Colony sim · Steam

Wild Hive

A bee colony sim driven by a ruthless honey market. Hatch workers, brew honey, and sell it well, because the quota climbs every year. The year you miss it, your run is over.

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Out on Steam 9 November 2026.

Wild Hive key art: a crowned bee in a honeycomb

Build your hive

Shape the hex grid your colony lives in. Every cell is the colour of the honey it makes. Stack matching varieties, then harvest them back to back for combo multipliers.

Play the market

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.

Survive the seasons

Your hive breathes with the weather, and with itself. Crowds make heat, every bee makes breath, hoarded stores make damp. Let a gauge cross the red line and bees die, honey spoils and silos crumble.

Screenshots

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A living hive in full summer flow Assigning forager crews to nectar sites Selling honey at a market peak Defending the hive from a wasp raid Trading on the RAX exchange Thawing frozen nectar in winter Pinning a Royal Seal at year end A late-game megahive

About the game

Your first colony will collapse. Your empire starts with the next one.

Lay brood cells for your queen, raise honey silos, and 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.

Spend your stockpile before it sweats, post fanners on the rim, and keep an eye on the sky. Wasps raid the hive, and when the last defender falls, they go for the Queen.

In the hive

  • A swarm of autonomous bees to hatch, feed and put to work. Every one of them is mortal.
  • Honey silos that grow through 9 levels and 4 types to brew 4 varieties of honey.
  • Up to 3 Royal Seals a year: permanent modifiers that bend the rules of your run.
  • Shares in 5 rival hives, and your workforce for lease on the RAX exchange.
  • 5 biomes to settle, from fishing the Mountain Lake to catching apples in the Juicy Orchards.
  • Honeycomb Clash against a rival queen, and a Meadery for your surplus.
  • Level 30, then 7 tiers of Wax difficulty that rewrite the rules against you.
  • Endless mode, for when you'd rather ignore the quota and build the biggest hive you can.
Developer
Studio 42
Release
9 November 2026
Platforms
Steam: Windows, macOS, Linux
Press
Wild Hive press kit

The quota climbs every year. How long can your hive keep up?

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