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Game entry

SimAnt

1991 · Strategy, Simulation · PC, Mac, DOS, Super Nintendo, Amiga · Maxis

After 55 duels settled by the community, SimAnt stands no. 4,606 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,363 ELO points and 31% of wins. In its strongest family it holds position no. 39 out of 45 (1991).

World rank

no. 4,606

ELO score

1,363

Wins

31%

Duels played

55

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About SimAnt

SimAnt is a simulation strategy game which makes you a head of ant colony. There are 3 ways to play SimAnt: Quick Games, Full Games, and Experimental games.
In Quick Games you are a black ant colony competing with a red ant colony for food and territory. Your goal is to defeat the red ants and take over your home turf - the local patch of ground in the backyard. Your task will be complicated by marauding spiders, voracious ant lions, torrential rains, crusing human feet and merciless lawn mowers.

In Full Games you must take over the entire backyard section by section. Then take over the house and drive out the humans. In addition to hordes of red ants and other pests, you will face the chemical death of inescticides

In Experimental Games, you are a human playing and experimenting with ants. Your tools let you build walls and barriers to run ants through mazes, add food, add ants, dig of fill in holes, test ants' reactions to various trail marking and alarm chemicals, and play with insecticide.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,363 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games SimAnt sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 4,603 Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 1,363
  2. 4,604 Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy 1,363
  3. 4,605 Spider-Man: Friend or Foe 1,363
  4. 4,606 SimAnt 1,363
  5. 4,607 SCP: Containment Breach 1,363
  6. 4,608 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 1,363
  7. 4,609 Call of Duty: Mobile 1,362

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The standing

Where SimAnt ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where SimAnt stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 39 out of 45 (1991).

Where SimAnt ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 4,606 5,035
Strategy 313 336
1990s 618 659
1991 39 45

The community

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