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Gridworld is an artificial life simulator where abstract creatures evolve in a two-dimensional ecosystem, competing for food and struggling for survival. It offers a user-friendly interface to customize simulations and observe evolution in action over hours instead of thousands of years. The game promotes hands-off experimentation, allowing users to tweak parameters and witness creatures adapting to their created environments.

The Sapling is a 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!

"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.

"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."

"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.

"Ecosystem is a single-player strategy game with high-quality graphics and approximately 23 hours of playtime. The game's unique feature is the simulation of evolving virtual creatures, whose bodies, behaviors, and nervous systems are all determined by their synthetic DNA, which can be modified by the player. These creatures evolve on their own to adapt to the physically-simulated ocean environment created by the player."

"Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox" is a simulation game that allows players to create and modify a variety of ecosystems and organisms. Design and evolve creatures with unique abilities, behaviors, and appearances using an intuitive design tool. Observe how your creations adapt to environmental challenges and compete or cooperate with other species in a dynamic, ever-changing world. **Approximately 256 characters

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…

"Among Ripples" is a tranquil exploration and management game set in a serene underwater world. As a small fish, navigate through beautifully hand-painted environments, avoid larger predators, and eat to grow. Your goal is to create your own school of fish and uncover the mysteries of the deep.

Tyto Ecology, also known as Immersed inventor Tyto Online, is a life simulation game that allows players to build and manage their own ecosystems. Through scientifically accurate models, players can observe and manipulate various organisms, weather patterns, and natural disasters. The goal is to maintain a balanced ecosystem while completing missions and quests to unlock new items and habitats.