Dear Wonderful Players! A new 2025 trailer is out for Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar, do check it out below! Read further on to learn about the game's 2025 roadmap as well :)

2025 Trailer for Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar

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2025 Roadmap: What's next for the game

New Content: Subspecies, Plants, Environment

This update will add more varieties of each major species (Butterfly, Mantis, Jumping Spider, etc) for giving players greater variety, color and interesting experiences. Alongside fauna, more plants and trees will also be added, giving players a more interesting and beautiful environment in which to play as their favorite creatures!
Finally, the environment itself will be improved - made both larger and more detailed. There is a very exciting update around the corner on this front, so stay tuned for more on this :)

Sandbox v2:"Create & Design - Nature"

A lot of players have expressed interest specifically in the Sandbox mode and its potential. A vastly improved Sandbox mode, entitled "Create & Design - Nature" has been planned for a while now.
This will provide players with complete guidance on how to unleash the full power of the Sandbox mode, emphasizing custom map creation, detailed workflows for handcrafting custom designs, direct control for players over Lighting and Time of Day (eg: choosing a fixed Season and time of day for your Sandbox scenarios instead of having to speed up the time just to reach a new season). "Create & Design - Nature" will also feature a Scenario Editor - enabling players to share their custom creations on Steam Workshop!

Making the grand journey from Bug Life to Birds, Reptiles & Mammals

The game's nature engine has been designed from ground up to support multiple perspectives and scales. Thus, not only the micro-scale undergrowth of First Instar Leafhoppers (tinier than a pinhead!), but also of tree canopies, of meadows, of landscapes and ultimately entire biomes. While invertebrates have necessarily been the game's sole focus as the foundation of all ecosystems, yet the plan has always been to work upwards towards Birds, Reptiles and Larger mammals.
For the game to reach a larger player base and thus benefit existing players like yourself, I feel that this grand leap needs to be taken soon, as demonstrating the full power of the game's nature engine will be a great way to increase awareness about the game and thus bring in a new generation of players like yourself :)

Mutliplayer (Exploration, Survival, Face Off)

Multiplayer is indeed another key milestone for the game's roadmap. Sharing your nature experiences together in a single game world will be truly game changing indeed! While the first version will necessarily focus on the simpler game modes like "Free Exploration", "Survival" or "Face Off" (this will make it practical to deliver a good experience for players on time), there is pretty much unlimited potential for fun in this space!

Thank you!

Thanks as always to the game's wonderful players for your support and inspiration! Everything that can be done to bring a Beautiful, Fascinating and Inspiring Nature World to the game's wonderful players is being done. With your love and support the game will indeed continue to grow and improve with each passing day! Thank you! With Love, - Venugopalan Sreedharan (Developer of Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar)

[ 2025-03-24 05:41:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Drunk On Nectar is a Nature Sandbox game about animals, plants and ecology. Multiple game-modes allow you to either play as a creature yourself, simulate ecosystems or create scenarios of your own.

DoN aims to provide the most comprehensive nature experience gaming has ever seen. To this end, the game has been built at invertebrate-scale (a micro world) for an unprecedented level of detail. Plants in DoN are not flat props but living, growing entities that flower, pollinate and propagate across seasons like real plants. Finally, each species has unique gameplay depending on its morphology.

The current release features four invertebrate species: Jumping Spider (Phidippus Regius), Butterfly (Viceroy), Dragonfly (Common Hawker) and a Bee (Solitary) along with three flowering plants: Orange Lily, Greater Knapweed, Imperata Cylindrica (Grass) and a non-flowering plant: Fern. Trees and other flora are also featured but with only limited simulation at present.

Additional species of animals, plants and ecological phenomena are planned for addition once the game's EA goals (read above) have been met. You are welcome to vote for a creature or plant you're excited about for addition in the community forums!

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While no game can possibly cover all of Nature, Drunk On Nectar is a sincere commitment to go as far as one possibly can.