Bee Swarm Simulator

Bee Swarm Simulator is a 2018 simulator game created by Onett. Players have to raise and grow their Bees while collecting pollen and converting them into honey and doing quests for rewards, while fighting against bigger and more cruder insects and animals such as Rhino Beetles and Spiders.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The concept of raising and growing a swarm of bees to access other parts of an area, to fight against dangerous insects and animals is a unique idea.
 * 2) The soundtrack is kind of cute, despite mostly consisting of beeping. Each song uses multiple forms of beeps to create a rhythm, which is a pretty creative idea.
 * 3) Despite the graphics not having a lot of details, this helps support the game with its style of being simple and cute because of how the graphics don't try to make the game seem too serious.
 * 4) The open-world map does a great job at making the player feel like some sort of bug, and it helps support this theme by making insects and objects that are normally small such Ladybugs Mantises, and mushrooms, much larger.
 * 5) Players are able to hatch multiple Bees, who are nice partners that grant players more Pollen that can later be converted into Honey to buy other items to help them gain more Honey such as weapons and backpacks.
 * 6) Players are also able to obtain Gifted Bees, which are stronger versions of their original form, with each of them having upgraded statuses and an extra special ability as well, such as Gifted Vicious Bee shortening the respawn time of enemies and bosses.
 * 7) Most of the Bees have unique abilities, with each ability helping players in different ways.
 * 8) * Vicious Bee can use a impale attack, which involves multiple spikes coming up from the ground that can help kill enemies.
 * 9) * Windy Bee can use a tornado that collects any Token for the player that it touches.
 * 10) There are multiple Quests that reward players with items such as Eggs if they manage to complete them, even if they get repetitive very quickly.
 * 11) There are multiple Tokens that give players temporary boosts such as a quicker walk speed or an attack multiplier. They can be obtained by having Bees randomly spawn them.
 * 12) There are a decent variety of minibosses and bosses to challenge the player, with a few examples being listed below:
 * 13) * Commando Chick throws three grenades when he spawns and runs around his arena and throws multiple grenades at the player. Commando Chick is also unfightable until players buy the Scissors from the Noob Shop to cut a few vines that are blocking the path to Commando Chick's arena.
 * 14) * Vicious Bee flies around and sends a few spikes to strike where the player is standing, and then does a spike swarm attack that sends spikes in multiple and random spots in the field that Vicious Bee is in.
 * 15) * Stick Bug uses multiple attacks to defeat the player, such as sending an army of Nymph's and placing spinning sticks to damage the player.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) A chunk of this game's unlockable features are locked behind being a member of the Bee Swarm Simulator Club, which can come off as greedy. To make matters worse, players have to join the Bee Swarm Simulator Club for one of Science Bear's quests, The Power of Information.
 * 2) A lot of the items are pretty expensive such as the Petal Belt and the Gummy Boots, and some of the enemies are really powerful too, which causes the game to get rather grindy and repetitive at times, since that players are often busy farming in the same fields to just buy one item, or to get strong enough to beat a few of the bosses such as Stump Snail or Coconut Crab.
 * 3) A chunk of the game relies on random events, with a few examples being listed below:
 * 4) * Bees and Gifted Bees are often random, since that players are often supposed to obtain new Bees by getting lucky with what hatches from the Egg that they used, or what the Bee turns into from the Royal Jelly that they used.
 * 5) * A Wild Windy Bee can only spawn if a player donates a certain number of items to the Wind Shrine, and if a Wild Windy Bee does not spawn, then the player who donated their items to the Wind Shrine will have to wait for one hour just to have another try at spawning a Wild Windy Bee.
 * 6) The only way to obtain Bear Bee is by purchasing him with 800 Robux, which is equal to 10$ (U.S.).
 * 7) As stated earlier, the Quests can get repetitive and boring very quickly, as every Quest relies on the same objectives to complete them, with most of them consisting of using items, defeating enemies, and gaining more Pollen.
 * 8) A lot of enemies and objects such as Dispensers and the Wind Shrine have really long cooldowns for no other reason than to make players stay in the game for longer, and to make matters worse, players have to stay in the game to make some cooldowns shorter, such as the Planters, and while Gifted Vicious Bee can help with this flaw as stated earlier, his special ability that shortens respawn times only applies to enemies. A few examples of these long cooldowns are also listed below:
 * 9) * The Spider takes thirty minutes to respawn, while the Werewolf takes one hour to respawn, which can make a lot of Quests really tedious, especially Polar Bear's Quests, since that his Quests often rely on killing multiple enemies.
 * 10) * The Strawberry, Blueberry, and Coconut Dispensers take four hours to use again, and while it's understandable for the Coconut Dispenser to have a long cooldown due to how Coconuts are harder to find, the Strawberry and Blueberry Dispensers aren't understandable because players can easily obtain much more Strawberries and Blueberries than the amount that their Dispensers give within their cooldown time, and even the Coconut Dispenser shouldn't have a four hour cooldown either, since that players can also get way more Coconuts by themselves than what the Coconut Dispenser gives, especially within four hours. The Strawberry and Blueberry Dispensers are also needed three times each for one of Science Bear's quests, The Power of Information, which makes this even worse.
 * 11) * As stated earlier, the Wind Shrine takes one hour to use again, which can make some Quests that are normally pretty simple a lot of waiting.
 * 12) Some of the boss fights such as Tunnel Bear and Stump Snail can be really boring, as some of the bosses tend to rely on walking around their arena as the player slowly waits for the boss to die.
 * 13) As stated earlier, the soundtrack can get annoying for some people due to how the songs are mostly made up of beeping.
 * 14) Players can steal your pollen if they go into the same field as you and farm in the spot that you're in.
 * 15) The 2021 Christmas event was a huge disappointment, as it was almost the same thing as the 2020 Christmas event, except that Dapper Bear had a new quest for the event, Festive Planters made their debut, and a few minor changes were made to the quests given by the Quest Bears. It doesn't help that none of the flaws from the 2020 Christmas event such as the long cooldown times for things such Panda Bear's Snowbear fights, Brown Bear's Stockings, and Mother Bear's Gingerbread House weren't fixed in the 2021 Christmas Event either.