Nominate Empires of the Undergrowth for the Steam Awards

Hello everyone,

The 2025 Steam Awards have begun! Nominations are open, and we’re hoping you’ll support Empires of the Undergrowth by nominating it in the Labor of Love category.

If you’ve been keeping up with our development updates, you know that we’ve released four updates in the last year, including two major updates and two smaller updates.

At the very end of last year, we brought out the Remix update - an entirely new way to play Empires of the Undergrowth by mixing and matching almost any colony creature in the game, in almost any level in the game.

The possibilities are practically endless, and the community had a lot of fun doing things like trapjaw ants alongside big-headed ant supersoldiers and termite majors, in one biology-bending colony.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/463530/view/547847869991747854
Earlier this year came our 1.1 Update, which remastered a whole bunch of graphical assets and brought them kicking and screaming in to 2025. The rainforest biome got a complete makeover, as did all the leafcutter ants, several creatures, and animations. We’re not done with that either; plenty more of those are on the way.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/463530/view/547856285733748802
Alongside 1.1 was the Exploding Ants DLC, which added not only exploding ants (Colobopsis explodens) but exploding termites (Neocapritermes taracua) as well. These species added extra heat to the formicarium and Remix modes, and each one came with its own twist on a rainforest level (The Harvest: Firebreak for the ants, and Front Line: No Ant’s Land for the termites).

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(Side note: those species weren’t invented for the game - they really exist! Granted, the explosions may be exaggerated compared to real life, but still - they’re real critters!)

And More To Come

We’re far from done with our work on Empires of the Undergrowth! You can see our current roadmap here:

Ongoing development for Empires of the Undergrowth has been a labor of love for us, and we’re always excited to see what our players think of each update.

Most importantly, we want to thank you all for your support throughout the last year of Empires of the Undergrowth’s development. It’s been an honor to watch this community grow, and to incorporate your feedback into creating the best game possible.

If you want to show Empires of the Undergrowth some extra love during the Steam Awards, please click the “Nominate” button that’s part of this post and nominate us for the 2025 Labor of Love award.

Thank you again for supporting Empires of the Undergrowth!

– The Slug Disco Team