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Which comes from "It came from the desert" videogame series [0].

I played it as a very young kid (not knowing English! I don't even know how I managed to do anything), and it was fantastic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_the_Desert

Which is a nod to the game 'It Came From The Desert' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_the_Desert)... I think I'll have to re-install both :)

Isn't it from It or They Came From Outer Space?

I'm still trying to track down a scifi book I read as a kid where a rich guy buys a huge aquarium that has four ant colonies at the corners. They fight and eventually I think one escapes and kills the owner.

"Sandkings" - it's a very famous short story by George R.R Martin. Also had a tv episode of outer limits based on it

Thanks so much! I've since read other George R.R. Martin scifi (from the same universe, it appears), I really wish he had stuck to that.