One queen. A colony with a mind of its own.

Guide your queen. Plan your settlement. Let your crawlers get to work.

Brood Works is a colony-building strategy game about an industrial hive and the many small machines that keep it alive. Directly control your queen while autonomous crawlers gather steel, supply construction, and help your settlement grow.

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Plan the colony

Choose where to build and where to store your steel. Depots are the heart of your supply network: crawlers bring materials home, then carry them from storage to the buildings that need them. Good placement gives your colony room to grow.

Watch it work

Your crawlers handle the jobs. Watch workers haul sheets of steel, supply nearby construction, and bring new buildings to life. Shape the settlement through building and logistics decisions while the hive organizes its workforce.

Lead the queen

Take direct control of your queen. Explore, respond to threats, and support your colony where it matters most.

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Playing Brood Works

Designed for desktop play with a keyboard and mouse. For more room to plan your colony, use fullscreen.

In active development. Systems, balance, and presentation are still evolving.

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Source code

Browse the Brood Works jam source on GitHub.

Includes game source, assets, and local build instructions. Released under a source-available evaluation license: personal, non-commercial inspection, building, and local modification are permitted. Redistribution and commercial use require permission, subject to the license’s third-party and hosting-platform exceptions. Read the full license.