Bee Island

Tower defense and base building around a besieged bee hive

Lemma Arts · Released Aug 25, 2023

Reviews: Very Positive; 87% of 1,710
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 81% of 22 in 30 days
Playing now: 10; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 2 months ago; Jul 21, 2026

What is Bee Island?

Bee Island is a tower defense and base-building strategy game about protecting a bee hive from waves of increasingly strong attackers. Build honeycombs to expand the hive, set up factories to produce resources, raise worker and warrior bees, and research new defenses. You can play alone or in online co-op.

For you if...

+you like balancing resource production with wave defense
+you want to build and defend a bee colony with friends

Not for you if...

−you prefer peaceful city building over recurring attacks

What players say

87% of 1,710 reviews are positive · 81% of 22 in the last 30 days

Players praise the mix of hive defense and resource management, particularly in co-op. Common complaints include lag later in a run, limited replay value, unclear resource and building information, and bugs.

Screenshots and trailer

Bee Island system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
Graphics: GTX 660
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 5 GB available space

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 24
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Text only: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Thai, Finnish, Czech, Swedish.