IndependANT

Short game that has a good enough premise, but doesn't really stick the landing. I enjoyed the ant puns but the gameplay is unengaging and the controls leave much to be desired.

good

Charming little game. It only takes a few minutes to get everything if you know where to go. The bugsnax music after every big food claimed was great. Really reminds me that I want more of that and hope these guys have a good sequel cooking up as that was my first PS5 game that left a great impression besides the pack in Astrobot game. A few extra abilities would be cool to explore as some ants have wings irl so a gliding section would be kinda cool. Like work on that fire bit a little more and you can create thermal plumes to ride and go explore new areas. The throwing mechanic could have been used like the Half Life 2 seesaw puzzle where you could have tipped over the entire box of cereal to have a huge feast for the ants. Lots of possibilities to explore here as I think this concept has potential to be a full, buyable game at some point.

i finished bugsnax two years ago and still think about it regularly (i replaced "love shack" lyrics for "bugsnax" & it's permanently seared into my brain meat now) so now i'm playing the free range games. there's a lot of heart in these, they're silly quick games. the team knows a lot about ant politics. this game makes me wish i could make games.

Its small but a pun AND A GAME? Now we are taking. (free too!)

completed within 30 mins, for a free game would be nice to have multiple levels otherwise it pretty much feels like a demo rather then a game, took about 10 mins into the game to start enjoying it but shortly after that i compleated it