For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to Spanettone's Scurge: Hive (GBA) maps.
On the planet Inos, at a research laboratory, a virulent alien parasite known as "the Scurge" has breached containment. As the Scurge infects organisms and machines, it transforms them into creatures and obstacles that our heroine, Jenosa Arma, will have to overcome. She has been hired by the military to eliminate the Scurge while salvaging whatever equipment she can. Good thing she has a special suit and is capable of upgrading her abilities along the way, but she'll have to stave off her own infection, which she gets after her first exposure to the Scurge.
Though comparisons with the Metroid series are expected, Scurge: Hive is more action-heavy, so Jenosa's survival will be very much a priority, that exploration of this isometric world won't be that easy. It's fortunate that we have these maps by Spanettone to make getting around Inos easier.
Though this game was released on the GBA and DS back in 2006, it recently got rereleased - last month, in fact - for the PC and all the major platforms, so it's easier to experience Scurge: Hive than ever before.
So to recognize the effort put into mapping this "isometroid", Spanettone's Scurge: Hive (GBA) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for November 2025.
