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Wild Hive press kit
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Factsheet
- Game
- Wild Hive
- Developer
- Studio 42
- Release date
- 9 November 2026
- Platforms
- Steam: Windows, macOS, Linux
- Price
- TBA
- Engine
- Godot 4
- Steam page
- store.steampowered.com/app/4864810
- Trailer
- youtube.com/watch?v=kOZoqbel0hM (free to embed)
- Press contact
- support@stud42.com
Description
Wild Hive is a bee colony sim driven by a ruthless honey market. Hatch workers, brew honey, and sell it well, because the quota climbs every year, and the year you miss it, your run is over.
Lay brood cells for your queen, raise honey silos, and shape the hex grid your colony lives in. Every cell is the colour of the honey it makes: buy your way to matching varieties, then harvest them back to back for combo multipliers. Send workers on nectar runs, from the safety of Bluebell Woods to the rich, risky Alpine Meadows. Every trip is a bet on yield against the odds of coming home.
Honey has one price, and it never sits still. Ride the booms, dodge the crashes, and sell at the peak to clear the year's quota before winter runs out. Your hive breathes with the weather, and with itself: crowds make heat, every bee makes breath, and a hoarded store makes damp. Post fanners on the rim, spend your stockpile before it sweats, and let a gauge cross the red line and bees die, honey spoils, silos crumble. Wasps raid the hive, and when the last defender falls, they go for the Queen.
Your first colony will collapse. Your empire starts with the next one.
Features
- Hatch, feed, and put to work a swarm of autonomous bees. Every one of them is mortal.
- Grow honey silos through 9 levels and 4 types to brew 4 varieties of honey.
- Pin up to 3 Royal Seals a year: permanent modifiers that bend the rules of your run.
- Trade shares in 5 rival hives and lease out your workforce on the RAX exchange.
- Settle 5 biomes, from fishing the Mountain Lake to catching apples in the Juicy Orchards.
- Outplay a rival queen at Honeycomb Clash, or ferment your surplus into mead at the Meadery.
- Reach level 30, then climb 7 tiers of Wax difficulty that rewrite the rules against you.
- Or ignore the quota entirely in Endless mode and grow the biggest hive you can.
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