Games like Crescent Loom

"Thrive is a single-player open-world game where you guide the evolution of a single-celled organism on an alien planet, starting from the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Survive in the environment, adapt your species through mutations, and compete with other emerging species in a population dynamics-driven simulation. Gameplay involves both individual cell survival and editing your species' traits to ensure its success."

"Plasma" is a single-player Simulation game that allows players to build and control their own devices using a visual programming tool. With a focus on creativity and engineering, players can construct robots, factories, game worlds, and more, and share their creations with the community through the Steam Workshop. However, the game's gameplay has received poor reviews, with completion taking around 30 hours.

"Niche: A Genetics Survival Game" is a strategy simulation where players manage a tribe of animals, navigating through diverse islands with varying environments. Your goal is to adapt your species to survive, managing their genetics, behaviors, and traits. Overcome challenges such as harsh weather, predators, and limited resources to ensure your species' survival and evolution.

In Other Waters is a narrative-driven game where you play as an AI guide to a xenobiologist, Ellery, who is searching for her missing partner on an alien planet with an oceanic landscape. As you explore the underwater world, you'll uncover the planet's unique life and dark history, while also forming a bond with Ellery. The game features a non-linear narrative that raises questions about the definition of "natural" and "artificial" life in the context of environmental destruction.

Conduct crazy experiments in the Creature Lab! Mix mutagens, analyze their properties, grow bodyparts, and attach them to your test subjects. Manage your inventory, expand your lab, and make sure your hideout is safe. Send your creations into the city to obtain necessary salvage and test subjects!

JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator is a 3D programming puzzle game that allows players to automate and control robots, drones, and other machinery using Python code. Players can solve coding challenges, progress to unlock new features, and improve their programming skills. This game is not for the casual player and requires a basic understanding of programming.

Satellite Command is a real-time satellite building and management simulation game. You are tasked with constructing, deploying, and maintaining satellites to expand humanity's presence in space. Experience realistic orbital mechanics, various challenges, and a dynamic, procedurally generated universe.

"Block'hood" is a single-player simulation game with stellar gameplay, awesome visuals, and outstanding music. As a city planner, you'll create unique neighborhoods from over 200 blocks, while managing resources and avoiding decay. The game encourages experimentation and understanding of ecological city dynamics, but can be bogged down by bugs and requires grinding to unlock new blocks.

"The Bibites" is a simulation game where players observe evolution in action. Each bibite, a small critter, starts with basic genes and no behavior, but mutations can lead to new brain connections and behaviors, such as movement or food consumption, enabling reproduction and energy gain. As time passes, complex behaviors like hunting and stockpiling emerge, with features including procedural sprites, self-awareness, pheromones, material simulation, and grabbing/throwing.

"Earthtongue" is a single-player Science Fiction Simulation game with a stunning soundtrack, where players guide a sunless world of fungi and bugs. The objective is to maintain the ecosystem's balance, with limited goals such as maximizing the ecosystem's health or creating a fungal garden. The game allows players to peacefully observe the unfolding story of this unique world or interact with it through subtle nudges to breed bugs or influence the food chain.