Pocket Ants: Colony Simulator

Name: Pocket Ants: Colony Simulator
Author: Ariel-Games

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Gather resources, improve your nest, make an army, raid other player's colonies.

Pocket Ants: Colony Simulator, an ant strategy game

By Mei-Lin Chua

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Gather resources and carry them back to your nest
Breed worker and soldier ants from your feeding queen
Capture defeated creatures to join your army
Raid other players' colonies for resources and bonus items
A daily fight against the red ants colony for extra items
Clans you can fill by recruiting other players

An ant colony strategy game built around one nest

Pocket Ants is a strategy game in which you run an ant colony from a single nest. The listing calls it a colony simulator, and most of the play is about keeping the nest supplied and making it bigger and stronger over time.

It suits players who like building up a base slowly and competing with other people who are doing the same. Most of the game's activity is organized around the nest, the army and the other colonies.

Building the nest and growing your ant workforce

Workers gather resources and carry them back to the nest. Those resources are used to feed your queen, which lets you breed new worker and soldier ants.

You can also improve the nest's chambers, and the listing says these upgrades give extra bonuses. Feeding and breeding are the steady, repeating loop that the rest of the game builds on.

Capturing creatures and building an army

You defeat other creatures and capture them so they join your army. The listing also says you can collect these creatures and make them stronger over time.

Soldiers and captured creatures are also what you use to defend your resources from enemy ants. The army is therefore both your offense and your protection.

Raiding rival colonies and daily red ant battles

You can raid other players' colonies to take their resources and bonus items. Defending against the same kind of raid is part of the game as well.

Each day you can defeat the red ants colony for extra items. This gives a regular reason to return to the game, separate from raids on other players.

Clans and the developer's community channels

You can recruit other players to join your clan. Clans are the listing's way of linking players together for the raiding and defending parts of the game.

The developer links to official pages on X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and Discord, where players can follow updates and talk about the game.

What's new

Oct 17, 2026

v0.1156
Small changes.
Bug fixes.
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About this APK

The build we hold is Pocket Ants: Colony Simulator 0.1154 (APKS split bundle) for Android 10 and up.

Version: 0.1154; 704
Requires Android: 10+
Target Android: 16

Package ID: com.ariel.zanyants
Format: APKS split bundle
Malware scan: Google Play Protect
Permissions: 18 declared
Signed by: CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
Certificate SHA-256: 13f0c5ed146f8b248cbfeea01ebddae4dc6ea470665512fcb98de12ad326e1cb