So many ways to organize your ants and to make standalone colonies... The problems lie later in the Game. Especially when reaching the acid. It needs way to much resources to make the acid and it is used in way to much recipies. Also on the Acid Island there is hardly enough of the ingredients, also no good way of mining them (miners get infected). With all recoureces on the Island you can only build around 300 Acid? in some recepies 3 Acids are used. Also each advanced research point needs 5 Acid. I can not even research everything i have visible in my tech tree with is. How is this supposed to work? Also I had some bugs especially in the Late game: - When producing Resistors: If 2 diods are in the assembler it is not possible to insert a casing => machine needs to be deconstructed. => very anoing to work around - If concrete Block is moved it looses its function. Needs to be de- and reconstructed. - Tesla tower did not work for me. I needed to de- and reconstruct is. Cost me quite a while to figur out! Also some more sugestions: - Add some bigger copper ores. It is anoing to always need to reposition everything - Add copy Past of modules - Add Back button (if you accidentally moved a track just undo it). - Add some more logic gates (e.g. Gate that opens if i certain cast reaces a certain amount (either on island or in total). - Unlock storage Gate earlyer. - better description what the Ion-Ant dose I still havn´t figured it out. Overall loved the game for a very long time but stopt because of the very anoying acid mechanics.
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What a gem.. i thought hmm looks good lets try it for 1 hour and 50 minutes and return it...... 35 hours later, i just cannot leave my hive. The game never crashes even with 200+ ants. I'm 1/3 of the tech-tree now. I love the drones flying around and several queens took of in flights. The name of the game does not lie, its microtopia. So you have to do a lot at micromanagement, but you can also automate a lot. Keep flying around the islands to make sure every little loop has enough ants or no ants if stockpiles are full. I keep coming up with more effective ways to make the loops and trails more productive. Just dive in, you won't regret it!
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Big fan of logistics games , think factorio is at 1100 hours and satisfactory around 400? and the main mechanic of your workers being your conveyor belt, combined with the mechanics of their lives being limited, but able to be expanded via combination and recycling makes for a interesting loop of resources and population management. Well worth a try if you like Factorio, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere and the like.
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Absolutely Love this game. Mechanics are very easy, but can easily be incorporated Into very sophisticated designs. My only issue is, when you advance the tech tree, you need inventor points, which on its own is not to difficult, but you have to manually click the inventor ants. It would be nice to he able to automate that. And when you want to unlock other things in the tech tree, you need yellow diamonds, but I cant figure out how to get them and the game doesn’t tell you. Any help?
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Microtopia is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Microtopia is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Microtopia received 589 positive votes out of a total of 675 achieving a rating of 8.20.
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Microtopia was developed by Cordyceps Collective and published by Goblinz Publishing and Gamirror Games.
Microtopia is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Microtopia is not playable on MacOS.
Microtopia is not playable on Linux.
Microtopia is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Microtopia. Explore additional content available for Microtopia on Steam.
Microtopia does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Microtopia does not support Steam Remote Play.
Microtopia is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Cordyceps Collective
Publisher
Goblinz Publishing,
Gamirror Games
Release
18 Feb 2025
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