Arcade Mode

Arcade mode provides different settings and mechanics for you to play with.

Demo missions

Demo missions are available for free in the current demo version of the game. You should be able to learn basic control and game mechanics here.

• Tutorial

• Critters and The Nest

• Hold Out and Surrounded

• The Crucible

• The Promised Land

Extra missions

Extra missions are made using in-game assets during freetime. They also contain spoilery elements from later story missions so procede at your own risk.

Extra missions have distinctive settings or mechanics and don't follow logics like story missions. You usually aren't allowed to choose playable units before playing. Some extra missions may reward you with new enemies or playable units in custom game.

Missions with tradtional gameplay include:

• Aggrandise

• Babysitting

• Extremis

• The Other Foot

• Excavators

• Occupation and Occupation 2

• Cramped

• The Culling and The Culling 2

• Hibernation

• Adventure

• Firebreak

• No Ant's Land

• Chowder

Missions with more unique gameplay include:

• Tug of War, Tug of War 2 and Tug of War 3

• Enemy of My Enemy and Enemy of My Enemy 2

• Beetles Rise Up!

Battle Arena

You can test creatures against eachother in this mode.

You must click the icons to spawn the respective creatures on the map. You can toggle the number of creatures per click up to 50, level of some creatures and titans up to 3, star-level of any creatures up to 14. You have to manually click the corresponding buttons to switch between left and right side. You can also make the creatures attack either automatically or on command.

Attacking creatures will move to the other side of the map and attack any enemies on their way. They disappear when they reach their destination. You can't remove spawned creatures manually.

You must click and hold the icons of the respective creatures for 5 seconds to spawn uber creatures.

You can only use aggressive creatures that can move freely in this mode.

This mode uses story-mode stats.

Remix missions

You can replay some story missions, extra missions and demo missions in this mode, but this time you have much more options. It doesn't affect your story-mode save files and you can't earn achievements this way.

You can choose between difficulty settings as usual. You can toggle new game plus level of each mission up to 10. You can use either story-mode stats or custom-game-mode stats.

You can use your story-mode gene-thief ant colonies or customize your own colonies.

• You can only play as custom leafcutter ant colonies if harvestable plants are available.

• You can only play as custom termite colonies if lignocellulose is available.

• You can play as any omnivorous custom ant colonies in other missions and adopt the respective omnivorous or termitivorous lifestyle.

• You can only play as custom fire ant colonies if floating bridges are required.

• You can use some workers in remix tug-of-war missions but they can't do nest jobs.

• You can play as any custom species in remix Chowder.

Trivia

• You can't use fire ant workers and big-headed ant minors in Battle Arena even though they have different stats from normal workers.