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  1. You are a tiny protist in a disturbed patch of soil. You're the only one of your kind left, but for you as a microbe, that doesn't have to mean extinction. All you need to do now is eat, divide, and try not to get eaten! The ecosystem around you has been thrown into chaos, but it's slowly repairing itself. Bacteria are actively rebuilding the soil by gluing tiny particles into larger clusters, c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cellscape.

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  2. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, graphics
    93% User Score Based on 477 reviews

    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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Planetary Life.

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    85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, story
    85% User Score Based on 484 reviews

    Sipho is an action survival game with an intricate building system. Grow your own creature and take over the local ecosystem. Fight, grow, survive, dominate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sipho.

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  4. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    65% User Score Based on 787 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    Control the evolution with the touch of your finger. Climb your way through the evolutional ladder. Start as a little organism and transform into a magnificent aquatic being. Explore the abyss in search of nutritional elements. Attack other species whenever you run out of other food sources. Enjoy beautiful surreal visuals and relax with minimalistic ambient soundtrack. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sparkle 2 Evo.

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  5. 87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    87% User Score Based on 2,779 reviews

    Set in a living ecosystem, 'Everything is Crab' is a cute, challenging, highly replayable action roguelite. Make animal inspired evolutionary choices to concoct your own unique creature every run, both mechanically and visually. It's Spore meets Modern Roguelites Beat carcinisation As everybody knows, eventually, every organism ends up evolving into a crab. Right? Well, except for you. Choose your… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.

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  7. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    78% User Score Based on 460 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 5 reviews

    Insurmountable is a strategic adventure game with roguelike elements, in which you have to overcome a dangerous randomly generated mountain. Confront the differing terrains as a lonely mountaineer and make your way through Ice, Snow and Stone. Use items to keep up your steadily sinking stats, while making your way up and down the insurmountable heights. The dynamic and ever-changing weather system… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Insurmountable.

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  8. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, stability
    76% User Score Based on 729 reviews

    In Tyto Ecology, you have the power to create your own biodome and fill it with life! This is a calm, slow-paced game (at least until things start going wrong) that encourages learning through experimentation as you work to sustain, or destroy, life. Up to a year of time can pass while you are away, so you come back to changes in your ecosystem and potentially several problems to handle each time … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tyto Ecology.

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  9. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    90% User Score Based on 2,090 reviews

    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! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Sapling.

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    45%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    45% User Score Based on 74 reviews

    Evolution is a real time simulation of the evolutionary process. Creatures have DNA that defines their structure, traits, how they see the world around them, and how they react to it. Each creature is unique, most die quickly, some die a little slower, and others survive (some just like rocks, they usually die too). It is the survivors that reproduce and mutate, just a little, but enough to adapt … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evolution.

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  11. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    63% User Score Based on 180 reviews

    Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival in the frozen wilderness, where you only need to rely on yourself and your car. Try to survive and find the last remnants of the unfrozen world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Drive 4 Survival.

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  12. Discover the the ancient past with DINODRIFTERS! Explore prehistory as one of the Dinodrifters; a team of time-travelling rangers. Encounter and play as a great myriad of creatures great and small, including Tyrannosaurus, Liopleurodon and Gigantoraptor from every time period all over the globe! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dinodrifters.

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  13. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, story
    77% User Score Based on 324 reviews

    "Drifter Star: Evolution" - The Path from Stardust to Galactic Sovereignty In this unique cosmic evolution game, you will embark on an epic journey across time and space: Core Gameplay: Start as a tiny asteroid and continuously grow by devouring surrounding cosmic matter Evolve through collisions and consumption, progressing through different forms like planets, stars, and black hole… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Drifter Star: Evolution.

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    78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects: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! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ecosystem.

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  16. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, story
    87% User Score Based on 112 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Endhall is a byte-sized roguelike. Become an artificial intelligence and combine tactical actions to defeat your enemies and reach the end of the hallway. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Endhall.

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  17. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    68% User Score Based on 8,436 reviews

    Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer survival game in which the player is a dinosaur or other prehistoric creature. A player can take the role of flyers, swimmers, herbivores, carnivores, and semi-aquatic creatures that fulfill different niches in the ecosystem. No matter what the player chooses to be, the objective of the game is to survive and grow up on the islands of Bermuda by using their parti… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beasts of Bermuda.

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  18. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    78% User Score Based on 1,146 reviews

    Cyberpunkdreamss is an evolving text-based role-playing adventure with countless opportunities, and endless chances for destruction. Take on the role of a lone wanderer sent to the gates of Cincinnati, in the 2090s. The sand from the desert badlands coats your clothes and skin – with your memories torn from you, all you have is a weapon on your hip, and a mission to complete. Enter a living, grow… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to cyberpunkdreams.

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  19. 40%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    52% User Score Based on 29 reviews

    Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Multicellular.

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  20. Primal Legacy drops you into a raw, prehistoric world where dinosaurs rule—and you’re one of them. You start as a tiny hatchling, completely vulnerable, and fight your way up to adulthood. Every moment, you’re managing hunger, thirst, shelter, and staying out of the jaws of bigger predators. You get to pick how you want to play. Go solo and take things at your own pace. Team up with a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Primal Legacy.

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    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, story
    91% User Score Based on 1,172 reviews

    Thrive 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Thrive.

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  22. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    54% User Score Based on 287 reviews

    Step into the amazing world of Sparkle – a surreal ocean, where life is thriving and conditions are perfect to make an evolutionary leap. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sparkle 3 Genesis.

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  23. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, graphics
    88% User Score Based on 1,698 reviews

    Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic idle game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation will have better chances at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Increlution.

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  24. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:optimization, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 1,544 reviews

    Species: 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution.

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    87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    86% User Score Based on 540 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

    Lose yourself in an endlessly satisfying puzzle game set in the midst of a mysterious forest world. Transform your garden by combining plants into strange new forms, and unearth deeply hidden secrets as you become engrossed in the game’s calming rhythm. Wander into the forest and help bring it back to life with the help of Fen, your creature guide. Evergarden may feel familiar at first, but you wi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evergarden.

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  26. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music
    88% User Score Based on 80 reviews

    Nature is a strategy card game of survival and adaptation for 1 to 4 players. In the lush, ever-changing world of Nature, life is a constant battle for survival. Every creature, from the smallest herbivore to the mightiest predator, must adapt or perish. Nature is a digital board game that invites you into the untamed wilderness, where each species' fate hangs in the balance. From the designer … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nature Game System.

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  27. Small Living World is a complete ecosystem simulator. It simulates everything from the full-water cycle, through plant growth, to the animal reproduction. Every pixel is simulated, everything counts. Watch it evolves by itself, or manipulate the system. At the beginning, you have access to a limited number of plants and animals. Populate your world to unlock more advance life forms. Create d… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Small Living World.

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  28. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    83% User Score Based on 225 reviews

    Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Landnama.

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  29. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    73% User Score Based on 1,530 reviews

    Explore Arctico with your dog sled team, kayak, and parachute! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources, take care of your experiments in this peaceful island. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Arctico.

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  30. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects: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... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Among Ripples.

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    59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    59% User Score Based on 1,342 reviews

    Saurian is a video game project focused on living as a dinosaur in a dynamic open world through intense, survival-based gameplay. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Saurian.

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    65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    88% User Score Based on 26 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    In a post-apocalyptic future where Earth's resources have been consumed, Kyle Seed tries to recover capsules containing special seeds and the energy needed to save humanity's future. Big Earth is a platform game with challenging puzzles. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Big Earth.

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    89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects: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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Earthtongue.

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  35. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    69% User Score Based on 803 reviews
    Critic Score 65%Based on 11 reviews

    World War III was one cruel tragedy, at least for the others. You seemed to have a quite nice time, hidden in your fancy penthouse at the Skyhill Hotel... Till the impact of a bio-weapon blew away the life you once knew. Now there are mutants everywhere, and they're eager to rip you to shreds with their vicious claws. But they aren't your only problem: Your supplies are running out. You have to … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SKYHILL.

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    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    76% User Score Based on 878 reviews

    The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Fermi Paradox.

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  37. 57%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    57% User Score Based on 115 reviews

    Vantage is a Primitive Survival Game. Your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to create, hunt, and craft other items to make your life easier. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vantage: Primitive Survival Game.

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  38. About This GameJingjie: Signals is a sandbox focused on emergence and artificial life. There are no scripted events and no predefined outcomes—everything you see arises naturally from rules, interactions, and probability. Developer Note: This game features no tutorials. The system is meant to be observed, not learned. (There is no randomness here. Every signal has a cause.) Living Particles… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Jingjie: Signals.

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  39. 58%Game Brain Score
    58% User Score Based on 9 reviews

    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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to NeuraQuarium.

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  40. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    100% User Score Based on 15 reviews

    Let's Be a Mouse is a fun and engaging game that allows players to experience life through the eyes of a mouse. As the player, you take on the role of a small mouse and must navigate your way through different environments, completing various tasks and challenges along the way.Let's Be a Mouse features intuitive and straightforward gameplay that is easy to learn and fun to play. The game is … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Let 's be a Mouse.

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  41. “The Cleaner” is a fun adventure inside a crocodile’s dark mouth, where shadows lurk and loud breathing echoes. You’re a tiny cleaner bird—fast, brave, and nimble—darting between giant teeth! You scurry with your little feet, and you can even leap to the upper jaw and run upside down—whee, so cool! The teeth in the mouth sing their own tunes. Healthy teeth ring long and clear—ding-dong, like … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Cleaner.

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  42. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 4,294 reviews

    The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game with survival and rogue-like elements. Build a village on the back of a giant, wandering creature, farm crops and forage resources to keep your villagers alive and form a symbiotic relationship with your giant host to survive together in a hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Wandering Village.

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    86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    86% User Score Based on 219 reviews

    Become the Guardian of the Abyss and lead the Great Migration to bring forth the next Crab God Use your growing knowledge and great power to command your loveable crab babies (Crablings) to restore your ocean domain and protect your successor’s egg as you venture into the watery depths. GROW YOUR CRABLING COLONY Raise your Crablings! Nurture their personalities and potential as they worship you,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Crab God.

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  44. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    71% User Score Based on 590 reviews
    Critic Score 56%Based on 2 reviews

    Beyond Contact is a fiercely formidable survival game, inspired by the art and style of pulp science-fiction comics, the moral dilemmas of contemporary science-fiction films, and the unforgiving gameplay of survival genre classics. Taking place on the often mysterious and always deadly, procedurally-generated, alien world of Ketern, Beyond Contact features exploration and discovery, a robust syst… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond Contact.

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  45. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 7,062 reviews
    Critic Score 85%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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Niche: a genetics survival game.

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  46. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    86% User Score Based on 3,010 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

    Shelter is a survival video game developed by Might and Delight for Windows and Mac. It was released on 28 August 2013 after being accepted through Steam Greenlight. In the game players control a mother badger who must protect and feed her cubs while travelling from their burrow to a new one. During the journey the cubs must be fed and are in danger from threats such as birds of prey and wildfire… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shelter.

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  47. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    89% User Score Based on 1,997 reviews

    Terraformers is a 3X game with roguelite elements in which you terraform Mars. Explore the planet’s wonders, exploit its resources and expand by settling new cities. Start the terraforming... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Terraformers.

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  48. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    96% User Score Based on 51,372 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Oxygen Not Included.

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  49. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, grinding
    79% User Score Based on 567 reviews

    Imagine Earth is a real-time simulation game. Whole planets become your playground and keep the excitement going with strategy and puzzle element. Build up huge civilizations and deal with the self-inflicted climate change. It all depends on your individual development plans and growth management abilities. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Imagine Earth.

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  50. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 2,632 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 10 reviews

    You didn't ask to lead this expedition but here you are: stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilization and everyone looking for you to lead. Manage your meager resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls and head in the only direction you can - into The Pale Beyond. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Pale Beyond.

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