
Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration. Unique gameplay for each species! Currently featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and other iconic creatures. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles coming soon!
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Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar aims to be the most comprehensive nature simulation ever made!
From Mantis & Monarch,
To Jumping Spiders & Blue Butterflies!
And Ladybugs & Grasshoppers too!

Experience Nature as you've never seen it before!
Built as a micro-scale 3D simulation (accurate to millimeter scale), this game takes you right down to life at the level of the tiniest life forms in our world!
Spawn as a tiny Monarch Butterfly egg smaller than a pinhead.
Grow and metamorphose into a glorious winged adult!

Spawn as a Jumping Spider inside a Silken Egg Sac, guarded by your mother.
Balloon through the Skies on a strand of silk, as you scour the lands, looking for prey!
Spawn as a tiny Praying Mantis born high and deep inside a massive, living "Tree World"
Grow and explore the massive tree for prey. Finally - Grow wings and fly in search of a mate!
... and so many more!
Lifecycles Mode
In Lifecycles mode players control an animal species from birth all the way upto its maturity.
Predator gameplay involves high-speed hunting and movement for continued survival, while Prey gameplay involves feeding and hiding from predators.
After reaching adulthood, players experience a unique Mating & Reproduction act for each species The entire lifecycle then repeats itself again with a new egg and a new gender.
Praying Mantis Lifecycle
Jumping Spider Lifecycle
Monarch Butterfly Lifecycle
Common Blue Butterfly Lifecycle
Ladybug Lifecycle
Grasshopper Lifecycle
More species yet are featured in other game modes like Survival Sim (see below).
Survival Sim Mode
Survival Sim mode features elements of Survival without any emphasis on the Lifecycle of a species itself and is great for jumping straight in (no pun intended, in case of the Jumping Spider!) into your favorite species for a quick game.
Face Off Mode
"Face Off" is a brawler type one-on-one confrontation with another species, be it predator or prey.
Create & Design Nature Mode
Under Sandbox genre, the game features a unique "Create & Design, Nature" mode.
Players control a Sandbox map where they can add new plants, animals & props and control the flow of time. The Sandbox mode is extremely powerful and allows players to effectively create new scenarios and experience them as their chosen creatures.
Planetary Ecology Mode
This is essentially a 3D painting mini-game which allows players to paint biomes (as terrrain) over a planetary sphere. Simple educational narratives on Planetary Ecology are also included as part of this mode.
Under Fantasy, the game features a "Creature Quests" mode. These are unique adventure type quests with Steam Leaderboards for fastest time.
Currently these quests are available for the Jumping Spider and Ladybug species.
Finally, under Casual genre, the game features a "Free Exploration" mode.
Free Exploration allows players to leverage the game's powerful Random Map "Ecology Editor" to explore new random maps at their own pace, without the pressure of survival thrust upon them.
Procedural World Generation
Random Map generation is available for all game modes, players also get to enter their own "Random Seed to create potentially infinite variations of each time for endless replay value!
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Stats
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
It's a great game, and the lifecycles are even better, you can play as so many things! from Parasitic Wasps to Spiders, from Dragonflies to Ladybugs, from praying mantis to butterflies! this game overall is a great demonstration on how things may actually work in the wild, not only that but it's a very enjoyable experience, sure there may be some glitches in the life cycles (Such as the Jumping spider's lifecycle.) but i am sure that it will be fixed, overall, the rest of the game is just...fantastic!
game is good, does suffer from slight performance issues only experienced this during pupate but otherwise great simulator and follows real life insect life stages.
Came in for the buglife, received oddly detailed entymology education.
I got to be a cute fuzzy butterfly
This is one of the best games I have ever played. But when are the birds coming? Not trying to be pushy, btw, :)
this game is amazing honest 8 out of 10 i feel it is a bit overpriced though if i knew what this game was I would buy it for at most $15 not $22 but still it is an amazing game and is only in early access so it will get better over time.
i cant get past the "explore the egg sac" life goal on peacock jumping spider how do i get past it. it's cool on quick survival tho
One of the best insect games I ever played
Nature And Life - Drunk On Nectar is a serene delight! Its lush, vibrant visuals and calming soundtrack immerse you in a bee’s gentle world. Collecting nectar feels meditative, with smooth mechanics that make every flight joyful—pure, peaceful gaming magic.
I'll be honest, I've no idea when or how I ended up with this game. It's been a nice change of pace from what I usually play & I've learned several interesting facts about bug lifecycles. There is some jank, and gameplay loop can be very repetitive, but bug's lives are repetitive so 9.6/10 for accuracy.
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