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You're a bee and you can wear hats. Do I need to say more?

For an educational tool, this was silly and fun. I'm surprised I didn't feel any motion sickness from a camera following a flying bee. You could finish the story and some exploration in two hours. I couldn't resist the achievements so that's why my time is longer.

You're a bee and you gather pollen for your hive. There's a glossary that can tell you more about animals, insects, flowers, etc you see in the game. You can earn points to buy skins, hats, and path animations. There are side quests and mini games to explore. The map is surprisingly large and you can fast travel right from your menu.

The negative is the gameplay and bugs (achievements are buggy, not insect bugs). The gameplay will get repetitive if you're trying to collect all feats. It doesn't add anything new. Most of the extra challenges are mini games like racing and fighting. The bugs are bad enough to stop you from collecting certain feats/achievements unless you can start a new game (like I had to) or mess with the game codes to fix it. If you don't care about 100% then it's not a big deal.

What a power move by this developer to attach lots of easy, shiny achievements to their educational video game about bees, thus enticing gamerscore-obsessed gamers to play something where every loading screen has a Fun Fact About The Honeybee.

No, I'm not telling on myself here. I played this the moment a friend told me that it was a cute nature game instead of a funny meme game. Is it low-budget and aimed at kids? Yes. Did it also make me a bit teary-eyed over the plight of bees? Also yes.

According to all known laws
of aviation,
:
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.
:
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.
:
The bee, of course, flies anyway
:
because bees don't care
what humans think is impossible.

Este jogo é tão mau HAHAHAHHAHA.


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Bee Simulator bears the markings of a fun action game, as well as of an educational experience. With its myriad of information about bees and an enjoyable, relaxing gameplay that will be welcomed by both children and adults, Bee Simulator would benefit from more precise controls, as well as from a more polished visual environment but nothing that precludes it from being a fun experience.
👉opencritic SUMMARY

Bee Simulator shows that it is possible to be both fun and educational in an effort that is fitting for players of all ages. While there are flaws to this experience, namely on the level of its too sensitive controls and rather lacklustre settings, the overall gameplay is relaxing and can provide some enjoyable albeit short time around a Nintendo Switch.
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Played this game on stream as a joke, but it was buzzing with a little bit of charm. After a couple hours, I'm certainly not going back. It was cute, though.

What a weird yet kind of awesome game this is. You play as a bee doing things like collect pollen, give dancing directions, race flies, fight hornets, and generally explore a massive little world. It’s got problems like bad voice acting, repetition, and many bugs, but overall I enjoyed the chill nature of this game. It’s about as much a bee simulator as goat simulator and I’m all for that.

bzzz bzzz i bee-leted this after 10minutes lol

Probably fun for a kid, it's educational and has lots of challenges in the form of mini games. However, with its enthusiastic, youthful tone and many repetitive tasks, this isn't a game that many adults will enjoy, I think. Not really a simulator either.

too mechanically dull, repetitive, and tonally infantile (especially in the voice acting, most of which sounds like a particularly condescending adult reading a children's book out loud) for me to bother finishing even at its very short length

A game with a precise and specific target audience that, I'm sure, has never captured the attention of anyone within that target, despite Steam's claims to the contrary

Peak. must play while high and with friends

Terrible game, I hate myself for staying up until 4am to get the Platinum trophy for it. Could be a kid's game, but the controls suck...

Bee Simulator takes yet a different approach when it comes to "simulator" games. Some take the silly/comical approach (i.e. Goat Simulator), some of them the realistic approach (i.e. Euro Truck Simulator) but Bee Simulator takes a more educational approach on how important are bees and their function in the ecosystem combined with simple controls and animated characters that can talk to each other. This puts the game on a different and strange stance in terms of being a "simulator" game.

Graphics are serviceable for what the game is trying to convey, for the most part is comprised of colorful environments based in the open world (limited) park setting the game takes place. The game features a narrator and some voice acting to move the "story" along and teach the player quick facts about the importance of bees in nature either via audio and/or loading screens. Gameplay revolves in flying in the limited open world area of the game performing fetch quests, fighting sequences (via QTEs), partaking in sequence memorization mini-games, and collecting pollen. These gameplay elements are not very polished and feel very basic in how they were developed and become repetitive rather quickly.

It's hard placing a score for this game...on one hand as a proper game it doesn't offer anything special and gameplay becomes repetitive very quickly so I'd say it's probably below average. However, if we can take into account the educational aspect of the game and the easy-to-pick-up and-play controls along with the vibrant graphics and presentation, this is actually a decent 'learning' game for young ones.

Good graphics, but made only for kids. Not a simulator at all.

I have no idea what I just experienced

Pior jogabilidade e voo q ja vi