Bee Kind Unblocked

Bee Kind is a pixel platformer where you are the hive’s bodyguard. You play a small blue bunny who keeps bees, and all around you the colony is busy: bees fly from flower to hive with pollen, new flowers and toadstools pop up constantly, and hungry grubs gnaw on the toadstools until they change into blue Zombees. It is gentle and a little silly, set to a looping waltz arranged from a public-domain Strauss piece. Jasper Renow-Clarke created it for js13k 2022, whose theme was death, and it plays unblocked here with a keyboard.

A Day in the Life of a Beekeeper

After a short intro introducing the cast, the first level opens by announcing its title and the size the colony must reach. Hint boxes in level one walk you through the basics.

Step one is always the same: track down the honey gun, which is dropped somewhere on the map, and walk over it. Without it, you can only watch.

With the gun in your paws, every shot does damage in stages. Toadstools crumble after a few hits, grubs need more and Zombees even more. Grubs that reach a toadstool eat it and eventually turn into Zombees, which go after bees to rob them of pollen and attack hives.

Meanwhile the bees do their own work. They gather pollen from flowers and drop it at hives, and when a hive’s store climbs past 10 pollen, it hatches another bee.

Clearing a Level

You need two things at once: zero grubs or Zombees left, and a colony that has hit its bee target. Level one asks for 5 bees, and the count rises by one per level to 11 on the last. The seven stages have names, starting with Bee Keeper Bunny and passing through Zombee Apocalypse before the finale, Bee Kind.

Some levels contain switch tiles that change the view from side-on platforming to top-down, where Up and Down walk you around the map instead of jumping and crouching. A small contest logo pickup makes you invulnerable for about ten seconds.

Bee Kind controls

To do this	Keyboard
Skip the opening scene	Any key
Walk	Left/Right arrows, A/D or Z/X
Jump, or move up in top-down sections	Up arrow, W or ;
Crouch, or move down in top-down sections	Down arrow, S or .
Shoot honey	Space, Enter or Shift
Stop the music once the loop finishes	M

Keeping the Colony Safe

• Grab the gun before anything else. Explore first, fight second.
• Clear toadstools as you pass them. Each one you destroy is food that a grub will never eat, and the free space lets more flowers bloom.
• Shoot grubs while they are small. They fall faster than the Zombees they would become.
• Stay out of a Zombee’s way. Contact leaves you slow, unable to jump and without your gun until you pick it up again.
• Save the logo for a crowd. Ten seconds of safety is perfect for pushing through several Zombees around a hive.
• Defend the hives. A Zombee attack halves the pollen inside, which delays every new bee.

Why It Stands Out

Few action games let you win by making something grow. Bee Kind’s little ecosystem keeps changing while you play, so every level feels alive. Fans of retro platforming will enjoy the Kenney-style pixel tiles. If you like this author’s work, try his 3D flyer Backspace: Return to Figadore, or jump into the run-and-gun Little Platformer.