Do you think beehives can just be done? No. At least in the world of PC gaming, you have to plan, build, research, and collect. If you've played countless management and strategy games, you've learned all about that, and Hive Time is a game where you manage a bee colony and must expand, manage, and protect the hive from nature's biggest jerks, the wasps.

This is an exhilarating theme, and a great way to escape pesky humans and their constant organizational problems. Of course, the bees don't have it easy. In this engaging and accessible strategy game, you must decide which cells to build, research new bee technology, and raise a new generation of bees while the worker bees are out foraging.

Hive Time is available for a fee, as is the soundtrack, with 50 percent of the proceeds from the latter going to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

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