Hive with AI (board game)
Hive the board game from John Yianni eventually with Artificial Intelligence.
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Android App Analysis and Review: Hive with AI (board game), Developed by JB Chaubet. Listed in Board Category. Current Version Is v6q, Updated On 04/04/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Hive with AI (board game). Achieved Over 310 thousand Installs. Hive with AI (board game) Currently Has 5 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.8 Stars
Hive is a board game from John Yianni with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture the opposing Queen Bee.The soldier ants battle to keep control of the outside of the hive, whilst the Beetles climb up to dominate the top. Spiders moving into holding positions as the Grass Hoppers jump in for the kill. Keeping one eye on the hive and the other on your opponents reserves, the tension builds as one wrong move will see your Queen Bee quickly engulfed... game over!
The main features of this application are:
-Ability to play against Artificial Intelligence with 6 Computer levels. The expert level is really challenging and only advanced players should be able to beat it.
-Online mode shared with https://en.boardgamearena.com (the largest boardgame table in the world!). Turn-based and real-time games are available.
-2 players mode (Pass and Play)
-Possibility to save/load multiple ongoing games
-Game notation can be copied to clipboard
-Undos are possible and unlimited
-Hint system (activable in the menu) to see how the AI would play in your situation
-Tutorial to help learning the rules or possibility to download rules as pdf
-Explanations of why illegal moves are illegal
-Optional tournament rules (no queen on first move)
-Display of stacked pawns (with a long click)
-Switch the view to see either from black or white side
-Possibility to change background
-Pinch to zoom
-Translated in 16 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Russian, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Czech. Do not hesitate to contact me if you want to help translating in a new language!
P.S. Thanks a lot to Povilas for teaching some Hive advanced strategies and thanks a lot to all the translators :-) :-)
- Matteo Randi for Italian
- Boris Timofeev for Russian
- Michał Bojnowski for Polish
- yzemaze for German
- Konstantinos Kokkolis for Greek
- Attila Nagy for Hungarian
- Ivan Marchuk for Ukrainian
- Gia Shwan for Dutch
- Alzerni Etna B Silva for Brazilian Portuguese
- longler for Romanian (online part)
- Michal Minarčík for Czech
- Marc Galera for Catalan
- PurpleSpaz for Chinese
We are currently offering last version updated 04/04/2025 . This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover you can download without registration and no login required.
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What's New
Online mode change:
* remove real time games support as BGA does not support any more socket.io
* bug fixes
* remove real time games support as BGA does not support any more socket.io
* bug fixes
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Recent Comments
Finn Thebeau
hive is an excellent game and this app is perfect for learning how to play! easy to learn, impossible to master. i was a little irked for a moment that the other bug expansions were microtransactions, but then i realized i hadn't seen a single ad -- worth it! once you master the base game i encourage you to support the devs and learn how to play with mosquitos, pill bugs and ladybugs!
A Google user
The AI is fun and this is definitely the board game i enjoy, though the app itself has a few bugs. Off the top of my head, it inconsistently uses the background I have set depending on if I am coming from an online game, and it always makes me login (it remembers credentials). The chat is easy to miss (it would be nice to notify on messages). It would be nice if it was FOSS like LiChess, it would be nice to be able to contribute back! If you already like hive this is definitely the app to use.
Matthew Williams
Has expansions, for $1.50 each. Considering the base game is free, it's still a bargain only for 4.50. Comes with pass and play or online for multiplayer. AI is good, no bugs as of yet, and perfectly recreates the game. No fancy movement animations or anything, but that's not a problem.
A Google user
Great game, but loses connection online mid-game a lot even on great wifi. It will rubber band lag and revert your move and come up with an error in the middle of a tournament. I tried refreshing after, but sometimes it continues over and over again. To the point where i just give up playing it. Its very fun to play, but i mostly stop playing it from frustration of errors than anything else. It would be nice to make custom game times as well or watch current games of tournaments, etc.
Carter Bennett
The app plays very well most of the time and is a good place to play hive. I do find that on certain games the ai will just intentionally lose by dropping all their pieces in a straight line but otherwise the game works great. I personally find it a little frustrating that the expansion pieces all cost money and are sold separately for more than I think is justified but the actual game runs well and I think the app itself is well designed and very functional.
A Google user
I really like the game and the AI is challenging for me. A couple of quick suggestions. When I accidentally touch the opponent's piece is says "wait your turn" even if it's my turn. Similarly I'd like to be able to move my view of the board during the AI's turn but trying to do so results in the same message. Actually, being able to toggle all the messages off would be nice. I'd also say the icon could use an update.
Shelley Black
I love the app! I do think it would be good if the difficult/expert levels didn't have the potential moves outlined. At that point you don't need that feature and it makes you think more to have that removed. This is date time for my husband and I after baby is asleep...with the app I can get in extra practice by myself :) very well-made app. My husband pointed out he feels as if we are being nickeled and dimed in order to get the extra pieces.
A Google user
Exactly the same as the board game. Simple controls, great tutorials and no ads. The monetization is very reasonable, the 3 expansion pieces are $2 each. These pieces add a lot to the game, but it's still very fun without them. The AI is totally competent on normal. I haven't tried online play quite yet so I'm not sure how that performs, but it's worth a download whether you've played the board game or not before.