Games like Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
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Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.
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$17.99The Sapling
Dec 12 · Wessel Stoop
Both: Sandbox · God Game · Science
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Life SimSandboxGod GameScienceNatureArtificial IntelligenceSimulationProcedural GenerationDinosaursAliens👍 1,925
$19.99SPORE™
Dec 19 · Maxis™
Both: God Game · Sandbox · Science
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
God GameOpen WorldSandboxColony SimSimulationExplorationSpaceCasualCuteScience👍 66,890
$1.99Gridworld
Dec 24 · DopplerFrog
Both: Sandbox · Science · God Game
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.
SimulationSandboxArtificial IntelligenceScienceProcedural GenerationManagementColony SimGod GameLevel EditorPixel Graphics👍 238
$4.99Thrive
Nov 26 · Revolutionary Games Studio
Both: Science · Sandbox
An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
SimulationScienceSandboxCharacter CustomizationEducationProcedural GenerationNatureTutorialCasualArtificial Intelligence👍 1,684
$19.99WorldBox - God Simulator
Dec 2 · Maxim Karpenko
Both: Sandbox · God Game
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
SandboxGod GameSimulationPixel GraphicsColony SimDestructionLife SimBuildingArtificial IntelligenceFantasy👍 51,109
$7.99Creature Crafter
Dec 23 · Daniel Lochner
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!
God GameOpen WorldSandboxCharacter CustomizationCreature CollectorSimulationSurvivalMultiplayerSingleplayerCollectathon👍 745
$14.99Vilmonic
Nov 5 · Bludgeonsoft
Both: Sandbox · God Game · Science
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
SimulationNatureSandboxCraftingGod GameCasualScienceAgricultureEducationCreature Collector
$19.99SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
Dec 19 · Maxis™
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Add horror and humor to your universe. Make grotesque beasts or cuddly critters, then watch them do the robot, zombie walk, break dance and more! Includes over 100 new items. 60 New parts 48 New paint options 24 New animations
SimulationOpen WorldGod GameSingleplayerAdventureFunnySandboxCuteStrategyCharacter Customization👍 2,054
$6.99Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
Feb 17 · JoySpark Games
Both: Sandbox · God Game
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
SandboxSimulationGod GameAlternate HistoryPolitical SimWargameIdlerLevel EditorArtificial IntelligenceStrategy👍 8,925
$3.99Tyto Ecology
Apr 14 · Immersed Games
Both: Science · God Game
Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems. Observe interactions like hunting, blooming, and even decomposing! Will your biodome last for decades, or will it experience a total ecosystem collapse? You’re in control!
SimulationIndieStrategyCasualScienceEducationAnimalsDinosaursNatureGod Game👍 414
$4.99The Sandbox
Jun 29 · PIXOWL INC.
Both: Sandbox · God Game
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
SandboxSimulationIndiePixel GraphicsCasualGod GameStrategy2DPhysicsEarly Access👍 524
FreeThe Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
Nov 15 · PIXOWL INC.
Both: Sandbox · God Game
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
SandboxPixel GraphicsFree to Play2DSimulationIndieGod GameActionPhysicsMultiplayer👍 284
$29.99Universe Sandbox
Aug 24 · Giant Army
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Early AccessSimulationSandboxIndieSpaceEducationSpace SimRelaxingPhysicsOpen World👍 27,857
$19.99Birthdays the Beginning
May 9 · Arc System Works, TOYBOX Inc.
Both: God Game · Sandbox
The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
SimulationGod GameSandboxDinosaursSingleplayerCuteCreature CollectorFamily FriendlyCasualVoxel👍 901
-30%$17.49Space Simulation Toolkit
Jun 5 · Pavel Kudinov
Both: Sandbox
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
SimulationSandboxPhysicsEarly AccessIndieArtificial Intelligence2DSpaceSpace SimEducation👍 501
-80%$1.99Natural Instincts: European Forest
Jul 22 · DreamStorm Studios
Both: Sandbox · God Game
Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!
Early AccessCasualSandboxGod GameExplorationStrategy3DCuteEducationTop-Down👍 271
$9.99Equilinox
Nov 23 · ThinMatrix
Both: Relaxing · Sandbox · God Game
Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.
SimulationIndieCasualRelaxingSandboxSingleplayerNatureGod GameGreat SoundtrackAtmospheric👍 2,606
Godus
· 22cans
Both: God Game · Sandbox
If you’ve not had the chance to play our delightful, Zen-like re-genesis of the god game on Windows PC or Mac OS X, there’s never been a better time to do so! Now more than ever, as we’re currently making full use of our opt-in branch by running a rapid build release schedule during our PC-focused sprint.
God GameStrategySimulationIndieEarly AccessSandboxCasualSingleplayerOpen WorldMultiplayer👍 5,893
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$4.99Galimulator
Mar 16 · Snoddasmannen
Both: Sandbox · God Game
Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.
SimulationSandboxStrategyGod GameSpaceIndieSingleplayer👍 478
-25%$5.99Fantasy Map Simulator
Sep 4 · The Stranger
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.
God GameSandboxAlternate HistoryGrand StrategyIdlerPolitical SimLevel EditorArtificial IntelligenceMedievalWar👍 4,194
$4.99Earthtongue
Apr 27 · June Strings
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing · God Game
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 the balance of life.
SimulationIndieNatureSandbox2DRelaxingPixel GraphicsSingleplayerManagementGod Game👍 153
-60%$3.99Reus
May 16 · Abbey Games
Both: God Game · Sandbox
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
God GameStrategyIndieSimulationSingleplayerSandboxCasual2DPuzzleResource Management👍 4,891
FreeCreatures Docking Station
Dec 7 · Creature Labs
Both: Sandbox · Science
Raise and train a troupe of cuddly virtual life creatures that live on a Space Station. Because they have neural network brains, Norns can be taught right from wrong, but because they also have their own, individual personalities, they may not always do what you want.
Life SimCasualArtificial IntelligenceSimulationCuteModdableSandboxScienceDialogue HeavyNonlinear
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
City BuilderColony SimGod GameSandboxBuildingSurvivalManagementSpaceStrategySimulation👍 8,464
$49.99Stellaris
May 9 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Sandbox · Real-Time with Pause
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
SpaceStrategyGrand StrategySci-fi4XExplorationSandboxSimulationMultiplayerReal-Time with Pause👍 142,911
$8.99Ant Keeping Simulator
Jul 29 · Kunstaat
Both: Relaxing · Sandbox
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.
SimulationCasualNatureRelaxingManagementSandboxBuildingEducationIncrementalRealistic👍 120
$44.99Planet Zoo
Nov 5 · Frontier Developments
Both: Sandbox
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
ManagementZooSimulationBuildingSandboxNatureCity BuilderEconomySingleplayerRealistic👍 81,203








