
300+ lifelike bugs to collect and grow—breed them to unlock rare species! Customize your terrarium with 300+ landscaping items and 70+ backgrounds. A tiny, soothing nature escape on your screen!🦋🐌🦗🐝🐞🐛🦐
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Hello everyone! We're a small indie team of three from China, and we're obsessed with bugs. But as digital nomads, we can't keep real insects long-term—so we turned our screens into virtual terrariums!
That's how Bugtopia was born: a cozy idler where you can raise, breed, and collect bugs without any real-life limits.
We hope it brings you the same joy we felt from petting bugs!

Bugtopia is a unique idler featuring not just one, but over 300 lovingly crafted bug species - all based on real-life counterparts! From bioluminescent wonders to chirpy little critters, we've given each insect an adorable artistic makeover while preserving their real-world charm.
The game introduces a special breeding/mating system - simply place two bugs in the breeding box and wait patiently for exciting new (and sometimes rare!) species to emerge.
With deep respect for nature, we've included some endangered and even extinct insects, built encyclopedia entries for every species. We hope players will grow to appreciate these tiny lives through our game.

To let your bugs live in a cozy, comfortable and personalized terrarium environment, we've created a highly free DIY landscaping system.
20+ Terrarium types, 70+ water & soil and wallpaper options, 300+ landscaping items, 700+ evolving states that gradually unlock through idle gameplay. With countless combination possibilities, you can create ever-changing terrarium landscapes tailored to your preferences!
The terrarium features 5 time periods and 4 weather conditions. From dawn to night, from sunny days to drizzles and misty weather, your terrarium is full of vitality and changes. Additional features include desktop wallpaper mode and pomodoro timer. Other little functions and easter eggs are coming up for perfect companions, for both work and leisure time.
Place a little piece of nature on your desktop - watch foxtails grow lush, moss cover stones, dotted with cute bugs and their soothing chirps. We hope Bugtopia can bring a moment of relaxation to your busy days, letting you enjoy some peaceful and beautiful moments.
The three founders, having developed strong teamwork through multiple GameJams and commercial projects, officially established the indie game studio "Nocturnal Games" in 2024. They firmly believe that gentle and cozy games can also leave a lasting impression.
GCORES PUBLISHING is the indie game publishing division established by Gcores. Dedicated to bringing players more outstanding indie games in the future. We welcome you to follow our publisher page.
An indie game brand under GCORES. The BOOOMJAM Game Jam is held twice a year, featuring a three-week, theme-limited game development event. After the development phase, an online playtest festival is held for all players, and the games are showcased at G-Fusion, a large-scale offline game fest held by GCORES.

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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 43 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
9/10 最好玩的挂机游戏!培养箱玩法满分! 86.3h解锁全图鉴,除了“买bug送游戏了”之外的成就都拿到了。这个成就官方说是要捉够50个bug才行,但是每次要挂好久才能出现一个bug,感觉遥遥无期……不喜欢这种随机性太高的成就,扣一分。前期不知道离线也会有收益,所以晚上睡觉也一直把游戏开着挂在那里。时长被拉长了好多kk实际游戏时长可能60h左右。 培养箱繁殖高等级品种真的给人一种开盲盒的感觉,不过有时候繁殖了好多次还是不出金真的会特别恼火……说的就是你鼠妇! 什么时候才能拿到bug成就啊,强迫症真的难受。
优点:对于喜欢养成类游戏的人来说很解压,而且挂机能自己赚钱挺不错的,可以把生态箱设置成桌面壁纸,也可以操作,上班摸鱼不易被发现,收集图鉴的过程也很有成就感 缺点:那个猎食关系,需要一个一个点看是谁跟谁有猎食关系,太麻烦了,如果可以直接在下面的猎食关系显示是哪两种虫子就好了,不用一只一只去点,太恼火了,好几次点的我边骂边点 个人槽点:因为我有点强迫症喜欢根据等级分类,金色放一个箱子,紫色放一个箱子,绿色放一个箱子,猎虫蝽一放进去就跟老鼠屎一样,我真没招了,只能单独放,这点就很难受🥹
一开始还以为很讨厌虫子会玩不了,但其实还好,有些虫虫还是很可爱的嘛。 收集图鉴很有成就感,最喜欢的是造景模式,太爱造景了!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 装饰景物随着时间变化也会带来超多惊喜,捣药月兔过几天脚边多出一个小药包,女巫的锅里慢慢煮了好多骨头是怎么回事,香蕉由青变黄再变棕,原来竹荪长大会脱帽子,姜饼屋会被吃掉(我也想吃啊喂 总之心思已经不在虫虫上了,看着植物长大,看着景物变迁,原来这就是时间的魔力吗?
挺好玩的,现实里害怕虫子但是玩这个没啥影响,向导说话也挺可爱的就是语录太重复了 后期繁殖有点心累,时间又长还总不出金我还以为虫子基因不行 话不多说都给我进繁殖箱教培吧。
So much to do in this game! i regularly fell asleep to the music in this game while waiting for enough money to level up *that one thing!* Cozy, cute, never ending game for even the grindiest of people! Great for those wfh gigs, or people in the office looking for something fun to pop into every so often!
I adore this game! I really didn't think I'd love it as much as I do! I'm 2 acheivements away from 100%ing, because I've not focused enough on breeding for rarity (well, I am now!) but I've sunk so many hours into this game just to watch my bugs! I love having it run in the background whilst working or reading. The music is really relaxing too. There was a week where I didn't log on (for the achievement) and honestly, it was sooo difficult not to open the game to check up on how my little critters were doing!
this is letting me get all the bugs my lil autistic brain needs thank you so much fun very additive
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Bugtopia is a super cute idle game where you buy, raise, breed, and sell bugs to earn money to unlock the next breed of bug (or fish) to place in your tank and/or buy decorations. This game took me about a week to play and achievement hunt, only "technically" stretching my playtime to two weeks since there's an achievement for not logging in for seven days. I enjoyed my time with the game, but I have a few minor complaints. I think breeding needs to be tweaked a bit because currently the cocoon phase is the most boring part of waiting in this game. The increase in income you get from them in exchange for not being able to speed them up is abysmal. I understand that, realistically, you wouldn't be able to feed a cocoon, but I think the timer should be cut to half of what it currently is. I also think the option to delete eggs should be added because, when breeding several of the same bug, I might get my next upgrade out of all eight tanks, but now I have to wait for the eggs to hatch just so I can yeet them and move my next breeding pair in. My second complaint is about tank decor. I think you should be able to layer items in the tanks. I understand this might cause some issues with bugs climbing behind multiple items, but it sucks that I put a large piece of driftwood in my tank and now I can barely put anything else in there because the items would overlap. I also believe you should be able to move the rock that comes in the tanks. It's usually placed in a spot where I want to put other things. I'm also not the biggest fan of having to reroll the store for decorations, but that's probably more of a me problem than anything. Other than that, I can't find much fault with the game. I'm not a huge fan of bugs in real life, but they were super cute here, and I enjoyed taking care of them. I recommend it to any fellow cozy idler fans out there.
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