My First Ant Farm
Launches 30 September 2026 · PC · Casual, Simulation
A cozy, casual ant farm. One queen and her small colony of black garden ants (Lasius niger) live on your desk. Give them sugar, protein and a little water, then sit back and watch them dig a nest that grows for as long as you keep playing. No winning, no losing. Just the wonder of nature.
Story
A cozy, casual ant farm A red plastic tank, a few centimetres of sand, and one queen with her first few workers, just breaking out to the surface. You give them sugar, protein and a little water. They do everything else. There is nothing to win and nothing to lose, and no clock but the ants' own. It is the ant farm you had as a kid, except for one important difference - this colony has a queen, allowing you to see the full lifecycle of this wonderful creature. Watch a nest grow The colony starts sealed in a single chamber. The first workers cut their way up to the light, carry the sand out grain by grain, and heap it beside the door. Then they dig: a staging room under the entrance, nurseries for the eggs, the larvae and the cocoons, a larder for the food you bring, a royal chamber for the queen, and a midden for what is left over. Every room is dug to a plan the colony made when it was founded, and every tank's plan is its own. When those rooms are full, the ants keep digging. Keep playing long enough and the whole tank is honeycombed. Real ants, doing real things These are black garden ants, Lasius niger, the ant of every pavement and garden wall. The colony follows the...
Gameplay
A cozy, casual ant farm A red plastic tank, a few centimetres of sand, and one queen with her first few workers, just breaking out to the surface. You give them sugar, protein and a little water. They do everything else. There is nothing to win and nothing to lose, and no clock but the ants' own. It is the ant farm you had as a kid, except for one important difference - this colony has a queen, allowing you to see the full lifecycle of this wonderful creature. Watch a nest grow The colony starts sealed in a single chamber. The first workers cut their way up to the light, carry the sand out grain by grain, and heap it beside the door. Then they dig: a staging room under the entrance, nurseries for the eggs, the larvae and the cocoons, a larder for the food you bring, a royal chamber for the queen, and a midden for what is left over. Every room is dug to a plan the colony made when it was founded, and every tank's plan is its own. When those rooms are full, the ants keep digging. Keep playing long enough and the whole tank is honeycombed. Real ants, doing real things These are black garden ants, Lasius niger, the ant of every pavement and garden wall. The colony follows the real life cycle: a founding queen feeding her first brood from her own body, the small pale first generation, eggs and larvae carried to the damp end of the nursery, cocoons stacked where it is dry....
Features
- Single-player
- Family Sharing
Developed by Joyner Labs. Published by Joyner Labs.