Hivebound

Submitted for Comfy Jam Spring 2026 

Hivebound is a cozy bee game about growing your meadow one flower at a time.  

Controls:

WASD+Mouse or Controller Sticks for movement/aiming

Space or Right Bumper to lift off into the air

LCtrl/Q or Left Bumper to dive back down

Press E or West Gamepad Btn to Interact with Perches or Upgrades

LShift or South Gamepad Btn for a boost.

Left Trigger or LMB to Vacuum in pollen from flowers and nectar from the ground.

Right Trigger or RMB to release pollen near plantable areas to grow more flowers.

Controls also in the Tutorial inside the settings menu.

How To Play:

Draw pollen from the flower near your hive.

When you have a pollen floating around you, find a tree with butterflies around it and release the pollen to plant a flower.  Now collect more pollen, and any nectar the flower produces over it's lifetime, and spread your garden.

At the hive you can upgrade your bee's carry capacity, wing efficiency, and recruit sister bees to help collect the nectar.  The three pedestals will take from the same nectar that your hive uses to upgrade to the next generation, so spend wisely. 

As your Hive grows and you recruit more bees, expand outward and let the nectar flow.

Enjoy the relaxing loop and watch your world become greener.

Known issues: 

Might take a while to load on Web.  It is shader heavy and they all need to load.

Continue only works on download(coming soon)

No number or text for upgrades, so good luck.  I went for Diagetic and I guess we will see if it lands.

WebGL handles the ground shader horrendously so looking into that.