# Hive

Summer DB entity ID: 8a810af9\-6ef8\-4bea\-8ae1\-2b444472e469

Steam App ID: 251210

Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award\-winning board game\!  Hive is a board game 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 \(surround\) the opposing Queen Bee\.  Features:    Play locally or online\.    Play against the Computer \- AI with five difficulty levels\.    Includes "hot\-seat"/"pass\-n\-play" mode for players with who want to share one mouse/keyboard or gamepad\.    Full 3D with camera\-control    Switch seamlessly between playing with mouse/keyboard and gamepad\.    Dozens of Steam Stats & Achievements\.    Same expansions as table\-top version: the Pillbug, the Ladybug, and the Mosquito expansions are available as DLC\.    Each expansion can be turned on/off for any individual game\. Play with these pieces online even if your opponent does not own the expansions\! \(they will also get to use the expansions during the game\)    Asynchronous play \- you can play even when your opponent is offline\.    The Hive board game is a winner of many awards including "Mensa Select", "Dr\. Toy: Product of Excellence", "Spiele Hits", "International Gamers Awards", and "Juego del año"\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: BlueLine Games

- Publisher: BlueLine Games

- Release date: Mar 20, 2014

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Multi\-player, Cross\-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Steam Turn Notifications, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_f89bb9bf288395123156e9187eb711fa55c28a64\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_eca9b14ca2d39da12ed09f2da6a76a27dfaa58d3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_41ecc05b646ab61f503f0da4db52e11034f65eee\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_c7bc6039c0326a7e08d2ba765c193252eda530da\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_b06e9d29cb265644a3d233a38d662e4e518ff508\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_09ac18d705f335e41a6174ea6a84b48274c45e6f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_ed5987d096767626937bc1c65f93aa671d0bed0a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_718b659ec293b1c7807ea3006433f0da3b0cfd3f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_1e31431dcf159bfb3eb4ffa910da4a872a4cf230\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_8fcdfa2b8d8fe4c4780de11d4096699a0a71c8f2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/251210/ss\_9cdc8abc9e3695bc41f454552490ef0b2bc9b9e7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1483560538

- Price: 999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 312

- Steam positive reviews: 263

- Steam negative reviews: 49

- Steam positive percentage: 84.2948717948718%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/8a810af9-6ef8-4bea-8ae1-2b444472e469/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/8a810af9-6ef8-4bea-8ae1-2b444472e469/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T21:54:03\.811479\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T21:54:04\.890168\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T21:54:04\.673853\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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