Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture (surround) the opposing Queen Bee.
Features:
- Play locally or online.
- Play against the Computer - AI with five difficulty levels.
- Includes "hot-seat"/"pass-n-play" mode for players with who want to share one mouse/keyboard or gamepad.
- Full 3D with camera-control
- Switch seamlessly between playing with mouse/keyboard and gamepad.
- Dozens of Steam Stats & Achievements.
- Same expansions as table-top version: the Pillbug, the Ladybug, and the Mosquito expansions are available as DLC.
- Each expansion can be turned on/off for any individual game. Play with these pieces online even if your opponent does not own the expansions! (they will also get to use the expansions during the game)
- Asynchronous play - you can play even when your opponent is offline.
- The Hive board game is a winner of many awards including "Mensa Select", "Dr. Toy: Product of Excellence", "Spiele Hits", "International Gamers Awards", and "Juego del año".
While we were making Khet 2.0 (also on Steam), we built a Group Chat into the Online Game Screen so that players can see who else is currently online, hanging around.
Since we wrote one engine that powers both Hive and Khet, it was easy to pull that back into Hive!
We also made a bunch of other fixes, so here's an overview of the fixes to Hive that we made over the last several weeks and released tonight (and remembered to write down ;)):
- Redesign Online Game Menu with a new Group Chat and member-list
- Made the progress bar update in real-time (it was too jumpy before)
- Fix the initial Loading progress bar (it went to 50% then back to 25%).
- Made the loading time slightly faster
- If you press "Home" key to set the camera back to the default position, it won't spin around in a bunch of circles to get there (even if you've spun the camera to get to where you were).
- Disabling sound in windows was causing the game not to boot for some users.
- Made the "Play Hive Like a Champion" links in the credits actually open a link (instead of just being text).
- Turned all links in Credits into clickable links.
This is a free update and was released tonight on PC, Mac, and Linux. If you don't have it right away, restart Steam and that will force it to check for updates.
Thanks for being Hive players! If you haven't checked out our other game Khet 2.0 , you should have a coupon in your inventory for it. Please keep giving us more feedback & stay tuned as all of our games continue to improve!
Minimum Setup
- OS: glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit
- Processor: 1 gHzMemory: 512 MB RAM
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+ w/ GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Recommended Setup
- OS: glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit. S3TC texture support
- Processor: 2 gHzMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3+Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available space
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