- #1 The Sapling
97% matchVery Positive89% of 2,006 reviews2019
Dev: Wessel Stoop
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Sapling is a simulation game where you design your own plants, animals, algae and fungi, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Why similar: God Game 21.1% ★, Science 17.8%, Life Sim 12.8%, Artificial Intelligence 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #2 Planetary Life
96% matchVery Positive94% of 948 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Why similar: God Game 22% ★, Science 17.5%, Education 9.9%, Life Sim 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #3 Ecosystem
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 638 reviews2024
Dev: Tom JohnsonPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
Why similar: God Game 21.8% ★, Science 15.9%, Life Sim 11.2%, Artificial Intelligence 9.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #4 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,004 reviews2018
Dev: Quasar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.
Why similar: God Game 29.2% ★, Science 24.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Experimental 11.6% ★, Simulation 8.8%
- #5 Gridworld
94% matchVery Positive86% of 243 reviews2015
Dev: DopplerFrog
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.
Why similar: God Game 20.9% ★, Science 19.4%, Artificial Intelligence 12.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Life Sim 8.7%
- #6 Equilinox
94% matchVery Positive92% of 3,026 reviews2018
Dev: ThinMatrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.
Why similar: God Game 29.4% ★, Sandbox 22.1%, Nature 14.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Relaxing 10.7%
- #7 Thrive
93% matchVery Positive92% of 1,761 reviews2021
Dev: Revolutionary Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
Why similar: Science 27.5%, Education 14.6%, Sandbox 13%, Artificial Intelligence 11.9%, Nature 11%
- #8 ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
92% matchVery Positive85% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: Attructure Inc.
Windows
A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways. There are no complex ecosystems—just pure movement learning through a physics engine. Watch as these creatures scurry, stumble, and evolve in their own unique, unpredictable ways.
Why similar: God Game 28.2% ★, Science 18.1%, Artificial Intelligence 12.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Life Sim 9.2%
- #9 Creatura
91% matchMixed67% of 232 reviews2021
Dev: Koksny.com
Windows · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Seed, Breed, Create. From single cell organisms to complex ecosystems. Evolve every part of your own unique aquarium / terrarium by applying scientifically accurate principles of natural and artificial selection, in Creatura - ultimate Virtual Evolution Vivarium Simulator.
Why similar: Science 21.9%, God Game 19.5% ★, Life Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Nature 8.6%
- #10 Terra Firma 2
90% matchVery Positive93% of 213 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
Why similar: God Game 33.1% ★, Science 18.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Nature 11.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #11 The Bibites: Digital Life
89% matchVery Positive96% of 248 reviews2025
Dev: Omnia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore real digital life in The Bibites! Play god by guiding your bibites on their evolutionary journey or engineer your own. Analyze their Neural Network brains and genetic information as they adapt to their environments. Save your favorites and test their strength in Challenge Mode!
Why similar: Science 25.6%, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Education 15.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Nature 11.3%
- #12 Tyto Ecology
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 440 reviews2016
Dev: Immersed Games
Windows · Mac
Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems. Observe interactions like hunting, blooming, and even decomposing! Will your biodome last for decades, or will it experience a total ecosystem collapse? You’re in control!
Why similar: Science 35.1%, Education 19.6%, Animals 18.5% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 5.7%
- #13 Earth Simulator
88% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Gamesforfarm
Windows
Shape a planet. Watch history unfold.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.3%, Sandbox 22.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Nature 11%, Strategy 10.1%
- #14 Plentiful
86% matchVery Positive92% of 102 reviews2026
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.
Why similar: God Game 43.5% ★, Nature 17.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 6.9%, Relaxing 6.5%
- #15 Natural Instincts: European Forest
89% matchMixed45% of 299 reviews2021
Dev: DreamStorm StudiosPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!
Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, Science 16.4%, Education 10.8%, Artificial Intelligence 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #16 PolyPine
86% matchVery Positive96% of 406 reviews2025
Dev: Cloudberry PinePub: IndieArk
Windows
A forest simulator where you grow trees and create habitats for animals, plants and insects. Click on animals to make them poop, hunt, dig, cut and twerk! Start with a few basic seeds and attempt to grow a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: God Game 30.7% ★, Nature 18%, Sandbox 16.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Simulation 7.7%
- #17 Terra Firma
85% matchVery Positive94% of 605 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation. Plate tectonics, wind and water erosion and plant life all develop and interact to produce a world that is viewable from a single tree to kilometres across.
Why similar: God Game 37.7% ★, Life Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 14%, Nature 10.8%, Simulation 10.7%
- #18 Vilmonic
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: Bludgeonsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
Why similar: God Game 24.7% ★, Science 20%, Education 11%, Nature 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #19 Sandboxels
84% matchVery Positive95% of 1,172 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 27.8% ★, Science 24.9%, Education 14.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Nature 11.1%
- #20 Deisim
81% matchVery Positive93% of 916 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 33.2% ★, Life Sim 15.9%, Artificial Intelligence 15.9%, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 6%
- #21 Niche - a genetics survival game
82% matchVery Positive86% of 5,238 reviews2017
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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.
Why similar: Education 20.8%, Nature 17.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #22 Among Ripples
83% matchMixed68% of 1,448 reviews2015
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Control a pond's ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is a meditative ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the pond and see how they interact.
Why similar: Experimental 17.4% ★, Nature 15.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Life Sim 9.7%
- #23 Sand:box
80% matchVery Positive94% of 1,758 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 33% ★, Science 20.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Education 14.5%, Simulation 6.5%
- #24 Evolution
84% matchMixed49% of 110 reviews2016
Dev: Alex WilliamsPub: Grubby Monster Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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).
Why similar: Simulation 83.9%, Indie 16.1%
- #25 Mountain
81% matchVery Positive88% of 16,296 reviews2014
Dev: David OReilly
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 104.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Existential Nature Simulation
Why similar: God Game 32.1% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Relaxing 16.2%, Experimental 10.8% ★, Casual 7.3%
- #26 Crest - an indirect god sim
82% matchMixed65% of 376 reviews2018
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
Why similar: God Game 34% ★, Nature 12.8%, Artificial Intelligence 12%, Sandbox 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #27 Creatures Docking Station
79% matchVery Positive95% of 216 reviews2021
Dev: Creature LabsPub: Gameware Europe
Windows
Raise and train a troupe of cuddly virtual life creatures that live on a Space Station. Because they have neural network brains, Norns can be taught right from wrong, but because they also have their own, individual personalities, they may not always do what you want.
Why similar: Science 19.9%, God Game 19.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.5%, Life Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #28 Inspiral: Echoes of Gravity
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: PcZ Games
Windows · Mac
Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.
Why similar: God Game 36.1% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Relaxing 8.3%
- #29 Ant Keeping Simulator
77% matchVery Positive89% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Kunstaat
Windows
Grow, feed and care for your colony of mighty ants in a realistic semi-idle simulation of ant keeping. Created in collaboration with ant keeping enthusiasts, Ant Keeping Simulator will be an accurate experience to ant keepers.
Why similar: Nature 22.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Education 15.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Life Sim 10.7%
- #30 Beetle Uprising
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: Iocane Games, LLCPub: Disco Slug
Windows
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Why similar: God Game 24% ★, Science 21.6%, Life Sim 11.6%, Nature 10.7%, Education 9.9%
- #31 Universe Sandbox
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 32,344 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Why similar: God Game 27.2% ★, Science 23.4%, Education 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Relaxing 5.4%
- #32 WorldBox - God Simulator
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 56,966 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Why similar: God Game 41.2% ★, Sandbox 18.1%, Life Sim 12.5%, Artificial Intelligence 11.3%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
- #33 Galimulator
77% matchVery Positive91% of 503 reviews2018
Dev: Snoddasmannen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.
Why similar: God Game 43.8% ★, Simulation 27%, Sandbox 23.8%, Strategy 5.4%
- #34 BioEden
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: Broken Arms GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Step into a cozy management journey as a Keeper and bring life back to a world quietly waiting to be healed. Craft the perfect biome for dozens of wonderful animal species and use your ingenuity to restore your planet, one ecosystem at a time.
Why similar: Animals 41.4% ★, Nature 24.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Relaxing 8.3%, Casual 4.5%
- #35 Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
75% matchVery Positive89% of 28,213 reviews2021
Dev: Computer Lunch
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 89.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Why similar: Science 47.9%, God Game 16% ★, Education 12.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Sandbox 5.2%
- #36 Multicellular
78% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
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?
Why similar: Science 31%, Nature 17.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Relaxing 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%
- #37 Earthtongue
76% matchVery Positive90% of 211 reviews2015
Dev: June StringsPub: junestrings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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.
Why similar: Nature 38.1%, Simulation 25.7%, Sandbox 21.5%, Relaxing 10.3%, Indie 3.1%
- #38 Reus 2
72% matchVery Positive94% of 2,321 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 41.7% ★, Life Sim 12.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Nature 11.8%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #39 Shrimp Keeping Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Kunstaat
Windows
Grow, feed and care for your shrimp pals. Watch your shrimp multiply and sell your colony when they become too numerous.
Why similar: Nature 27.7%, Education 27.7%, Life Sim 15%, Simulation 11.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #40 Reus
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,999 reviews2013
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
Why similar: God Game 63.1% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 2.9%
- #41 Lifecraft
73% matchVery Positive81% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: God Game 27.7% ★, Science 26.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Life Sim 13.7%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #42 Cloud Gardens
71% matchVery Positive95% of 2,311 reviews2021
Dev: Noio
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Why similar: Experimental 23.7% ★, Nature 21.6%, Sandbox 19.3%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #43 Rat Overflow
70% matchVery Positive86% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: Little Beast Lab
Windows
Rat Overflow is an adorable rat breeding simulator about genetics, glory, and having way too many rats. Develop your show winner bloodlines and breed thousands of unique rat coats!
Why similar: Science 25.1%, Life Sim 21.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Education 9.6%
- #44 Growth
70% matchVery Positive90% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: VoodooDuckPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of animals. Growth blends the beauty of cozy exploration with challenging navigation around obstacles.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 20.7%, Simulation 20.2%, Nature 17.6%, Relaxing 17.5%, Strategy 14.6%
- #45 Solar 2
71% matchVery Positive91% of 2,235 reviews2011
Dev: Murudai
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
Why similar: God Game 28.2% ★, Sandbox 23.8%, Abstract 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9%, Relaxing 8.5%
- #46 Flower Design
73% matchMixed65% of 144 reviews2017
Dev: PanGuoJun
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A flower arrangement sandbox game. The shapes and colors are freely adjustable and there is a garden where you can build a house and put flowers in.
Why similar: Experimental 20.3% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Life Sim 15.7%, Nature 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13.6%
- #47 Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
69% matchVery Positive87% of 291 reviews2025
Dev: Venugopalan Sreedharan
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration. Unique gameplay for each species! Currently featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and other iconic creatures. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles coming soon!
Why similar: God Game 20.1% ★, Science 18.7%, Life Sim 13.5%, Education 10.9%, Nature 10.8%
- #48 Plankton
72% matchMixed69% of 127 reviews2016
Dev: PanGuoJun
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Minimalist style game : plankton simulation, an electronic pet generated by math codes. Under your care it will slowly grow up and evolve.
Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, Nature 24.2%, Procedural Generation 22.1%, Casual 17.7%, Indie 5.2%
- #49 Birthdays the Beginning
71% matchMixed64% of 989 reviews2017
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
Why similar: God Game 61.6% ★, Sandbox 24.4%, Simulation 13.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #50 Pandora's Toybox
67% matchVery Positive85% of 430 reviews2026
Dev: BetaLabPub: 2P Games
Windows
Become a God, build a civilization. In this dynamic Roguelite God Simulator, guide human civilization on a procedurally generated pixel world. Watch your people grow, defend them against heretics, and build an immortal legacy.
Why similar: God Game 40.7% ★, Artificial Intelligence 17.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Simulation 7.2%
- #51 Budgie Genetics Simulator
69% matchVery Positive96% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Niki Cilliers
Windows
Breed budgies and discover hidden colour mutations in this realistic genetics simulator.
Why similar: Nature 43.6%, Simulation 35.7%, Casual 18.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #52 Fantasy Map Simulator
66% matchVery Positive89% of 4,362 reviews2024
Dev: The Stranger
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.
Why similar: God Game 48% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, Simulation 4.6%, Procedural Generation 4.6%
- #53 Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 7,431 reviews2026
Dev: Odd Dreams DigitalPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!
Why similar: Animals 40.3% ★, Nature 16.7%, Procedural Generation 15%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #54 Nature Game System
67% matchVery Positive85% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: North Star Digital GamesPub: North Star Games
Windows · Mac
Now includes Jurassic, Flight, and Arctic Tundra! Adapt your species to survive where food is scarce and predators lurk at every turn. Easy to learn, but offering lots of strategic depth, Nature is a modular game system from the designer of the award-winning Evolution series.
Why similar: Science 38.2%, Nature 22.8%, Relaxing 10.3%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 7.4%
- #55 EarthRoyale 3
68% matchMixed67% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Lizzycat / Lizabeth Gidlund
Windows · Mac · Linux
A simulation map observation game where you watch the world simulate into the future in the most chaotic way possible
Why similar: God Game 58.9% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Casual 8%, Procedural Generation 7.4%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #56 Horsey Game
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,046 reviews2026
Dev: Captain Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Collect Horses. Breed Horses. Race Horses. Genetically Modify Horses. Create a Horse paradise or just get rich!
Why similar: Life Sim 27.1%, Science 22.8%, Sandbox 21.7%, Nature 12.4%, Simulation 11.5%
- #57 Wobbledogs
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 15,387 reviews2022
Dev: Animal UprisingPub: Secret Mode
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A 3D pet simulation where you raise your own personal hive of mutating dogs, physically simulated all the way down to their guts! Wobbledogs is a casual and chill sandbox for players of all ages who want to care for their very own virtual pets in a surprising, unique, and stress-free environment.
Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Life Sim 19.5%, Experimental 17.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #58 Awe
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 258 reviews2015
Dev: Badland Development StudioPub: BadLand Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.
Why similar: God Game 57.8% ★, Abstract 17.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Casual 6.5%, Relaxing 6%
- #59 Project Chemistry
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 228 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Science 31.4%, God Game 17.8% ★, Education 17.4%, Experimental 11.7% ★, Sandbox 11%
- #60 Jellyfish
70% matchMixed57% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: PanGuoJun
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 30%
A simulation game about the life story of a jellyfish. In this game, I will present the full life cycle of a jellyfish: from an egg to a hydra and finally, after a not very long journey it becomes an adult jellyfish. A work of interactive art to bring the most beautiful of sea creatures to your screen.
Why similar: Animals 25.7% ★, Experimental 17.8% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Nature 13.8%, Procedural Generation 11.5%