Games Like Natural Instincts: European Forest

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 29.7% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Nature 13.9%, Relaxing 12.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing sandbox experience centered on managing and evolving diverse species within a balanced ecosystem.

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 24.6% ★, Science 17.6%, Artificial Intelligence 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Nature 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to design your own flora and fauna to see how they evolve and interact within a simulated environment.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: Nature 30.9%, Procedural Generation 17.4%, Relaxing 15.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Family Friendly 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core theme of environmental restoration and transforming barren landscapes into thriving ecosystems.

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 26.6% ★, Science 16.5%, Artificial Intelligence 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Nature 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep artificial life simulation where creatures evolve based on physical traits and environmental pressures.

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 41.3%, Education 28.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Casual 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A science-based simulation that challenges you to build and maintain a stable, functioning ecosystem.

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 23.2% ★, Science 16%, Education 10.9%, Nature 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique artificial life simulation where you manage the evolution of pixel-art creatures in a sandbox world.

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 34.6% ★, Science 24.3%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Education 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A highly technical sandbox that lets you observe the process of natural selection and evolutionary biology in real-time.

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 22.9%, Education 17.4%, Artificial Intelligence 17.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Nature 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the evolution of digital organisms with complex AI and genetic traits in a sandbox setting.

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: God Game 22.3% ★, Science 21.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Education 10%, Nature 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines evolution simulation with a sandbox environment where you can customize the genetics of your own creatures.

Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.

Why similar: Science 25.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Management 12.6%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for detailed management and habitat construction for extinct animals in a sandbox environment.

Enter the wilderness and keep your calf and your herd safe from harm. Make your way through the open landscapes as a majestic elephant. Be alert and gather your herd during times of danger. Your herd is your family, shelter is your only hope, and survival your only goal.

Why similar: Nature 36.5%, Exploration 13.9%, Casual 10.4%, Family Friendly 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and migration of a herd of elephants, emphasizing the emotional connection to nature.

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Sandbox 20.1%, Nature 19.2%, Simulation 8%, Family Friendly 7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most detailed animal management and habitat building mechanics available for nature enthusiasts.

Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated. Seed a world, walk away, and come back to species neither of us designed. Watch populations boom, bust and go extinct. Best left on a second monitor.

Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, Science 16.4%, Education 10.8%, Artificial Intelligence 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to guide the evolution of species by manipulating their environment and traits.

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Why similar: God Game 28.6% ★, Nature 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A nature-focused puzzle game where you build and manage diverse biomes to create a thriving ecosystem.

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 23.5%, Education 15.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Artificial Intelligence 11.6%, Nature 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-source evolution simulation that takes you from a single cell to a complex organism.

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 23.1% ★, Science 15.7%, Education 11%, Sandbox 8.8%, Nature 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game simulation that tasks you with managing the development of life on a planetary scale.

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 46.1% ★, Sandbox 19.3%, Artificial Intelligence 12.2%, Management 6.1%, Procedural Generation 6%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game sandbox that gives you total control over the development and destruction of life on a planetary scale.

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 33.5% ★, Nature 11.8%, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features indirect god-game mechanics where you influence the world through commandments rather than direct control.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Science 30.4%, Sandbox 19%, Nature 18.6%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A nature-themed colony management game where you must adapt to environmental changes and manage water resources.

Take care of forgotten nature's treasure. Build, craft, feed, clean and manage your forest in Forest Ranger Simulator. Ensure its long-lasting beauty and become a flawless Forest Ranger!

Why similar: Education 23.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Nature 15.4%, Open World 10%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the environmental protection aspect of the seed game by tasking you with cleaning and restoring a forest.

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 22.5% ★, Science 17.8%, Education 12.8%, Nature 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive nature simulation that lets you play as various insects and animals in a realistic forest.

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 36.9%, Sandbox 21.2%, Simulation 17.4%, Management 12.5%, Relaxing 12%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist simulation of an ecosystem where you observe the growth and interactions of various life forms.

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 29.2% ★, Nature 15.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual nature-themed simulation that focuses on the growth and management of forest life.

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 20.5%, Sandbox 17.1%, Education 16.4%, Management 14.4%, Relaxing 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing and educational look at managing an ant colony within a naturalistic setting.

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 22.1% ★, Science 17.5%, Artificial Intelligence 12.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Education 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A simple yet effective life simulation that focuses on the basic needs and behaviors of organisms.

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 15.5%, Sandbox 14%, Nature 10.6%, Relaxing 6.3%

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 42.2% ★, Nature 16.1%, Sandbox 15.6%, Relaxing 7.1%, Strategy 5.7%

Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.7%, Exploration 11.5%, Cute 9.7%, Nature 9.3%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and simulation elements with a focus on protecting and managing magical creatures.

Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.

Why similar: Education 36%, Nature 14.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Top-Down 12.8%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused simulation that challenges you to solve global environmental issues.

Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.

Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation that emphasizes the care and well-being of animals in a park setting.

In Zoo Simulator, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!

Why similar: Education 21.8%, Open World 12%, Management 11.3%, Nature 10.9%, Family Friendly 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a straightforward animal management experience with a focus on realistic care and habitat design.

Become a real-life animal trainer! Manage and develop your animal training center, create a safe and happy place for them! Train different types of animals, and give them a lot of attention and they will surely become calmer and more cooperative with their owners.

Why similar: Education 21.1%, Nature 17.1%, Family Friendly 14.3%, Relaxing 12%, Cute 10.8%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version. In Zoo Simulator: Prologue, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!

Why similar: Nature 20.6%, Management 15.1%, Open World 12.5%, Relaxing 9.7%, Education 8.5%

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: Nature 30.4%, Relaxing 12.7%, Management 9.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Strategy 7.4%

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 22.9%, Nature 17.4%, Sandbox 16.7%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Relaxing 7.7%

🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree! 🌲 Create and enjoy a peaceful, interactive woodland throughout the changing seasons.

Why similar: Education 26.9%, Nature 21.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Relaxing 7.6%, Simulation 7%

Become a Zoo Keeper, manage and build the zoo of your childhood dreams! Take care of the animals and create ideal conditions for them. Grow your zoo, add extraordinary species and prepare amazing attractions for visitors.

Why similar: Education 19.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Management 14.1%, Nature 13.9%, Family Friendly 8.6%

Begin your ranger journey in Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator. Maintain trails, assist visitors, track wildlife, rescue injured or trapped animals, and explore diverse biomes filled with varied species.

Why similar: Nature 26.7%, Open World 20%, Family Friendly 14.6%, Exploration 14.2%, Relaxing 10.1%

Become iconic animals and fight for survival in the The WILDS. Finding food, water, and shelter will be the easy part, protecting your family from hungry predators and a harsh environment will separate the weak from the strong. Welcome to a uniquely immersive animal experience...

Why similar: Science 33.1%, Nature 23.1%, Open World 16%, Relaxing 11.5%, Exploration 10.3%

Be a stone Golem and try to save Nature with the help of an adorable Fox! Reconnect ancient sources of energy in environmental puzzles. Discover secrets from a lost civilization and save animals on an emotional quest in a cozy, colorful world.

Why similar: Education 29.1%, Relaxing 13.7%, Cute 12.7%, Exploration 12.5%, Family Friendly 12.1%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Manage and develop your animal training center, create a safe and happy place for them! Train different types of animals, and give them a lot of attention and they will surely become calmer with their owners.

Why similar: Education 26.7%, Management 16.9%, Family Friendly 12.3%, Cute 11.6%, Simulation 8.2%

Sneak up on your enemies, help Farmer, Goat and Piggy, and start a family!

Why similar: Nature 26.8%, Sandbox 20.1%, Open World 16.9%, Simulation 9.4%, 3D 9%

Care for over 40 different animals from all four corners of the Earth whilst running a professional programme of rescue, rehabilitation, research and conservation.

Why similar: God Game 23.2% ★, Management 22.8%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Nature 10%

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 29% ★, Science 15.9%, Artificial Intelligence 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 6.1%

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: God Game 23.5% ★, Science 20%, Artificial Intelligence 15.4%, Sandbox 11%, Nature 10.1%

APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

Why similar: Education 17.5%, Sandbox 13%, Nature 12.7%, Management 10.6%, Open World 8.5%

Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!

Why similar: God Game 21.8% ★, Management 17.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 8.7%

In Animal Shelter Prologue, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

Why similar: Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 16%, Cute 13.8%, Family Friendly 13.1%, Casual 13.1%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Science 25.2%, Nature 17.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Top-Down 11.3%, Management 11.1%

Shape a planet. Watch history unfold.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Nature 12.6%, Top-Down 11.4%

In Animal Shelter, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

Why similar: Education 33.6%, Management 13.3%, Family Friendly 12.1%, Cute 10.3%, Relaxing 8.9%

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 25.7% ★, Science 18.8%, Education 13.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 7%

Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.

Why similar: Family Friendly 19.3%, Sandbox 16%, Relaxing 15.9%, 3D 14%, Simulation 10.8%

An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

Why similar: God Game 44.6% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Nature 9.7%, Exploration 9.3%, Simulation 7.1%

Play as Boris, a curious baby boar who must learn how to use his nose to reunite with his family after a forest fire. Explore beautiful landscapes, track scents, and uncover secrets as you slowly reconnect with nature in this cozy animal adventure.

Why similar: Nature 16.4%, Relaxing 14.8%, Exploration 13.4%, Cute 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.9%, Management 19.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Exploration 9.5%, Cute 9.3%

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 45.4% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Nature 12.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.4%

Grow, feed and care for your shrimp pals. Watch your shrimp multiply and sell your colony when they become too numerous.

Why similar: Education 28.2%, Nature 24.9%, Cute 10.9%, Management 8%, Relaxing 7.3%

Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.4%, Nature 21.8%, Open World 11.7%, Relaxing 10.7%, Family Friendly 9.8%

As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.

Why similar: Nature 34.2%, Cute 16.8%, Exploration 15.6%, Open World 13.3%, Atmospheric 11.2%