
A farm simulator on your taskbar. Bring your taskbar to life by raising adorable farm animals while doing other things.
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My Taskbar Farm is a minimalist idle farming simulator for your taskbar. Perfect for playing while you multitask on your PC.

Raise Farm Animals
Start with a chicken and watch it lay eggs while you work. Unlock new animals as you progress, from adorable cows to fluffy sheep and truffle-hunting pigs.
Automate and Build.
Buy drones to help with gathering resources. Upgrade your little bots for greater efficiency.
Purchase aviaries and barns to free up space and focus production in one place. Upgrade buildings to collect and sell products automatically.
Multitasking:
My Taskbar Farm is designed to sit comfortably on your taskbar, letting you manage your farm while doing other tasks, all without demanding much of your attention.
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Languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian
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[h1]얕은 콘텐츠와 무의미한 숫자놀음[/h1] 이 게임의 콘텐츠는 매우 단순합니다. 동물을 키우는 목장을 운영하면서, 그 동물들이 생산하는 부산물을 판매하거나 가공해 판매하는 방식이죠. 문제는 게임이 준비한 실제 콘텐츠가 30분 만에 바닥나버린다는 점입니다. 그런데도 도전과제에서는 터무니없이 높은 목표 수치를 요구하며, 이를 달성하려면 몇십, 몇백 시간을 갈아 넣어야 합니다. 도전과제는 동물들의 1차 생산품과 2차 가공품을 각각 1000개씩 모으는 업적과, 동물을 각각 250마리, 500마리 모으는 업적으로 구성되어 있습니다. 생산품과 가공품은 게임을 켜두기만 해도 시간이 지나며 어느 정도 자동으로 쌓이기 때문에, 몇십 시간 정도 투자하면 충분히 클리어할 수 있습니다. 물론 이마저도 제대로 카운팅되지 않는 문제가 있습니다. 건물에 생산품이 500개 이상 쌓여 있어도 500개 업적이 클리어되지 않는 경우가 발생합니다. 하지만 진짜 문제는 동물 몇백 마리 모으기 업적입니다. 예시로 ‘돼지 250마리 모으기’ 업적을 설명해 보겠습니다. 지금까지 제가 모은 돼지는 82마리이며, 현재 돼지 한 마리를 구매하는 데 필요한 금액은 무려 1,239,284원입니다. 이쯤 되면 돼지의 가치가 엄청나게 높은 줄 알겠지만, 정작 돼지가 생산하는 부산물의 판매 가격은 고작 50원입니다. 이게 맞습니까? 돼지의 초기 가격은 정확히 기억나진 않지만, 아마 500원 정도였을 겁니다. 그런데 500원이던 돼지가 82마리에 도달하자 가격이 거의 2,500배 가까이 뛰었습니다. 그렇다면 250번째 돼지는 대체 얼마일까요? 이런 극단적인 가격 상승은 돼지뿐 아니라 모든 동물에게 동일하게 적용됩니다. 게다가 동물의 종류는 총 4가지이기 때문에, 이 고통을 네 번이나 반복해야 한다는 뜻입니다. 혹시 한 번 업적을 달성하고 나서 동물을 팔고 다시 사면 되는 거 아니냐고 생각하실 수도 있겠지만, 판매 시엔 원금 보존이 되지 않습니다. 대략 10% 정도 손해를 보는데, 현재 돼지 한 마리 가격 기준으로 계산하면 한 마리 팔 때마다 약 123,928원을 잃게 되는 셈입니다. 거기에 돼지의 부산물은 1차 생산품중에 2번째로 비싼 생산품이기에 판매하는것이 사실상 손해입니다. “동물의 1차 생산품으로 2차 가공품을 만들면 되는 거 아니냐?”고 생각할 수도 있습니다. 하지만 이 게임의 가장 큰 문제 중 하나는 공간이 턱없이 부족하다는 점입니다. 사용할 수 있는 공간은 단 45칸뿐이며, 이마저도 확장이 불가능합니다. 일반적으로 하단 진행형 게임에서는 좌우로 드래그하여 공간을 넓히는 기능이 제공되지만, 이 게임은 그런 기능이 전혀 없습니다. 초기에 주어진 45칸이 전부이고, 이 안에서 모든 운영을 해결해야 합니다. 이 제한된 공간에 동물을 수용할 헛간과 닭장, 그리고 생산된 부산물을 자동으로 수집하는 로봇까지 배치해야 하니 공간이 정말 턱없이 부족하게 느껴집니다. 가공시설을 본격적으로 설치하려고 하면 당연히 자리를 더 써야 하는데, 현실적으로는 가공을 위한 여유 공간조차 확보하기 어렵습니다. 가공 건물과 가공 로봇에도 문제가 많습니다. 가공 건물은 최대 5개까지 생산품을 비축할 수 있지만, 가공 로봇은 그런거 모릅니다. 로봇은 항상 1개씩만 생산품을 건물에 넣으며, 건물이 작동을 멈춘 상태에서야 다시 1개를 추가로 넣습니다. 문제는 이뿐만이 아닙니다. 건물을 설치한 직후에는 로봇이 자동으로 생산품을 넣지 않으며, 플레이어가 직접 생산품을 넣어줘야만 작동을 시작합니다. 그런데 건물 안에있는 생산품은 인식하지 않기때문에 방목해서 바닥에 있는 생산품을 넣어줘야 합니다. 그럼 “한 번만 넣어주면 계속 작동하는 거 아닌가?” 싶지만, 그마저도 아닙니다. 로봇이 중간에 생산품을 충전하지 않는 현상이 종종 발생합니다. 이유는 불분명하지만, 일정 횟수 후 자동으로 멈추는 건지, 아니면 단순히 불안정한 건지는 알 수 없습니다. 같은 시점에서 넣은 여러 건물중 몇개는 중단되고 몇개는 가동되는걸 보면 그냥 운인거같습니다. 어쨌든 그런 일이 생기면 해당 건물은 직접 다시 생산품을 넣기 전까지 멈춘 상태로 방치됩니다. 이 상황에서 생산품을 다시 넣으려면, 결국 동물을 헛간에서 꺼내 방목하고, 생산품이 나올 때까지 기다린 다음 그것을 직접 건물에 넣어야 하는 번거로운 과정을 반복해야 합니다. "그냥 방목해두면 되지 않나?" 싶을 수 있지만, 그렇게 방치하면 생산품이 쌓이게 되고, 그로 인해 게임에 렉이 발생합니다. 애초에 회수 로봇이 존재하는 이유도 생산품이 쌓이지 않도록 하기 위함인데, 일부러 생산품이 쌓인 상태를 만들게끔 하는 이 시스템 자체가 너무나 비효율적이고 피곤합니다. 이렇게 노력해서 얻은 생산품의 최대 가치는 400원이며, 생산 시간은 2분입니다. 가장 고급 생산 건물만 설치한다고 가정해도 대략 10개 정도밖에 설치할 수 없기 때문에, 결국 2분마다 벌 수 있는 수익은 4000원에 불과합니다. 이 속도로 1,239,284원을 모으려면 약 10시간이 걸립니다. 물론 1차 생산품을 그냥 팔 수도 있긴 하지만, 그중 가장 비싼 것이 개당 100원일 뿐이라 상황이 크게 나아지진 않습니다. 결국 하루 종일 모으고 또 모아서 돼지 한두 마리를 간신히 사고 게임을 끄는 것이 반복입니다. 그런데 이런 과정을 통해 동물 250마리 업적 4번, 500마리 업적 2번을 달성해야 한다니, 정말 어이가 없습니다. 뭐, 게임이 정말 귀엽거나 수직적인 콘텐츠가 있거나, 성취감이나 성장 요소라도 있었다면 이렇게까지 말하지 않았을 겁니다. 하지만 이 게임은 컨텐츠자체가 30분 만에 다 끝나버립니다. 그런데 그런 구조로 몇백 시간을 요구하는 건 정말 너무하지 않습니까? 차라리 "데스크탑 아기 동물 목장"처럼 외형을 바꾸는 노력을 하던가, 새로운 콘텐츠를 추가하던가, 뭐라도 손을 봤어야죠. 이렇게 아무런 노력도 없이, 그저 반복만 강요하면서 시간을 갈아 넣게 만드는 방식은 도저히 이해할 수 없습니다. 진짜 이 정도로 날로 먹어도 되는 겁니까? 현재까지 남겨진 6개의 리뷰는 대부분 게임을 한두 시간 정도만 플레이한 뒤 작성된 것입니다. 이 시점은 콘텐츠가 거의 끝나가는 시점이면서 도전과제 등은 신경 쓰지 않는 경우라, 긍정적인 리뷰가 주로 남겨진 것으로 보입니다. 하지만 게임의 본질을 끝까지 파고들거나, 도전과제까지 모두 해보려는 사람들에게 이 게임은 그저 고통일 뿐입니다. 단순 반복과 비효율적인 시스템, 과도하게 요구되는 시간 소모까지. 이 게임은 그저 악일 뿐입니다.
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Note: This shovelware interferes with the normal operation of the Windows taskbar and may render your Windows desktop unusable until you close the app. My Taskbar Farm isn't really a proper game, it's just a lazy 2D browser/Flash-tier "number incrementer" game where the object of the game is to increase the in-game currency by clicking, and sometimes buying things that increase the rate at which your currency/score goes up. It's an incredibly shallow game loop, to the point you might as well just run a program that does "i=i+1; print i" and watch the numbers go up automatically, and just watch it. You'd get the exact same outcome. If this sounds completely mindless, you're not wrong. This one is from the asset flip scammers and review manipulators at Rising Moon Games, famous for using fake reviews to try to get YOUR money for other people's game assets. This time they are pushing an incredibly lame ripoff of Rusty's Retirement, a taskbar toy that gives you a little clicker farm with pixelcrap animals on it. Given the developer prior history of stealing the work of others for profit, it's likely this is a similar scam. It also doesn't work; they screwed up how the app sits over the taskbar and prevents many Windows UI elements from working properly. Rising Moon Games have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. One example of Rising Moon Games doing this is [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1997070]HEN, CHICKS AND CATS[/url], which is really the "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/cube-world-full-131386]Cube World[/url]" asset, written by the actual developers, Polysquid. Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 9 players, and the worst part is these weren't genuine players, these were the Russian fake review accounts that the developer paid to make the fake reviews. Since the fake reviews are all done, now the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 130,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. [quote][b][url=https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/16-cfr-part-465-trade-regulation-rule-use-consumer-reviews-testimonials-final-rule]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/b] This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian, broken English or ChatGPT AI slop, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product. Due to the 2024 FTC ruling (16 CFR Part 465), these fake reviews are a violation of US Federal Law.[/quote] So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 130,000+ games on Steam? My Taskbar Farm has the gamer gouging price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. For comparison, the $4 asking price for this game could get you games like "Warhammer: Vermintide 2", "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" or "The Forest". No pixelcrap is worth $4. If developers want to get paid the same kind of money as real game developers who know how to do graphics properly, they need to learn how to do graphics properly. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
Edit: WARNING: This is a 'Dump and Go' developer. As of February 2026, this game hasn't been updated since its May 2025 launch. The developer (Rising Moon Games) has even scrubbed this game from their official website to hide it, while they push their next release, Sokocat: Castaway (Feb 25, 2026). They use the 'Idle' mechanics to inflate your playtime so you can't get a refund before you realize the game is broken. DO NOT BUY. TL;DR Pros: Cute concept and idea for a taskbar farm game. Cons: Automation bots sell everything instead of feeding factories, lab feels pointless once fully upgraded and unclear if perks persist after deleting it, punishing animal pricing, pigs overwhelm the map, almost no UI/system options, and the overall experience feels half-finished. Overall: Tries to be a cozy idle farm, but ends up feeling chaotic and stressful instead. It works just enough to pull you in, then falls apart. -------------------------------------------------------------- I went into My Taskbar Farm looking for a chill, cozy idle game, but it ended up feeling more stressful than relaxing. The automation robots are the biggest issue. The ground bots keep selling everything instead of taking items to the correct buildings. They constantly grab eggs and milk to sell instead of dropping them at the mayonnaise factory or cheese press, which completely defeats the purpose of setting up production lines and “automating” anything. The lab building is another source of frustration. I upgraded everything in the lab very quickly, and once it was fully upgraded it just sat there taking up space. I wasn’t sure whether the perks would remain if I deleted it to make room, and after removing the lab I couldn’t buy it again to test anything, which makes the whole system feel unfinished and confusing long term. Animal pricing ramps up in a way that feels punishing instead of rewarding. Every new animal costs dramatically more than the last, so expanding your farm becomes frustrating rather than satisfying. There’s a barn for large animals like sheep, alpacas, and cows, but nothing to contain pigs, so if you aim for achievements and end up with 50+ pigs, they’re just everywhere and the farm becomes a cluttered mess. On the technical/UI side, it’s surprisingly rigid for a “taskbar” game. You can’t move the game window, adjust UI size, or change basic system settings like FPS. The options menu is extremely barebones: just a simple video toggle (vsync or always on top), language selection, and music/sound sliders. For a game that’s supposed to sit on your screen while you do other things, the lack of control is really noticeable. I’ve been burned out and specifically looking for simple idle/clicker/cozy games where I can mostly relax and check in occasionally. Instead, I’d honestly rather micromanage inventory in something like Cyberpunk, where the management at least has meaningful impact, than fight with this game’s automation and UI constraints. After reading other negative reviews mentioning suspiciously glowing ratings, I can understand why some players feel that way. The game works just enough to pull you in with its premise, but the more you play, the more it ended up feeling like a half-finished project to me. I picked it up on sale for under a dollar, and even at that price it doesn’t feel worth it. If you’re looking for a genuinely chill, mostly passive farm/idle experience, this probably isn’t it.
tl;dr: If you don't care about achievements, enjoy! If you do, avoid for now. Man, I really can't recommend this one in good conscience with how it feels. The other reviews were left way sooner into playing and don't seem to encounter the same frustration I am. I'm sorry to the dev, this is cute and I'm sure it took a lot of work, but it just hasn't been tested enough and feels slapped together. The achievements are just plain unfair with the price scaling for animals. The game is lacking VERY needed upgrades (like upgrading barns/coops for more storage) and most of it feels like a chore if you want the achievements. I'll leave a longer list of comments in the Discussions section if you're interested. That said, it doesn't appear the dev is checking that, either. :,3 It's a shame, this game is darn cute and a few improvements would make it really comfy and nice.
i am finally free.
Still needs quite some tweaking, but it has potential.
Jogo bemm mais ou menos. Cheio de limitações. Enfim, só fiquei pra pegar conquista mesmo.
A very simple desktop biome farm that sits on your taskbar... Though there's a sort of activity going on, you might find it lacking due to, well... lack of decorations, lack of cute animals, lack of a lot of features other competitors offers. What we get after sometime playing... is just watching busy drone running up and down the taskbar doing their job while most of the animals are being kept in building to avoid clustering... But for the discounted price where i got it, it's worth it nonetheless. So I'll recommend to buy this only if you wanted a quick one that can easily bored you out, and only recommend to get it on discount.
Muito interessante literalmente tem como ter uma fazenda realmente no seu monitor!!!
Cute little idle incremental game, really liked the adorable pixel animals.
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