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Desktop Ant Farm Simulator

Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start each farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window persists over other applications on your desktop, and is fully re-sizeable.

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Release Date:

Jan 31, 2026

Developer:

Beef Cat

Publisher:

Beef Cat

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“There are additional features and a lot of polish I would like to add to Desktop Ant Farm Simulator. The core idea of the ant farm is completed, what I want out of it for my personal use. There's a laundry list of ideas and concepts that will make their way into the game over the course of 7-10 updates. Ideas can grow or change based on feedback from the community.

This is my third videogame project and sixth Beef Cat Studios project to date. I know what it takes to take an idea to the finish line. The app in it's current state is something I feel has value to share with an audience. This will continue to grow and improve over time.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Early Access will last around a year. 7-10 patches are planned at semi-regular monthly intervals. These will add new features, expand on existing features, or simply clean the game up. ”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Early Access launches with a full productivity mode, a suite of game window and camera options, and some lo-fi beat tracks. 1.0 will expand on all of that as well as slowly building out a more interactive idle mode.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The current state of the Early Access version is the description in the "About This" section below. This will be regularly updated as things are changed and added to the app.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The game price may increase at 1.0 launch slightly, but not before then.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“All feedback will be taken into account and considered - and implemented when possible. Whether feedback is left in reviews, in discussion boards on the Steam Community Hub, or elsewhere - we plan to pay attention to all thoughts, ideas, and concerns and make a reasonable effort to address them if we are able. The easiest way to let your ideas get seen by the development team would be to create on discussion topic on the Steam Community Hub for the game.”

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About This Game

Vibe With Your Own Digital Ant Farm

Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start a farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window can be fully re-sized and displayed in portrait or landscape. As well as being able to make the screen borderless, it will persist over other windows on your PC or laptop. Set it up in a corner space of the other stuff you're doing on your PC and have a digital ant farm to zone out and distract yourself with. A suite of camera control options allow you to focus on specific ants or take control yourself. The ants are fully autonomous and will dig until they are satisfied with the farm.

Choose Your Level of Interactivity

Productivity Mode starts you with 80 ants with mid-range stats and let's them loose. There is no currency, no purchasing, no upgrading. A pure autonomous digital ant farm. Let it run consecutively and depending on the farm, it can go as long as 48 consecutive hours.

Idle Mode starts you with 1 ant. Every dirt clod they collect translates into currency. Use that to buy more ants and upgrade their stats. All farms get exhausted eventually, but this farm requires your intermittent interaction if it is ever going to go anywhere.

A Suite of Settings

This is at it's core a productivity app. It's not meant to be your main focus. A suite of settings exists to match what kind of desktop ant farm you want. A range of audio settings, visual effects, font choice, and the ability to toggle off the Window Priority if you don't want it persisting over everything. This is in addition to the wide range of camera, zoom, and view orientation options. Resize the window however you see fit. Toggle between portrait and landscape with [ctrl]. Zoom five different levels with [alt]. Make the window borderless with [tab]. The goal is to set up an ant farm buddy that works for you while you go off and do whatever you need on your PC.

Early Access and Save Data

This game is in early access and will be changing a lot over the next several months as things are improved. The foundation of the game was built in a way that the meta level save data should never need to be wiped. That includes stats, settings info, achievements. Farm data may need to be wiped occasionally with larger patches that alter how farms and ants work at their core. This will be planned in a way to accomplish as much editing in a single patch at once so that farm resets can be as infrequent as possible. Thank you for understanding!