About Melbee Games and Melbees: The Secret of Bees

Melbee Games is Leo, an independent developer. He built Melbees: The Secret of Bees on his own. The official launch was on October 13, 2026, on Android and Windows PC, and iPhone followed later in October. The game is available in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. Before opening to everyone, the game went through a closed test on Google Play. The Daily Challenge also runs in your browser, with nothing to install.

Why the game exists

The idea combines two games almost everyone knows. Hangman brings the letters and the general knowledge: each Secret is a real word, from a category like Geography, Animals or Movies. Minesweeper brings the deduction: the number on each hex counts the right letters around it. Together they make a game of reasoning over luck, with many ways to solve. If you know more about the subject, you move ahead through the words; if you prefer logic, you move ahead through the numbers.

There are more than 15,000 Secrets in each language. Each Secret you uncover comes with a fun fact and joins your collection in the Apiary of Secrets.

Mel and friends

Mel is the queen bee. Her card reveals a right letter from each Secret. Alongside her are the other Melbees friends, each with a power card:

• Pow, the warrior drone, opens wrong letters.
• Lil, the worker, unmasks Mic.
• Isa, the ice bee, freezes the clock.
• Bia, the bumblebee, spreads a pollen cloud that shows the true numbers.
• Dot, the ladybug scout, points to the nearest right letter.
• Leo, the orchid bee, takes a mistake so it doesn't cost you a petal.
• Red, the mining bee, shows the word tips.

And there's Hug, the hummingbird teacher, who teaches the game in Flight Class and guides players in Beginner.

The foes

Each foe is a real predator or parasite of bees and pollinators: Fed, a stink bug; Oto, a Venus flytrap, the carnivorous plant; Sly, a spider; Mic, a robber fly; and Stu, a wasp. On the honeycomb, each one gets in your way differently: hiding numbers, locking cells, tying hexes together in pairs or making a number lie.

To reach the studio, write to contact@melbees.games.