Games like BugLab Simulator

If BugLab Simulator left you wanting something colorful and relaxing, you have options. These games could fill that gap nicely.

Bugtopia
Raise over 300 adorable bugs in your own hand-drawn terrarium. Breed them for rare species, decorate with hundreds of landscaping items, and let a tiny piece of nature hum quietly on your screen while you work or unwind.
Also in Cozy · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
92% of 885 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$5.99
Ant Keeping Simulator
Grow, feed and care for your colony of mighty ants in a realistic semi-idle simulation of ant keeping. Created in collaboration with ant keeping enthusiasts, Ant Keeping Simulator will be an accurate experience to ant keepers.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Cute
88% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
Beetle Uprising
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Colorful, Cute
72% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Monster Lab Simulator
Run your own monster lab: buy strange essences, hatch cute creatures called Fulus, merge them into stronger forms and sell or battle them. A colorful, relaxed creature collector with 20 families to discover, a lab to expand and one pair of eyes watching you. Early access, and it shows, but the hatching loop is a good time.
Also in Tycoon · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
71% of 523 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$12.99
Budgie's Bug Shop
Catch bugs with your cursor, sell them to budgies, and grow a bird-powered shop empire. A short, cozy incremental game with 50-plus species to collect, upgrades to chase and a number that only goes up.
Also in Cozy · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
96% of 1,135 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$5.99
Microtopia
Microtopia hands you a colony of robot ants and one goal: reproduce. Draw pheromone trails instead of conveyor belts, sort your workers with sensors and logic gates, feed the queen and raise young queens that fly off to start colonies of their own. A factory game where the belts have legs, and an expiry date.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
87% of 895 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
Swarmdustry
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
88% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Bug & Seek
Catch 200+ real life bugs in this peaceful creature collector. You’ve bought the local insectarium (bug zoo) in the cozy town of Buggburg, so start swinging your net to build your dream bug collection and create the best insectarium Buggburg has ever seen.
Also in Cozy · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
89% of 208 Steam reviews are positive$10.49
Farm Factory Simulator
Grow crops, build automated production lines, and run your own farm shop. Farm Factory Simulator turns a small plot of land into a humming farm-to-market business, one conveyor belt at a time. Calm, low-pressure, and quietly addictive: the kind of game where "one more upgrade" becomes three in the morning.
Also in Cozy and Tycoon · Relaxing
94% of 111 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$9.74
Bugaboo Pocket
A relaxing, semi-idle pet game starring bugs from land, air and sea! Play as a research scientist living in a cabin with just your bugs and a penpal for company. Spoil them with pets, minigames, food and furniture. Raise and release bugs to help Beetleback Ridge recover from a devastating fire.
Also in Cozy · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
85% of 311 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Eggstreme Farming
Run a first-person egg farm with chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. You unpack birds into their pens, keep them fed, watered, and vaccinated, gather eggs into trays, and sell them to fund more pens, better feed, and automation. Simple, busy, and easy to lose an evening to.
Also in Cozy and Tycoon · Relaxing, Cute
75% of 216 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$6.99
Zombie Cure Lab
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
65% of 393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99

Cheaper than BugLab Simulator

Bugtopia

Breed over 300 adorable bugs, decorate their terrarium, and watch a calm little world grow at your own pace.

$5.99

Budgie's Bug Shop

Scoop up colorful bugs, trade them to hungry budgies and turn a tiny shop into a cheerful bird-run business, all at your own pace.

$5.99

Insect Simulator

Choose an insect, develop a colony, join the fray!

$4.99

Farm Manager 2018

Plan fields and hire hands, then turn your harvests into cheese, juice and a healthy budget, one season at a time.

$1.99

Farm Manager 2021

Sow crops, tend animals and turn a small plot into a working estate at a calm, unhurried pace.

$3.99

Earthtongue

Care for a miniature ecosystem in a strange world, exert limited influence to encourage the growth of different fungi and bugs and try to maintain…

$4.99

Ant Farm Simulator

Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of…

$0.99

Husbandry

As an entrepreneur from a far away galaxy, raise and breed the exotic creatures of Earth, then sell them back to your home world.

$1.99

DesktopAnt

Build your own ant nest on the computer desktop, placing food and items. Ants will forage, gather, and carry food.

$1.79

Cropolution

In Cropolution, you’re not just a farmer—you’re a pioneer in the future of agriculture!

$4.99

Pocket Gecko

A cute gecko lives on your screen! Capture bugs, keep them for special bonuses or sell them to buy upgrades and customize your gecko.

$2.99

Micro Macro Farm

Micro Macro Farm is a small, cozy farming game made to sit beside the rest of your day.

$5.99

Hidden gems like BugLab Simulator

Budgie's Bug Shop

Scoop up colorful bugs, trade them to hungry budgies and turn a tiny shop into a cheerful bird-run business, all at your own pace.

$5.99

Farm to Table

Grow, catch and cook your own ingredients, then serve them at a hillside restaurant you build up at your own pace.

$14.99

Farm Factory Simulator

Plant crops, automate the work with conveyor belts, and sell the harvest in your own farm shop.

$9.74

Research Story

Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm!

$14.99

Bugtopia

Breed over 300 adorable bugs, decorate their terrarium, and watch a calm little world grow at your own pace.

$5.99

MR FARMBOY

MR FARMBOY is a cozy pixel-art colony farming game about turning a small plot into a humming farm that mostly runs itself.

$9.99

Microtopia

Grow a robot ant colony by drawing pheromone trails, sorting workers and raising new queens, all at your own calm pace.

$19.99

Ranch Farm and Store Simulator

Run a farm and its store from the ground up: raise animals for eggs, milk and meat, grow crops, then stock your own shelves and set the prices.

$7.79

Alien Market Simulator

Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers.

$12.99

Bugaboo Pocket

A relaxing, semi-idle pet game starring bugs from land, air and sea!

$19.99

Center Station Simulator

You inherit a shopping center in the middle of the desert and build everything it sells yourself.

$19.99

Minsgon Simulator

Hatch mysterious eggs and discover over 150 Minsgon species!

$9.99

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