CyberHive Review | TheXboxHub

CyberHive is a bizarre sport to attempt to evaluation. 

It’s a sport that comes from Blazing Planet Studios, revealed by Samustai LTD, and just about does precisely because it says on the tin – you are taking management of a spaceship that acts as a hive for a bunch of bees. On this intergalactic beehive, you must journey throughout the galaxy and comply with the narrative to its shut. Does it include a sting within the tail, or is all of it as candy as honey?

In CyberHive we take command of the Melistar, a spaceship that’s dwelling to a bunch of bees, and which seems to be on a little bit of a Star Trek mission – to boldly go the place no bee has gone earlier than. We discover an artefact whereas exploring, left to attempt to work out not solely the place it got here from, however what it’s and how one can unlock it. To this finish, you possibly can work together with a lot of different races, from Beetles to Mites and Mosquitoes, and the way in which that you just take care of these different species may have penalties additional down the road. Are you able to unlock the artefact and safe the treasure that it conceals? Will you fall by the wayside? Will anybody ever care?

The presentation is about as odd as the sport as an entire. CyberHive’s protagonists are described as “anthropomorphised” and being in an anime model, however what the sport will get proper is that each one the bees who’re something on the ship are feminine; the identical as in nature. Now, susceptible to being accused of being woke, I’ve to take concern with the artwork path of the bees – why are all of them scantily dressed, and intensely buxom? Take the soldier class as an illustration. They’re utilizing that well-known army uniform of a really brief halter prime and mini skirt that we see preventing items adopting everywhere in the world. As for the medical bee, I can nearly hear Kenneth Williams spinning in his grave. 

The bees themselves however, the remainder of the sport is offered in a reasonably easy model. The Melistar is proven from a top-down view, with a cutaway model exhibiting you all of the completely different rooms that you’ve got entry to. The sound is just a little minimal to be sincere, not even a buzz to be heard, and whereas the music is okay, the soundscape is just a little barren. 

What in regards to the precise gameplay? Nicely, what we’ve here’s a primary useful resource administration sport. We now have to guarantee that there may be sufficient Power Gel always, or the sport will finish if we run out. That appears to be the one manner that you may fail – no Gel, no life. Fortunately, within the ship there’s a part that may make the Gel, and so long as you retain it stocked with employees and uncooked supplies, the ship ought to be capable of preserve going. The place do these employees and supplies come from you ask? Nicely, let me clarify. 

The ship is split into sections. There’s a lab, the place you possibly can analysis issues to make your ship extra environment friendly; there’s a management room, the place the personnel are tasked with discovering locations to discover; there’s a barracks and an influence room and so forth. The extra bees you set right into a room, the extra environment friendly it’s – extra bees within the lab will make analysis duties finish extra rapidly, as an illustration, whereas extra bees within the management room will uncover extra locations. 

It’s these locations that almost all of your uncooked supplies will come from. Sending a group of bees to discover will permit them to collect any assets which can be kicking round. You may specify what you need them to choose up as a precedence, and relying on which supplies the lab must analysis issues. After all, for those who discover an asteroid that has Power Gel to be gathered, please ensure you seize that first. 

As soon as all of the bees are gainfully employed, you must advance time to the subsequent day to get issues shifting. CyberHive will warn you if any bee is left idle, so don’t fear about neglecting considered one of them. Each few days (or fewer, for those who improve the hatchery) a brand new bee shall be spawned, and so the crew is at all times increasing. This does increase a difficulty, nevertheless, as the quantity of Gel required to maintain the ship going goes up relying on what number of bees there are within the ship. Extra bees equates to the necessity for extra Gel, so ensuring your manufacturing is as much as snuff is important. 

And that’s just about the entire of the sport, aside from the occasional battle that you must participate in. These fights are fortunately uncommon, however usually are not a welcome diversion. Principally, as rockets streak in the direction of our ship, we’ve to shoot them down by shifting the cursor onto the incoming projectiles and hitting X. This wouldn’t be so dangerous if the cursor didn’t really feel prefer it was shifting in gradual movement, and the sluggish response sees much more missiles hitting than appears truthful. 

There’s additionally a survival mode to check out, when you’ve crushed the story, and in all, it is a chilled expertise. CyberHive is fairly calming on the entire, and following the narrative or retaining your crew lean, imply and hungry is pretty attention-grabbing. CyberHive will be capable of ship way more enjoyable than you could anticipate. 

CyberHive is on the Xbox Retailer