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Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration. Unique gameplay for each species! Currently featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and other iconic creatures. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles coming soon!
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Tracked since Jul 7, 2026.
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Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar aims to be the most comprehensive nature simulation ever made!
From Mantis & Monarch,
To Jumping Spiders & Blue Butterflies!
And Ladybugs & Grasshoppers too!
Experience Nature as you've never seen it before!
Built as a micro-scale 3D simulation (accurate to millimeter scale), this game takes you right down to life at the level of the tiniest life forms in our world!
Spawn as a tiny Monarch Butterfly egg smaller than a pinhead.
Grow and metamorphose into a glorious winged adult!
Spawn as a Jumping Spider inside a Silken Egg Sac, guarded by your mother.
Balloon through the Skies on a strand of silk, as you scour the lands, looking for prey!
Spawn as a tiny Praying Mantis born high and deep inside a massive, living "Tree World"
Grow and explore the massive tree for prey. Finally - Grow wings and fly in search of a mate!
... and so many more!
Lifecycles Mode
In Lifecycles mode players control an animal species from birth all the way upto its maturity.
Predator gameplay involves high-speed hunting and movement for continued survival, while Prey gameplay involves feeding and hiding from predators.
After reaching adulthood, players experience a unique Mating & Reproduction act for each species The entire lifecycle then repeats itself again with a new egg and a new gender.
Praying Mantis Lifecycle
Jumping Spider Lifecycle
Monarch Butterfly Lifecycle
Common Blue Butterfly Lifecycle
Ladybug Lifecycle
Grasshopper Lifecycle
More species yet are featured in other game modes like Survival Sim (see below).
Survival Sim Mode
Survival Sim mode features elements of Survival without any emphasis on the Lifecycle of a species itself and is great for jumping straight in (no pun intended, in case of the Jumping Spider!) into your favorite species for a quick game.
Face Off Mode
"Face Off" is a brawler type one-on-one confrontation with another species, be it predator or prey.
Create & Design Nature Mode
Under Sandbox genre, the game features a unique "Create & Design, Nature" mode.
Players control a Sandbox map where they can add new plants, animals & props and control the flow of time. The Sandbox mode is extremely powerful and allows players to effectively create new scenarios and experience them as their chosen creatures.
Planetary Ecology Mode
This is essentially a 3D painting mini-game which allows players to paint biomes (as terrrain) over a planetary sphere. Simple educational narratives on Planetary Ecology are also included as part of this mode.
Under Fantasy, the game features a "Creature Quests" mode. These are unique adventure type quests with Steam Leaderboards for fastest time.
Currently these quests are available for the Jumping Spider and Ladybug species.
Finally, under Casual genre, the game features a "Free Exploration" mode.
Free Exploration allows players to leverage the game's powerful Random Map "Ecology Editor" to explore new random maps at their own pace, without the pressure of survival thrust upon them.
Procedural World Generation
Random Map generation is available for all game modes, players also get to enter their own "Random Seed to create potentially infinite variations of each time for endless replay value!
