![]() ![]() Early training showcases how to fly, get around the hive, collect pollen, an easy function as it requires simply flying through the ring that hangs above flowers with pollen – various flowers have different amount of pollen, signalled by their colour during bee vision, a sort of first-person hint vision. The way the game is presented feels like it could be used in schools, aiming at a younger audience to educate and also have something to entertain – it’s nice to see something like this in the video game, an area where a lot of kids are invested in.Īs for the game itself, it begins with the player taking control of a fresh new honey bee in third person, even giving it a name before starting its journey into the world and learning how to get around. The introduction finishes by telling us that people are noticing the decline and are trying to help fight through science, looking into how we can help the bee, ending on a note that we can all aid bees pollinating by learning about them and spreading the word. It then goes on to note that bees have been in decline in various countries for many reasons – natural predators (bears), and human dangers that we have thrown into the mix, such as pesticides. When starting a new game an introduction narrates how bees are the most important pollinator that pollinate almost 100 crop types, and without those bees, a lot of things would not exist. As for which hive Bee Simulator sits in, well, it is aiming to inform the player the life of a bee, but I would not call it a simulator as such, more of a game that wants to share knowledge of the importance of bees for our planet and what bees get up to during their life.īee Simulator wants to tell everyone how key bees are to our ecosystem. ![]() Just a quick search on something like Steam brings back over 2,000 results, featuring serious games like Euro Truck Simulator 2, Farming Simulator 19 and Bus Simulator 18, but then there are the games that take the mickey out of the word simulator – Goat Simulator, Shower With Your Dad Simulator and Surgeon Simulator just to give a few examples. Games with simulator in their title have lost some meaning over the years due to the overuse of the word. I can say the team at Varsav Game Studios is not going for the same market with Bee Simulator, as it tries to stay a bit more true to the activities of a bee. The last time I played as a bee in a video game it was the year 1998, the game was a third-person shooter that had a kick-ass menu theme and featured a bee with a arsenal of various weapons to blow up mutated insects – it was Buck Bumble. ![]()
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