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A cozy incremental swarm builder focused on honey collection, honeycomb construction, and preparing your bee colony for winter and Queen ascension.

Time Is Honey
A relaxing single-player idle sim about managing bee hives, opening packs to collect unique bees, and upgrading your apiary, with a long collection endgame (reviewer median playtime ~55 hours).
2024-07-30
- Side view
- Simulator

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Bee Island

A lighthearted co-op strategy-sim about building and defending a bee hive, with a median playtime around six hours.

2023-08-25

Action
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Be Queen Bee

A cute, fast-paced single-player action-strategy game where you command a bee swarm with pheromones, capture flower fields, and evolve your hive in a short ~2-hour campaign.

2026-02-04

Action
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Hive

A turn-based tile-laying strategy game where players build the board as they play, offering quick matches with simple rules and deep tactics.

2014-03-20

Shooter
First person
Horror
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Card & Board Game

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The Hive

A single-player strategy game about commanding an insectoid hivemind to build an underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm in a beautiful but hostile underworld.

2016-08-25

Action
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery

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Bee Streamer Idler

A chat-driven idle sim that turns Twitch viewers into bees to gather pollen and build honeycombs together, with an upbeat vibe and short sessions.

2026-06-17

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Hive

A compact single-player tower-defence-like colony sim about researching, building, expanding, and extracting on alien maps, with slow-burn difficulty and unique per-map challenges.

2022-09-14

Strategy
Simulator

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Boss Beek-Beekeeping Simulator

A single-player beekeeping sim about building hives and producing honey, with a promising concept undermined by a missing tutorial and confusing early guidance.

2022-02-03

First person
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Business

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Hive Mind

A short, frantic co-op hive-management game for 1-4 players, about scrambling to fill honey and keep morale up before winter, best enjoyed with friends.

2020-10-27

Action
Third person
Indie
Party

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BeeFense BeeMastered

A single-player, family-friendly hex-grid tower-defense game about defending your beehive fortress from hornets with bee units, resource management, and defense upgrades.

2021-06-24

Action
Warfare
Comedy
Strategy
Fantasy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

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Bee Simulator: The Hive

A casual bee adventure combining pollen collection, jet stream races, and hive defense, with beehive building and solo/co-op/PvP play, praised for being beautiful and educational.

2025-08-04

Action
Adventure
Third person
Simulator
Arcade
Educational

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Beekeeper

A short-session economic strategy sim about beekeeping and honey sales, with charming art but rough Early Access controls.

2019-08-15

Strategy
Indie
Simulator