Welcome to Monarchies.io! Immerse yourself in a dynamic top-down, real-time, free-for-all strategy game where you take on the role of a queen honey bee. Your mission is to build and nurture your hive, lay eggs, and efficiently assign tasks to your loyal worker bees.
Gameplay Overview:
- Navigate using your mouse to direct your queen, or use the arrow keys for precise movements.
- Create a hive by clicking the New Hive button (Hotkey: 2).
- To lay eggs, select a nearby hive cell and click Lay Egg (Hotkey: 3).
- Foragers will venture out to collect pollen and nectar, bringing valuable resources back to the hive.
- Nurse bees care for the brood, feeding them bee bread made from collected pollen, transitioning them into new workers.
- Builders consume honey to construct new hive cells, expanding your colony.
- Activate alarm pheromones by clicking Attack (Hotkey: 4) to send your workers into battle against rival bees, mites, and incoming wasps.
- Beware of Varroa mites! These pesky parasites can hitch a ride on your workers, threatening your brood's survival.
- Nurse bees can groom and remove mites from your workers or you can command your workers to attack and eliminate the threat.
- Create an account by clicking on Login in the main menu and entering your email and password.
- Logged-in players can collect honey by clicking Eat Honey. Use honey to unlock new bee species and skins, including bumblebees, cat bees, violet bees, and blue bees!
Expert Tips:
- Start in solo mode against AI-controlled bumble bees. Observing their strategies can significantly enhance your gameplay skills.
- Pupae born belong to the nearest queen at their hatch time—be vigilant against rival queens and claim them for your own.
- Maximize pollen collection by placing hives atop flowers, ensuring a steady flow of resources for your workers.
- Before launching an attack, enable Swarm mode to gather your workers efficiently.
- Remember to activate attack mode when wasps are nearby; your workers won’t engage unless commanded.
- Eliminate invading mites before they can reproduce in your hive—communication and strategy are key!
Join the hive and prove that you are the ultimate queen bee in Monarchies.io!