Games like Project: Phenotype
Looking for games like Project: Phenotype? Here are top survival simulation recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Gridworld, Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox or Vilmonic.
1 84%Game Brain Scorestorygraphics, gameplay84% User Score 335 reviewsGridworld 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.
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2 50%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplayoptimization, music50% User Score 164 reviewsIntelligent 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.
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3 74%Game Brain Scoreemotionalgameplay, graphics74% User Score 66 reviewsVilmonic 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!
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4 75%Game Brain Scoreoptimization, gameplaystability, grinding75% User Score 1,544 reviewsSpecies: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is an evolution simulation with hands on interaction. It allows for direct changes to each creature as well as indirect and gradual environmental changes which affect the species and their evolution.
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5 96%Game Brain Scoregameplay, humorgraphics, optimization96% User Score 165 reviewsWelcome everyone! This is The Bibites A simulation where you are able to watch evolution happen before your very eyes! Each bibite (the small critters you see on the screen) starts off with an empty brain (they do nothing) and pretty basic genes (they all look alike). Through random mutations, one can be spawned with a brain connection that will link two neurons and might trigger a behavior, …
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6 90%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplayoptimization, stability90% User Score 2,090 reviewsThe 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!
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7 Welcome to The Neeblarium — a living terrarium of tiny, curious creatures called Neeblies. Watch them hatch, play, and form shimmering little societies that grow, change, and remember.Dev note: I started this project to explore genetics and emergent behaviors, and it slowly grew into a peaceful little world I genuinely enjoy watching. I hope you find it calming too. At first, you’re simply their …
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8 View Game65%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, replayability65% User Score 825 reviewsDiscover and mine resources for construction, light your way in the dark, explore and expand into your surroundings to advance your research. Capture the diverse, highly-adapted flora and fauna of the deep, but beware: the darkness hides unexpected horrors, with only the light keeping them at bay.
View Game9 88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding88% User Score 120 reviewsA challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Start each run with the hopes of going as deep as you can. Customize your army with different weapons, armour and upgrades. When you inevitably fail, use the knowledge gained to make your next attempts stronger through meta progression upgrades. Hold your ground Once you start fueling your drill, a massive swarm…
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10 94%Game Brain Scoregameplay, optimizationgraphics, atmosphere94% User Score 410 reviewsFrom 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…
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