โ–ฒ 24 r/tycoon+1 crossposts

new trailer! honey farm management with bears and bees ๐Ÿป

hey all! ๐Ÿ

We just release a new trailer showing all the new features and visuals of the game! ๐Ÿ’›

Bottled by Bears is a cozy management game about a family of bears running their honey farm. A demo is available if you want to try the game out!

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390080/

Discord Community: https://discord.gg/M6cwrCZawB

AI Disclosure: All assets are hand-drawn and music composed by the team (humans ๐Ÿ™†โ€โ™‚๏ธ). We do use AI tools to make custom editor tooling for development and aid on testing/bug fixing.

u/rethe_ โ€” 3 days ago
โ–ฒ 48 r/ComfortGamers+1 crossposts

demo update! now you can decorate your honey farm ๐Ÿป

We extended the demo to include the ability to place decorations, together with new bears animations for them to sit or lay around for some well deserved rest after working hard ๐Ÿ˜ช

There is also a cute collection of animal garden gnomes you will be able to place around in the full game ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ

Bottled By Bears Demo:ย https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

u/rethe_ โ€” 8 days ago
โ–ฒ 25 r/indiegames

New decoration feature and visual update for our bear honey farm game

We extended the demo to include the ability to place decorations, together with new bears animations for them to sit or lay around for some well deserved rest after working hard ๐Ÿ˜ช

Super excited to finally put this update out! Giving the players more creative freedom to shape the farm as they want :) There is also a cute collection of animal garden gnomes you will be able to place around in the full game ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/
Demo Trailer:ย https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8nAK_junLA

u/rethe_ โ€” 24 days ago
โ–ฒ 10 r/gamedevscreens

Coco's favorite spot ๐Ÿป (big visual update)

Heyo! ๐Ÿ

We are developing Bottled By Bears, a cozy management idle game about a family of bears running their honey farm, finding diverse bees, bottling honey, and decorating your farm.

We just did a big visual update with decorations, animations, and day/night cycle ๐Ÿ˜„

There is also a cute collection of animal garden gnomes you will be able to place around in the full game ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ

Demo is already out! You can try it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

u/rethe_ โ€” 25 days ago
โ–ฒ 24 r/macgaming

Demo mac update! Bears finally have a place to sit and relax a bit ๐Ÿป

Hellooo ๐Ÿ

We have a new update for the demo!๐Ÿ’› New decorations to personalize you farm, new bears animations and resting mechanic ๐Ÿ˜ด, and more! (steam patch notes)

Bottled by Bears is a cozy management idle game about a family of bears running their honey farm.

If you gave the demo a try, let us know what you think! Also if you find any issues, since only-mac ones are hard to find for us ๐Ÿ™‡

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

u/rethe_ โ€” 25 days ago
โ–ฒ 6 r/IndieGaming

New decorations update! Bears finally have a place to sit and relax a bit ๐Ÿป

Hellooo ๐Ÿ

We have a new update for the demo!๐Ÿ’› New decorations to personalize you farm, new bears animations and resting mechanic ๐Ÿ˜ด, and more! (steam patch notes)

Bottled by Bears is a cozy management idle game about a family of bears running their honey farm.

If you gave the demo a try, let us know what you think!

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

AI Disclosure: All assets are hand-drawn and music composed by a human. We do use AI to assist coding (we are two developers), especially useful for making custom editor tooling to help development and testing.

u/rethe_ โ€” 25 days ago
โ–ฒ 74 r/pcgaming

Bottled By Bears demo is out! run a honey farm with a family of bears

Hello r/pcgaming!

We are happy to share that our demo is finally out ๐Ÿ’›

Bottled by Bears is a cozy management idle game about a family of bears running their honey farm, finding diverse bees, bottling honey, and decorating your farm. Total demo playtime should bee (heh) around 30min.

If you give the demo a try, let us know which bee was your favorite ๐Ÿ

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

u/rethe_ โ€” 27 days ago
โ–ฒ 40 r/cozygames

Bottled by Bears new decorations demo update! ๐Ÿป

We extended the demo to include the ability to place decorations, together with new bears animations for them to sit or lay around for some well deserved rest after working hard ๐Ÿ˜ช

Super excited to finally put this update out! Giving the players more creative freedom to shape the farm as they want :) There is also a cute collection of animal garden gnomes you will be able to place around in the full game ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ

Soon you we will update the game with the ability to edit the flower fields (size, placement, which flowers etc) ๐Ÿ’ช

Demo:ย https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

u/rethe_ โ€” 27 days ago
โ–ฒ 365 r/ComfortGamers+9 crossposts

Bottled by Bears Demo Out! ๐Ÿ

Hellooo ๐Ÿ

We are happy to share that our demo is finally out!๐Ÿ’› Bottled by Bears is a cozy management game about a family of bears running their honey farm. Total playtime should bee (heh) around 30min.

If you gave the demo a try, let us know what you think!

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

u/rethe_ โ€” 1 month ago

Bottle By Bears - a cozy management/incremental where you run a honey farm

Hey all!

We finally have a playable build to show here ๐Ÿ, we are currently running a playtest which covers what the steam demo will be (~30min gameplay).

If you have the time after you are done playing (at any point), we would be very grateful if you could fill the quick feedback form. No biggie if not! just have fun :P

The game is about a family of bears running their honey farm, you collect rarer and better bees, which make better honey, sells for more, upgrade/decorate the farm, and so on.

Small note, it's on the 'softer' side of incrementals, since it does not have a prestige mechanic. Getting to the late game, collecting everything, etc will surely take a long time in the full game, but the farm you create does not reset.

Let us know what you think! ๐Ÿป

Playtest demo: https://monoiistudio.itch.io/bottled-by-bears
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390080/
Discord: https://discord.gg/M6cwrCZawB

AI Disclosure: All assets are hand-drawn and music composed by a human. We do use AI to assist coding (we are two developers), especially useful for making custom editor tooling to speed up development and testing.

u/rethe_ โ€” 3 months ago
โ–ฒ 3 r/playtesters

Playtest demo of our cozy management game of bears running a bee farm

To join, you can download the game here: itch.io page

There is a feedback form link there as well which would be awesome if you could fill in after you are done playing.

The feedback of this playthrough is vital to us ๐Ÿ™ we will do the final tweaks based on it before uploading the demo to Steam , so don't hold back! we need the good and especially the bad.

This time around, we are supporting:

  • Windows
  • English and Spanish
  • Mouse & Keyboard

*Controller support is not done yet, you could use it, but if you run into any issues (expected), press 'Select' to make the cursor appear or switch back to mouse

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u/rethe_ โ€” 3 months ago

[PAID] Looking for Japanese game localization for our cozy game

Hello! ๐Ÿป

We are looking for Japanese localization for Bottled By Bears, a cozy management idle game about a family of Bears running a honey farm.

The game is not heavy on text, mostly instructions and UI + some creative names for the bees you collection (though I guess we could leave them in katakana and use the English name).

All in all, I imagine the amount of words would be:
- Store description: about 200 words
- Game so far: ~1200 words
- What's left: maybe ~200-300 extra words

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390080/Bottled_by_Bears/

If anyone is interested please leave a comment or DM me ๐Ÿ™‡ - if you have some past localized titles to refer us to, even better.

u/rethe_ โ€” 3 months ago
โ–ฒ 339 r/chilegames+4 crossposts

[PROMO] announcement trailer of our bee packs opening game ๐Ÿ

hey all! ๐Ÿป

A few weeks ago we shared a gif ofย Bottled By Bears๐Ÿฏย here with a warm reception๐Ÿซฐ, our upcoming cozy management game about a family of bears running their honey farm where you open bee packs as the main mechanic (so, you need to bee lucky, he).

As motioned in the previous post, it's on the softer side of gacha: one-time purchase (Steam first in 2026, then likely console and mobile), all is in-game economy.

We finally have ourย announcement trailerย out! Let us know what you think :D

Steam page:ย https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390080/

u/rethe_ โ€” 3 months ago
โ–ฒ 14 r/gamedevscreens

Hey all! ๐Ÿ

We're working on polishing visuals and UI for Bottled By Bears (Steam), a cozy management game where a bear family runs a honey farm. You collect bees, grow flowers, bottle honey types, and decorate.

Looking for feedback on the screenshot selection for promotional material (what else would you like to see shown for example), and their color balance and composition.

Thanks!!

u/rethe_ โ€” 4 months ago
โ–ฒ 39 r/tycoon

hey all! ๐Ÿป

We're a small team working on Bottled By Bears ๐Ÿฏ, a cozy management game where you grow a tiny honey farm into a full operation.

You start with a single hive and slowly expand. Open beepacks to discover bees > rarer bees produce better honey, which also depends on the flowers that grow in the field. You sell jars to regular customers and also fill big bulk orders for specific honey types, which means building a smart bee roster on the limited hive space to actually pull them off.

Aside from that there are also collection (bees and jars) and decoration mechanics if you want to personalized your farm :D

Steam page is up to wishlist if it looks interesting to you! (releasing in 2026)

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390080

let us know your first impressions! ๐Ÿ™Œ

No AI used for assets visuals: all the game final assets are hand-drawn! our artist joined 3 months ago and we are getting rid of all placeholder assets little by little ๐Ÿซก (thank god)

u/rethe_ โ€” 4 months ago