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Hive with AI (board game) on Windows Pc

Developed By: JB Chaubet

License: Free

Rating: 4,8/5 - 5.185 votes

Last Updated: April 16, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version 17.5.3
Size 5.5 MB
Release Date May 04, 24
Category Board Games

Game Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (3)]

Description from Developer:
Hive is a board game from John Yianni with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download Hive with AI (board game) and play on Windows PC. Hive with AI (board game) is free Board game, developed by JB Chaubet. Latest version of Hive with AI (board game) is 17.5.3, was released on 2024-05-04 (updated on 2024-04-16). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 100,000. Overall rating of Hive with AI (board game) is 4,8. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 5,185 users, 1 users had rated it 5*, 4,199 users had rated it 1*.

How to play Hive with AI (board game) on Windows?

Instruction on how to play Hive with AI (board game) on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Hive with AI (board game) on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Play Hive with AI (board game) using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Hive with AI (board game)" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play Hive with AI (board game) on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Hive with AI (board game)" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

Discussion

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Hive is a board game from John Yianni with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture the opposing Queen Bee.

The soldier ants battle to keep control of the outside of the hive, whilst the Beetles climb up to dominate the top. Spiders moving into holding positions as the Grass Hoppers jump in for the kill. Keeping one eye on the hive and the other on your opponents reserves, the tension builds as one wrong move will see your Queen Bee quickly engulfed... game over!


The main features of this application are:
-Ability to play against Artificial Intelligence with 6 Computer levels. The expert level is really challenging and only advanced players should be able to beat it.
-Online mode shared with https://en.boardgamearena.com (the largest boardgame table in the world!). Turn-based and real-time games are available.
-2 players mode (Pass and Play)
-Possibility to save/load multiple ongoing games
-Game notation can be copied to clipboard
-Undos are possible and unlimited
-Hint system (activable in the menu) to see how the AI would play in your situation
-Tutorial to help learning the rules or possibility to download rules as pdf
-Explanations of why illegal moves are illegal
-Optional tournament rules (no queen on first move)
-Display of stacked pawns (with a long click)
-Switch the view to see either from black or white side
-Possibility to change background
-Pinch to zoom
-Translated in 16 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Russian, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Czech. Do not hesitate to contact me if you want to help translating in a new language!

P.S. Thanks a lot to Povilas for teaching some Hive advanced strategies and thanks a lot to all the translators :-) :-)
- Matteo Randi for Italian
- Boris Timofeev for Russian
- Michał Bojnowski for Polish
- yzemaze for German
- Konstantinos Kokkolis for Greek
- Attila Nagy for Hungarian
- Ivan Marchuk for Ukrainian
- Gia Shwan for Dutch
- Alzerni Etna B Silva for Brazilian Portuguese
- longler for Romanian (online part)
- Michal Minarčík for Czech
- Marc Galera for Catalan
- PurpleSpaz for Chinese
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.