Games like Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
Looking for games like Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution? Here are top simulation recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Sapling, Ecosystem or Saurian.
1 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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78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, stability78% User Score 468 reviewsGrow 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!
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59%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, stability59% User Score 1,342 reviewsSaurian is a video game project focused on living as a dinosaur in a dynamic open world through intense, survival-based gameplay.
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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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91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, story91% User Score 1,015 reviewsThrive 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.
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62%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, stability60% User Score 1,030 reviewsCritic Score 65%19 reviewsFrom the legendary creator, Mr. Yasuhiro Wada (TOYBOX Inc.), comes Birthdays the Beginning: a new sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms. With careful experimentation, players can shape the geography and alter the temperature of each world to create the conditions for life and witness the birth of an entire ecosystem!
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50%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, optimization50% User Score 5,041 reviewsMedieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build cities, castles and fortifications; construct mechanical devices and perform landscaping and underground mining.
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51%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability51% User Score 1,413 reviewsWarning: Game is in early access! Welcome to the mysterious world of Novus Inceptio where new gaming experience of exploring, building and surviving awaits. Explore the true sandbox survival world and take part in the development of the full game.
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46%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, optimization46% User Score 586 reviewsStart with nothing and build an empire. Blockscape is the ultimate block building game. You are sent to this world to start a new civilization. Explore, gather materials, craft and build. Build beds and people will move in. Give them food and they will do work for you. Fully procedurally generated worlds. Every game looks and plays different. Play the game you want. Blockscape can be played like …
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51%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, story51% User Score 1,403 reviewsThe Black Death is a dark multiplayer survival game set during a plague-ridden medieval era.
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