Ant colony is a platform game.  You start off as a young ant named Last and have the option to leave the underground nest to look for food and resources or work inside of it to help speed production. Be careful as working too much raises the chances of starvation. Once outside of your home the environment would consist of uneven terrain, suspended platforms and traps of varying height that requires use of the player character's abilities in order to traverse. You will come across many insects in which you can learn to kill to eat. As you progress and complete objectives you will level up and learn new skills to enable you to carry heavy resources, pinch and stab bigger enemies. As last you will run, climb and even wall jump in order to look for resources. Most times it is possible to find the enemy's home and you can enter at your own risk to kill, eat, or steal and run away. Be careful to not waste too much time looking for food. The more time you waste the more food is being eaten at home. Insects are interested in your home so you must defend it by going around your nest and stabbing enemies quick with your pincher before they kill the queen and steal the eggs. At some point you can set a number of soldiers to defend while you search outside. Victory is achieved by raising the nest capacity to a certain limit.  Your nest capacity lowers if the queen eggs are stolen. Once every egg is gone or the queen dies it's game over.