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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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-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
$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
$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
$8.99Powdertron
6 days ago · SalE
Both: Sandbox · Science · Relaxing
A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.
SandboxSimulationBuildingSciencePhysicsTutorial2DCasualRelaxingColorful
-60%$9.99Reus 2
May 28 · Abbey Games
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
God GamePuzzleColony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingManagementStrategyResource ManagementSandboxNature👍 2,137
$4.99POWDR
3 days ago · SUBLIMINAL SOFTWARE
Both: Sandbox · God Game
POWDR is a high performance interactive particle sandbox featuring realistic fluids, sands, solids, interactions, and more! Every pixel is simulated. Every material interacts. Every experiment can become a catastrophe.
SimulationCasualSandboxPhysicsImmersive SimDestructionPixel GraphicsAbstractGod GameColorful
$44.99ARK: Survival Ascended
Oct 25 · Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
Both: Sandbox
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerDinosaursBase BuildingCraftingBuildingAdventureSandboxAction👍 106,877
$19.99Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
Mar 26 · Tomas Sala
Both: Experimental · Sandbox
Bulwark blends casual and creative building elements with touches of strategy and exploration. It's an experimental mix of genres that can be enjoyed casually or as an epic conquest featuring naval units, air units, and fortresses.
CasualProcedural GenerationMinimalistCity BuilderExperimentalBase BuildingOpen WorldBuildingSandboxSteampunk👍 1,381
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: Sandbox
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$15.99Aquarist
Mar 29 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing
Build beautiful aquariums, care for exotic marine life, complete creative customer jobs, and grow your own aquarium business into a world-class oceanarium in this relaxing sandbox simulation.
SimulationSandboxManagementFishingIndieCasualEducationRelaxingFamily FriendlyFirst-Person👍 950
-33%$40.19Jurassic World Evolution 3
Oct 21 · Frontier Developments
Both: Sandbox
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
SimulationDinosaursStrategySandboxCity BuilderSequelManagementActionResource ManagementEconomy👍 11,412
$24.99Flotsam
Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Sandbox · Real-Time with Pause
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimCity BuilderSandboxResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,309
$14.99Once Upon The Universe
May 29 · Paweł Witkowski ByteEncode
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Once Upon The Universe is a god-game that takes you to the VERY beginning of creation. You begin the game just after the big bang, with nothing but an empty space and a lot of super hot hydrogen in the entire universe. Fill the universe with life and watch it thrive - or destory it.
God GameSpace SimSandboxLife SimSpaceStrategySimulationPixel GraphicsSci-fiIndie
-15%$12.74Biovoid
3 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
$19.99Dinkum
Apr 22 · James Bendon
Both: Relaxing · Sandbox
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Open World Survival CraftAgricultureRelaxingCo-opFarming SimLife SimFarmingCraftingSimulationSandbox👍 24,646
$21.99Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
Feb 28 · WinterSpring Games
Both: Sandbox
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Early AccessSimulationOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalLife SimSandboxRPGFarming SimRoguelikeCard Game👍 1,136
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Sandbox
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
-65%$8.74Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
Feb 22 · stillalive studios
Both: Relaxing · Sandbox
Garden Life is a relaxing gardening game in which you create your dream garden in a peaceful, colourful world. Plant and add ornaments at your own pace, transforming an overgrown forgotten plot into a flourishing community garden.
RelaxingSimulationCozySingleplayerCasualFarming SimIndieSandboxCuteFamily Friendly👍 899
-20%$31.99inZOI
Mar 27 · inZOI Studio
Both: Sandbox
"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.
Life SimCharacter CustomizationSimulationRealisticSingleplayerBuildingFamily FriendlyRomanceSandboxSexual Content👍 30,047
$11.99Genome Guardian
May 7 · Alpherior
Both: Science
COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic roguelite turret shooter with macroscopic depth. Survive 6 modes using an astounding array of turrets, perks, mutations and power-ups on this psychedelic journey to the heart of the abyss. Shmup Mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!
Action RoguelikeShooterRogueliteGun CustomizationRoguelikeTop-Down ShooterSurvivalScienceAtmosphericColorful👍 711
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Real-Time with Pause · Sandbox
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
$14.99Vonkelveld
Jul 2 · Software MoosS
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Shape a living god-sim where every spark is a soul. Zoom from one life to a whole world that curls into a torus; raise land, call rain, touch one fate, and ask why any place became itself. Choose what endures; the Chronicle remembers what your hand preserved.
Early AccessSimulationStrategyGod GameColony SimSandbox2.5D2DMinimalistTop-Down
-20%$23.99Space Engineers 2
Jan 27 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSci-fiSimulationPhysicsModdableDestructionOpen World👍 5,102
$24.99Mirthwood
Nov 6 · Bad Ridge Games
Both: Sandbox
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
RPGFarming SimSandboxOpen World Survival CraftMedievalImmersive SimCraftingFishingExplorationManagement👍 2,242
$14.99Planet Centauri
Dec 12 · Permadeath
Both: Sandbox
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
SandboxExploration2DPixel GraphicsCreature CollectorOpen WorldColorfulMiningIndieCrafting👍 2,102
FreeVoxelMancy
May 29 · Reuniko
Both: Sandbox · God Game
Online voxel sandbox where you can build anything imaginable. Forget simple cubes – sculpt slopes, curves, and structures of any size with many realistic materials. Your imagination is the only limit!
Early AccessVoxelBuildingSandboxProcedural GenerationLevel EditorFantasyChoose Your Own AdventureGod GameCharacter Customization
$19.99One Lonely Outpost
Mar 6 · indie.io
Both: Sandbox
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Farming SimColony SimSandboxIndieSpaceLife SimPixel GraphicsAgricultureBase BuildingRPG👍 539
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Sandbox
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$2.99Row Divers
May 16 · hermurx
Both: Experimental · Relaxing
Row Divers is a short, experimental incremental game about diving into dungeons in the form of rows, shooting enemies, collecting resources, and upgrading your bow to conquer the depths!
IncrementalCasualActionExperimentalFantasyRelaxingDungeon CrawlerResource ManagementProcedural GenerationSingleplayer👍 187
-50%$9.99The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Jan 31 · MAXIS
Both: Sandbox
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
SandboxBuildingManagementLife SimCasualSimulationCharacter CustomizationAtmosphericSingleplayerImmersive Sim👍 2,329
-60%$1.99Super Mining Mechs
Oct 25 · Delayed Victory
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Online Co-OpSide ScrollerCollectathonSandboxCharacter CustomizationMechs2DRelaxingSteampunkUnderground👍 844
-50%$9.99Microtopia
Feb 18 · Cordyceps Collective
Both: Sandbox
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Colony SimAutomationProcedural GenerationResource ManagementSandboxSci-fiRobotsFuturisticBase BuildingCity Builder👍 881


