Jet Ant

Jet Ant is a ripoff of Lunar Lander (copyright Atari, 1979). The game features low poly art and a "micro" theme as apparently someone put an ant in a lunar lander thing and the ant is not only okay with this but wants to go flying over numerous milk cartons that have been left on the bench. PUT THE BLOODY MILK BACK IN THE FRIDGE WHEN YOU FINISH USING IT. I digress. Gameplay is basically the same as Lunar Lander, you have a fuel guage, no fuel, no more thrust, and you can just propel yourself with the lander engines and steer left or right a bit. Physics is not your friend here. We all know this game, it's 44 years old. While you get 4K support, there's little in the way of graphics tweaks and little in the way of graphics to improve anyway. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with. The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason. Jet Ant is relatively cheap at around $1.50 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

Addicting and challenging fun. Reminds me of the old school games that hook from the start.

love this game

Still haven't made it to level 2 wtf is this game

We had an EXCELLENT time playing this game! This is an amusing and challenging way to spend an afternoon. There is definitely a learning curve and you probably shouldn't get too emotionally attached to your ants. Watch our experience here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldZxCXGiW4&fbclid=IwAR0n4j5ml5klzj75neEfiB_E9JaqfmyfrIZy2j6d8hYJbQiQyHceB87ryi8

I've had a blast with this game so far even though I did eventually get pretty frustrated with it. It's kind of addictive trying to get the ant to the end of the level without crashing or burning up all of your fuel. It has a system in place where you can change the weight of the jet and what happens when you crash but for everything you change it affects other parts of gameplay so there's enough variety there for you to find a version of the craft that works for you in my opinion. All in all, it doesn't have a ton of content but the content that is there is pretty fun and addictive so I'm going to go ahead and recommend it. If you're still on the fence, I've uploaded a gameplay video to Youtube (I broke my spine many, many times in this video) so you can watch it and decide for yourselves if this is something you might want to try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN_4PE9a14k

The bravery this ant shows to not only leave the colony, but to pack up his things, build his own ship and fully comitting to the future that he sees for himself. It had me emotional from start to finish. $1.95 to watch an ant with a heart of gold put himself first.

love this game. one of my favorites.