Ants Took My Eyeball
Released Apr 2024
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
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Released, content planned but development status unclear
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Steam $12.99
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Evaluation
Ants Took My Eyeball launched on April 19, 2024 and has received a consistent stream of major content updates: v1.4.0 (May 1, 2024), v1.5.0 (May 8, 2024), v1.6.0 (May 26, 2024), v1.7.0 (November 29, 2024), v1.7.1 (December 19, 2024), v1.8.0 (February 10, 2025), and v1.9.0 (April 20, 2025). This establishes a clear pattern of major content drops roughly every 1–6 months across the game's first year.
On the game's first anniversary (April 20, 2025), the developer explicitly stated that a bigger update is currently in development — one that will "add much more variety to the main gameplay, as well as more difficult end game content" — and teased "other big news coming soon." The February 10, 2025 update had similarly flagged a major upcoming release with new areas and enemies.
The last developer communication of any kind was a small bug fix post on June 9, 2025. As of October 1, 2026, that is over 15 months of complete silence. The promised large update and the teased big news have not been announced or delivered in that time. Given that major content had previously arrived every few months, this extended silence — without any explanation from the developer — means there is real uncertainty about whether the promised content is still coming.
Evidence
Anniversary post confirms a larger update is currently in development, promising new areas, enemies, and end-game challenge content, plus 'other big news coming soon'
Developer states the next update will be larger and more impactful, with new areas, enemies, and more variety
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Bosmic Forge
Achievements
45
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen
About this game
FAST PACED COMBAT
Destroy hostile insects and other creatures with a variety of guns, melee weapons, gadgets and trinkets. Use your exceptional mobility to run, jump and dash around your enemies to avoid damage and to gain positional advantage.PROCEDURALLY GENERATED LEVELS
Explore procedurally generated levels of the mysterious ant hill, with various diverse biomes with their own unique enemies, traps and loot. No run will be the same, as each adventure into the ant hill provides you with new challenges and opportunities.LOOT, LOOT, LOOT
Find as many new melee weapons, guns, gadgets and trinkets as possible to improve your odds against the powerful enemies that await you. Scrap items for gold and components, upgrade your weapons to more powerful variants, and hoard as many trinkets as possible!1-4 PLAYER LOCAL CO-OP
Fight your way through the ant hill either alone or together with friends! Play with full controller support or get hands-on with keyboard and mouse. Steam Remote Play is also supported.PERMANENT PROGRESSION
Spend gems between runs to upgrade your base with furniture that gives you a nice little head start for your future runs. And who knows, there could also be other permanent unlocks to be found somewhere deep inside the ant hill.Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Oct 1, 2026
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