Games like Anima mundi

Grow. Adapt. Symbiotize. Welcome to the vibrant, microscopic world of Primordial Empire – a 2D side-view microbial "City" Builder and Simulation game where you master the art of symbiosis and adaptability. Innovative Colony Management Cultivate a thriving colony by growing diverse plants and organisms on any solid surface. Start with basic Stem Cells that eat, grow, divide, or wit…

50%Game Brain Score

graphics, gameplay

optimization, music

50% User Score Based on 164 reviews

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox is an abstract god game with fully simulated genetics and evolution. In a universe driven by targets, create, design and try to control an evolving ecosystem for a faceless corporation.

89%Game Brain Score

music, graphics

grinding, story

89% User Score Based on 276 reviews

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.

Embark on a one-way journey to a distant planet, where your mission is to establish and thrive in a small colony. Returning to Earth is not an option. The rich resources in the region offer a promising start, and with your colonists, you’ve already begun to explore and mine. As in any space mission, danger is everywhere, and you must thrive to survive. You can utilize various resources to establi…

77%Game Brain Score

graphics, music

gameplay, story

77% User Score Based on 74 reviews

Land on an alien world with nothing but your wits, your tools, and your drive to thrive. Build, explore, and automate in this sci-fi resource management game. From humble beginnings to a sprawling space base! Construct your base from scratch using anything you can find - from primitive resources to unknown alien materials. Unlock blueprints, optimize your workflow with automation, and pu…

94%Game Brain Score

gameplay, optimization

graphics, atmosphere

94% User Score Based on 410 reviews

From an uninhabited planet in space to an ecosystem full of life. In Planetary Life you will be able to shape a planet in the purest Sandbox Simulation style, playing with its mountains, seas and even its climate, to create the perfect habitat to harbor life. PLANETS Control a planet with the multiple tools available. Let the tectonic plates shape the mountains and seas, modify the climate, the…

91%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

optimization, story

91% User Score Based on 1,015 reviews

Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life. From the lowly tidepools of your home planet, you will rise to cosmic dominance. At every step, powerful creation tools and deep simulation mechanics will aid your species' development.

74%Game Brain Score

emotional

gameplay, graphics

74% User Score Based on 66 reviews

Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and evolution sandbox game. Protect each species and selectively breed new ones, analyze DNA, craft tools and buildings, dig rivers and make new islands, find ancient tech, and fend off the haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!

76%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

76% User Score Based on 878 reviews

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

StoryAll factories and facilities have long since fallen silent. A harsh, endless winter is closing in. In this post-apocalyptic world, you must lead a small expedition of critters to search for supplies and fight for survival. But be warned: once-friendly large animals have undergone strange, unsettling changes after the catastrophe. They now wander the abandoned facilities… waiting for explorers…