The Hive

7.13更新 这游戏已经加入中文，并且看得出来作者很听劝并且在尝试优化现有内容 虽然没有达到足够理想的结果但是在变好，游戏引导一下子豁然开朗了 这个值得好评 ------------------------------------------------------- 从结论来说，我很希望这是个rts，但恐怕它不是，至少并不传统。这是一个很有新意和想法的游戏，但截至目前仍存在大量基础交互问题并且需要进一步完善其内容。 本来没有写这个的打算，但是很意外作为一个2016年的老游戏，他居然还能在2025年底发布更新，开发者依然活跃并且查看评测内容并回复，值得肯定。很好奇我写的这个东西能不能被开发者看见并且回应 先说类型，这个游戏很明显借鉴了暴雪系的rts并且尝试融入一部分特征进去，但内核完全不属于即时战略的概念，更像是披着即时战略皮肤的剧情探索玩法的游戏，含有很多解密要素和剧情推进要素，并且和玩家同等的其他含有运营对抗的敌对方派系系统存在感非常低下，我很难形容他究竟应该算什么类型。 其次，这个游戏最大的问题在于他目前为止很多用户系统交互效率非常低下，UI不完善得像个半成品，用户小地图系统几乎没法正常使用，必须鼠标中键调整到垂直往上时才能勉强定位准确。单位交互选择兵种的过程非常卡手，并且缺乏大量必需的快捷键（F2在哪？ 编队显示在哪？道具系统怎么打开？很多东西都没有找到途径），有些资源目前依然没搞清楚获取途径，含有基因图标的资源如何获取并未给出说明和指导，这使得很多生产建筑和单位的选项看上去像个摆设 从这一点来说，我更认为这个游戏像是Demo，而不应该是正式发售的游戏。 另一个问题是，商店标注了该游戏含有多语言支持，包括中文，但实际打开后并未提供中文（Chinese.）支持，设置页面也没语言选择选项。我不知道商店页面标注的支持中文语言是怎么回事。 由于语言不通并且我外语不是很好，剧情我没有仔细阅读，文案感觉有一点谜语人，此项不做深入评价。 在游戏体验中，单位的寻敌很奇怪，对农民攻击的优先级似乎高于正常兵种，前期单位质量偏低，实际中我会认为唯一好用的兵种是基础远程单位，因为能靠风筝死敌方单位，并且我发现最有效的打法其实是插防御塔，通过拉仇恨让敌方单位寻路过来然后无视防御塔被风筝磨死，这个过程非常无聊并且缺乏趣味。单位似乎具备等级升星系统但成长起来同样需要时间。大部分时候游戏过程其实是探索环境和试错过程，很漫长，如果非常无聊并且想要打发时间的话我觉得很适合你的需求。 总的来说，美术风格是我唯一感兴趣的部分，哪怕有些细节表现依然不尽人意。玩法和完成度都相当不尽人意，希望开发者有心的话能把游戏地基打好再往上构筑内容。

Initially couldn't progress past great wastelands. Demo worked fine, but then got stuck as soon as I tried the purchased version. After some trial/error and looking at the walkthrough I was able to get going again. Recommend yes for $10. Dev is responsive and I'm looking forward to the more polished version.

O jogo é bem interessante e simples e possui 3 modos de dificuldade: Normal, difícil e Insano. Achei o jogo bem otimizado e para ficar perfeito só faltou uma legenda em PT-BR, mesmo assim recomendo para quem curte o estilo de jogo RTS. Confira a gameplay do jogo no meu canal do Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGch4UneVwU

还不错，虫族大军指挥起来很有感觉，代入感很强玩到，就是后面像是dota

The last time I played a new real-time strategy game… well, yesterday actually. But before that, it had been at least ten years. Anyway – I gave The Hive a try. It’s not a bad game. Imagine taking the style and atmosphere of WarCraft 3 (plus the light RPG elements), then making the playable race almost a 100% copy of the Zerg, and you’ve got The Hive. Unfortunately, there’s no multiplayer or skirmish mode – only a PvE campaign. Still, it’s fairly well put together, with a story and some mission variety. If only the units weren’t complete one-to-one copies of the damn Zerg. Right now the game is just €5 on Steam, and at that price it’s a steal. But once the offer’s gone, the price jumps to €20 – which is way too much for a game that, at best… is just “okay.” Video: https://youtu.be/IlYGNb95uYI

I hate to give this game a bad review because it is charmingly weird. Yes it's jank but it's engaging jank. My biggest problem with the game is how zoomed in the camera is even when it's zoomed out as far as it can go. It makes the game feel claustrophobic and not in a good way. It also makes selecting units from another location a slog. Yes you can click on the minimap, but I prefer to quickly move the camera to where the units are and the system they have in place just does not make that efficient. If the camera as I described it does not bother you there is a fun game to be found here. It's an indie game for sure. Don't expect anything mind blowing but it does play well and I can't fault it for not being original. Weird, but original. I hope they fix the camera, I really do.

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[strike]hey, chinese come on my baby. 来个中文我的宝。[/strike] Ach need chinese too. 成就也需要中文。 202408，steam，steam掉卡抵扣，它处自定义包入的本体约5元。 爱人如己，目前就这，看以后追评。

How to explain this. I like the game, it was a fun experience. Is it good? Kinda, its a very close 6/10 when it comes to the game itself. The story was complete garbage, with an advisor that I felt they missed the mark with, at the end. I would have loved a twist that would explain why he knows everything. But they went the safe route with an endgame boss that left so much more to give. The RPG aspect of the game was really not good. Sure your units can level up, but its only for the map, which makes it just useless overall sure they get stronger, but the next map they still goes back to 1 when you craft them again. (Hero units should have exp/lvl carried over. Then we come to the equipments. No point in them after 5 maps, I dissolved everything for DNA just to increase my overall stats for every unit instead of just making 1 or 7 units stronger. The idea is great, but I felt it should have been that instead of upgrading your units with buildings, you upgrade the whole DNA strand with equipments. For example take the Light infantries, you want to give them more health? Give them armor and everyone gets more. And instead of having like 6 gears for each unit, you could have made that you can have 3 (and 6 types could still be there) But you could equip any 3 (not of the same type) and buff the corresponding unit. This would give the “rpg” a more feeling of you actually making the army as what the game kinda tried to imply. There is no real stratergy, in the game either. You can micro which I don’t really mind. The medics do heal, but the amount is just not close to what the enemies do in later maps. Just build Wasps and or Hunters, kinda the only thing you need Best way is just to go around with a worker, and building hives (hives gives an AOE heal to everything and also replenish unit that dies) Which makes Medics useless. This too could have been an awesome thing in the equipment, having that you could get the medics to have a chain heal etc. But alas, there is not. I do like the overall gameplay, it was fun. There is a lot of bugs in the game but im so used to them that they don’t even bother me anymore. (I get them in every game I play, and a lot of them) For example building more then 2 burrows (unit cap increase) might bug the cap counter and lock you out from getting any more at all. Which could be fixed by reloading the save or just restarting which sucks. But after I noticed it I only built 1 building at a time and not 3-9 that I often do in RTS The thing that made me by the game was that It gave me Impossible Creature vibes with the “Harvest DNA from defeated enemies to unlock new units, abilities and stratergies.” This however is just the games item dissolve feature. Its a shame, but what to do. I know its a lot of negative things, but the game itself was fun, its just a shame that the achivements didn’t work for me, Not a single one. And I might comeback to the game when they work, to finish it on the hardest one. Overall it was a fun experience with so much potential that shows, but the devs really not having a real way to go, instead it felt they have just added things because they like them in other games, but not really wondering how it all shall work together.

I am mostly frustrated, however I want to support indie RTS as it is now not so popular genre to make and play. I still have some fun So to start from negative things Lack of information: player really needs a notification that resource pile is depleted, building completed and button to select idle workers, that is just basic QoL features. Also might also create some yielding structures to gather resources at slower pace, but infinitely I can't tell whether water is obstacle or path. It looks similar, but I have no clear idea whether I can go there or expect something from there Why there is a flying unit which technically does not fly Some better tutorial would be nice, but I kinda enjoyed figuring things on my own Please draw Queen aura radius Early pick and click tasks pissed me off, as some objects blend to much and I've spend to much time finding pixel on the half of the map, really?.. Mixed feelings about army: I expected some more passive skills or bonuses as game progresses, but it is mostly just 3 tiers of attack and def. And army feels very disbalanced, basic striking unit is the best, they Zerg rush everything with queen buff without any problem (playing on hard). I wish to see some more interesting bonuses, not just stats buffing, like CnC has: 1 lvl - increased rate of fire, 2 - autoheal, 3 - increased damage (with some unique bonuses for special units). Why not give +1 unit to pack on level 3 or 5? Or more abilities for Queen as you level up her, there is even no cd reduction. Units have weak identity, i often confuse Queen for Rhino and workers blend in, but binding solves it Plot is quite straigh-forward, so nothing bad or good about it I liked that RTS finally has tech tree for campaign, that you don't need to re-discover everything Very good fast pace of missions, everything builds quickly and worker summon is excellent idea to fix late game logistics problems Interesting inventory and item system, which allows to customize units Tech tree is available from mission one, so you are free to experiment and try anything you want, also maps are nice to explore, but later missions start to feel empty No need to build stockpiles for proxies Overall cute design of buildings and units So... overall I expected more development from DNA or swarm thing, which assimilates new species to fill the niche, but no. I think its fine for its price and hope devs will improve it with a new DLC update