
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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Languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 44 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
I've become quite attached to my little pixel insects.
Bugs... There's a few issues with the translations to english (Devs hit me up I'm a good writer), and the game is pretty slow at first, but after a little while it's very chill and fun :)
As with all the idle games I've played recently, the soundtrack never misses. Gameplay-wise, this one has a grind reminiscent of Tiny Pasture where you have to raise animals/bugs and sell them to make more money to get more bugs, and so on. So the progression in the beginning is pretty slow and if you get frustrated by sub-dollar amounts you'll be a little disappointed by that lol. Don't even think about cute decorations until you've got a decent collection of bugs either. I just found it peaceful to work along to the music while the bugs were off doing whatever bugs do. On another note, I'm a little curious what led to the addition of "entomophobia protection" mode in the settings. The list of possible fears is longer than I thought: spiders, roaches, moths, millipedes, grasshoppers, beetles, even snails... I would like to think that anyone with such a fear of bugs that it extends to cartoon versions, would probably know to avoid a game like this. Hopefully those settings never have to be used in practice...
一个养虫子的放置游戏,等花开的时间居然更有意思。目前没解锁地下虫虫(有吗?不理解这么多缸形堆这么高土是干嘛,株形比较高的植物都没有办法完全展示。装饰手感比较一般,堆叠挪动不方便,遮挡无高亮只能挪前景,实在不行加个锁定呢。目前解锁到蛱蝶,壁纸都不好看,所有缸都只用黑夜壁纸。
纯挂机游戏,虫很逼真种类很多,装饰物也比较丰富,挂机放着偶尔看看还不错 但繁殖箱实在难用,没法控制把虫放进哪个箱、没法在不同繁殖箱之间移动、没法在繁殖箱里把虫直接卖掉等等,什么方便操作都干不了,繁殖一轮要来回挪半天虫,收集图鉴全靠这个,操作又这么不便利,让人没有繁殖图鉴的动力
roly poly bug (isopod) in game AND the guide!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is letting me get all the bugs my lil autistic brain needs thank you so much fun very additive
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!
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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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