Games like Chance of Rain

84%Game Brain Score

story

graphics, gameplay

84% User Score Based on 335 reviews

Gridworld is an artificial life / evolution simulator in which abstract virtual creatures compete for food and struggle for survival. Conditions in this two-dimensional ecosystem are right for evolution to occur through natural selection.

70%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

story, grinding

70% User Score Based on 250 reviews

Seed, Breed, Create. From single cell organisms to complex ecosystems. Evolve every part of your own unique aquarium / terrarium by applying realistic principles of natural and artificial selection, in Creatura - ultimate Virtual Evolution Vivarium Simulator.

93%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 2,395 reviews

"Equilinox", the low-poly nature simulation game that I'm currently developing in Java using OpenGL.

67%Game Brain Score

music, graphics

story, replayability

67% User Score Based on 961 reviews

Control a pond's ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is an ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the lake and see how they...

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!

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.

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.

NeuraQuarium simulates a basic aquatic environment populated by AI creatures. Watch them evolve and change through chance, or take a hand in their evolution by molding the environment, mixing in saved critters, or directly altering their neural net brains. Check out this showcase: Evolution in Action The first creatures that spawn will have randomized physiology and  neural nets. Those that succ…

90%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

91% User Score Based on 7,062 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 1 reviews

Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

78%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

optimization, stability

78% User Score Based on 468 reviews

Grow and modify an ecosystem, with simulated evolution by natural selection creating the lifeforms that inhabit it. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game. None were hand-edited!