History VideoGame / DrunkOnNectar

Drunk On Nectar - The Nature Simulator is a Steam early access game developed by [[IndieGame indie dev]] Venugopalan Sreedharan via Unreal Engine.

Drunk On Nectar - The Nature Simulator is a Steam early access game developed by [[IndieGame indie dev]] Venugopalan Sreedharan via Unreal Engine. It features several different modes such as sandbox, survival, and a 1v1 duel against a chosen AI competitor. However its main attraction is its lifecycles feature, which allows the player character to experience the life of a tiny invertebrate from birth and through metamorphosis. Prior to its final conception, the game had already gone through various genre shifts; for a time it was intended as a eusocial bee simulation game and even developed as a tactical racing game set in a greenhouse for much of its early existence.

* SceneryPorn: The default map layout is a vibrant garden, and customizable further via sandbox mode. Maps can also generate pristine lakes and huge mountain ranges, although the latter usually requires some changed settings.

* SceneryPorn: The default map layout is a vibrant garden, and customizable further via sandbox mode. Depending on your settings, maps can also generate pristine lakes and huge mountain ranges.

Drunk On Nectar - the Nature Simulator is a Steam early access game developed by [[IndieGame indie dev]] Venugopalan Sreedharan via Unreal Engine. It features several different modes such as sandbox, survival, and a 1v1 duel against a chosen AI competitor. However its main attraction is its lifecycles feature, which allows the player character to experience the life of a tiny invertebrate from birth and through metamorphosis. Prior to its final conception, the game had already gone through various genre shifts; for a time it was intended as a eusocial bee simulation game and even developed as a tactical racing game set in a greenhouse for much of its early existence.

* Leitmotif: The soundtrack is based around various aspects of nature, with themes befitting for certain creatures or phenomena.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The kismet of any spider unlucky enough to be caught and paralyzed by a blue mud dauber wasp.
* FourLeggedInsect: The viceroy and monarch butterflies. Justified, seeing as in real life these two species tend to fold their front legs away and out of use.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: In lifecycles mode, your spider mother and siblings are this. Spiders as a whole will also peacefully mingle with other critters so long as they're neither a predator nor a prey item.
* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Early instars are almost always incredibly tiny when compared to their final form.
* GracefulInTheirElement: Primarily airborne insects are much slower when perched. The dragonfly in particular is a top predator in the air, but can only do so much as flounder on land and is easily picked off once grounded.
** In contrast, ladybugs and tiger beetles are agile and quick on their feet but can only fly for a short span of time before tiring. Grasshoppers are somewhere inbetween: unable to run properly or fly extensively, so they launch themselves from plant to plant.
* MeleeATrois: The dragonfly, tiger beetle, and jumping spider each play a part of a 3-sided rivalry, serving as both predator and prey for each other.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Japanese tiger beetles are notable for this especially, as they're able to take down a huge variety of prey regardless of size.
* PrettyButterflies: The monarch and viceroy.
* SceneryPorn: The default map layout is a vibrant garden, and customizable further via sandbox mode. Depending on your settings, maps can also generate pristine lakes and huge mountain ranges.
* TheParalyzer: The blue wasp's hunting strategy revolves around this method.
* TheSwarm: Ants are this on a smaller scale. Teams of them can be found patrolling the undergrowth and defending the mealybugs that they feed on from possible threats.

* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Spiders, butterflies, and grasshoppers are all significantly smaller in their early instars.

[[caption-width-right:350:"To be drunk on nectar, to flutter in the skies, joyous, unafraid"]]

* TheSwarm: Ants are this on an even smaller scale. Teams of them can be found patrolling the undergrowth and defending the mealybugs that they feed on from possible threats.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The kismet of any spider unlucky enough to be caught and paralyzed by a mud dauber wasp.

* Pheromones: A very useful tool for each of the animal classes as they allow you to sense nearby predators, hidden prey, or nectar filled flowers. Certain animals will only release pheromones at certain times however, such as when mating or feeding, making them harder to track.

** In contrast, ladybugs and tiger beetles are agile and quick on their feet but can only fly for a short span of time before tiring. Grasshoppers are somewhere inbetween: unable to run properly or fly extensively, they launch themselves from plant to plant.

* FourLeggedInsect: The viceroy and monarch butterflies. Justified, seeing as in real life these two species tend to fold away their front legs away and out of use.

* SceneryPorn: The default map layout is a vibrant garden, and customizable further via sandbox mode. Depending on your settings, maps can also generate pristine lakes and huhe mountain ranges.

* SceneryPorn: The default map layout is a vibrant garden, and customizable further via sandbox mode.