Games Like Niche - a genetics survival game

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: Education 26%, Nature 19.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-source simulation game that allows you to evolve a species from a single cell through to complex multicellular organisms.

Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 70.5%, RPG 15.1%, Funny 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep genetic breeding mechanics and turn-based tactical combat centered around unique animal traits.

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: Sandbox 46.3%, Simulation 20.9%, Education 15.2%, Relaxing 8.9%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: A pure evolutionary simulator that focuses on natural selection and the genetic mutation of creatures in a sandbox environment.

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: Nature 23.2%, Sandbox 19.9%, Resource Management 17.3%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the creation and evolution of aquatic life where creatures develop behaviors and physical traits based on their environment.

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: Nature 22.1%, Sandbox 21.6%, Education 21.3%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a detailed look at evolutionary biology where you can design and evolve your own plants and animals in a simulated ecosystem.

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: Sandbox 31.8%, Nature 25.1%, Relaxing 17%, Simulation 16.5%, Family Friendly 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing nature simulation where you manage ecosystems and evolve new species through genetic mutation and environmental adaptation.

Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.

Why similar: Nature 24.4%, Education 21.5%, Survival 16.5%, Family Friendly 9.6%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic animal survival experience where genetics, mate selection, and pup rearing are central to gameplay.

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Turn-Based 29.8%, Survival 17.8%, RPG 12.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival management with turn-based strategy and RPG elements in a challenging, resource-scarce environment.

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Nature 26.7%, Survival 24.9%, Exploration 13%, Adventure 11%, RPG 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tracks the evolution of early hominids over millions of years through exploration and adaptation.

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 23.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.4%, Puzzle 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Relaxing 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A reverse city-builder that focuses on restoring ecosystems and bringing nature back to a barren wasteland.

As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.

Why similar: Nature 35.4%, Survival 23.9%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 11.7%, Simulation 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a mother lynx and her cubs, emphasizing the harsh realities of nature and animal life.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: Sandbox 35.4%, Resource Management 20.4%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Relaxing 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Includes a complex DNA splicing system that allows you to breed and create thousands of unique animal hybrids.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 23%, Board Game 15.5%, Nature 14.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Puzzle 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing puzzle game centered on building and managing diverse biomes and ecosystems.

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 28.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Board Game 11.3%, Survival 11%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game about managing a nomadic tribe's survival and migration across a changing world.

Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Why similar: Strategy 41.5%, Simulation 32%, Sandbox 11.4%, Singleplayer 7.9%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic evolution of a pathogen to survive and adapt against global efforts to eradicate it.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.9%, Resource Management 19.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep management of prehistoric creatures, including genetic modification and habitat design.

Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Resource Management 16.6%, Funny 13.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Family Friendly 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential evolution game that takes you from a microscopic organism to a space-faring civilization through creature customization.

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: Puzzle 24.2%, Nature 14.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Relaxing 12.8%, Procedural Generation 12%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you manage the expansion of nature and plants across a procedurally generated landscape.

A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?

Why similar: Education 27.4%, Nature 20.7%, Sandbox 17.9%, Resource Management 8.5%, Relaxing 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manipulate the environment and genetic traits to guide the evolution of creatures in a controlled setting.

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: Sandbox 25.6%, Strategy 18.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game where you control giants to shape the planet and nurture the development of nature and human civilizations.

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 19.6%, Turn-Based 19.3%, Board Game 14.2%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building and resource management game that focuses on the survival and adaptation of life on Mars.

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: Nature 19.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Relaxing 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite simulation that tasks you with evolving your creature to survive in a hostile, ever-changing environment.

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: Nature 21.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Roguelike 11%

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: Education 53.2%, Simulation 29.5%, Strategy 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: A science-based simulation that lets you build and manage your own ecosystems to study the balance of nature.

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: Education 22.6%, Nature 17.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Relaxing 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game simulation where you guide wild animals through their daily lives and help them survive environmental changes.

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Nature 24.7%, Survival 15.8%, RPG 14%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on gardening and restoring a desert landscape into a thriving, lush ecosystem.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Turn-Based 31.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Roguelike 8.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that emphasizes exploration and character management in a vibrant, stylized world.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Resource Management 26%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 20.8%, Sandbox 20.1%, Funny 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on management, it shares the intricate simulation and planning elements found in complex strategy games.

You have just arrived in a magical forest world with a hexagon board at its center, a mysterious creature nearby, and secrets lurking in the shadows. Why are you here, and what will you do next? A deceptively simple puzzle game, wrapped in a magical adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 22.2%, Nature 20.4%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Relaxing 11.6%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-strategy game that revolves around growing and managing a garden ecosystem to survive a mysterious threat.

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.2%, Simulation 18.6%, Resource Management 16.1%, Strategy 16%, Survival 6.3%

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: Turn-Based Strategy 25.3%, Board Game 21.9%, Nature 19.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Relaxing 7.9%

EVERDAWN is a relaxing tile-based puzzle game where every placement shapes a living, evolving world. Stack scoring systems, combine biomes, unlock new and powerful Wonder tiles, and collect adorable Michis, little creatures that provide extra tiles.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.4%, Board Game 17.1%, Puzzle 14.3%, Sandbox 9%, Relaxing 7.7%

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: Nature 19.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Education 14.6%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Resource Management 10.7%

From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.3%, Nature 17.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7.7%

Axes and Acres is a deep and engaging single-player strategy game designed to create exciting decisions every turn. The rules are easy to learn, but every turn can be played out in many different ways in order to farm, build and survive.

Why similar: Turn-Based 35.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.8%, Board Game 13.8%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on resource management and survival in a harsh, procedural wilderness.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Board Game 15.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 9.8%

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Puzzle 28.5%, Simulation 27%, Resource Management 26.6%, Funny 12.7%, Strategy 3.8%

Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?

Why similar: Survival 36.9%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 20.2%, Relaxing 18.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Predators lurk, food is scarce, you must adapt - or go extinct. Evolve your species to survive and dominate as you explore the campaign or go head-to-head with the skill-based matchmaker.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 32.2%, Board Game 25.4%, Education 21.5%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 5.9%

Type anything, generate a creature. Outwit, outlast and out-weird your enemies in a sandbox roguelike with deep simulation systems, wildly unpredictable auto-battler combat and endless procedurally generated chaos!

Why similar: Nature 20.5%, Sandbox 19.7%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Roguelike 11.9%, Funny 9.6%

You are a blacksmith in the world of the sword, magic and war, in which any blacksmith who knows how to make even the simplest swords is in demand. You start off as a poor unskilled blacksmith, but in time you will gain experience and improve to achieve wealth, fame and power, and change this world!

Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, Resource Management 30.2%, Puzzle 16.9%, RPG 11.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based 18.8%, Board Game 14%, Survival 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

The Sapling is a short 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!

Why similar: Nature 24%, Sandbox 21.8%, Education 20.4%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Relaxing 6.9%

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: Sandbox 47.1%, Procedural Generation 20.4%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 6.3%

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: Turn-Based 22.5%, Nature 15.6%, Puzzle 14.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 13%

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: Education 28.2%, Nature 28.1%, Sandbox 22.5%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Simulation 9.1%

Adapt your Species to survive and thrive in the Oceans depths in this turn-based strategy game based on the hit board game Oceans.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 34.1%, Board Game 26.2%, Nature 16%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 8.1%

The 3D online multiplayer game of social deduction and mischief, inspired by medieval politics and the Werewolf/Mafia (1986) genre. Gather 'round the tabletop, uniting allies of the realm with strategy to distinguish friend from foe.

Why similar: Board Game 38.8%, Survival 21.2%, Funny 14.7%, RPG 13.9%, Strategy 11.4%

LIVE THE LIFE OF A WILD WOLF! As a two-year-old gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park, hunt elk and moose, find a mate, and then establish a territory and raise your pups.

Why similar: Education 25.9%, Nature 20.6%, Survival 14.7%, Family Friendly 10.9%, RPG 9.1%

The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

Why similar: Sandbox 56.6%, Strategy 22.3%, Simulation 21.1%

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Resource Management 36.8%, Sandbox 20.9%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 18%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Turn-based fantasy gladiatorial game with monster breeding. Crossbreed various species to create monster hybrids for gladiatorial combat. Manipulate creatures’ traits with surgery, magic, and alchemy. Manage your enterprise, craft items and upgrade your base. Fight in the arena for gold and glory!

Why similar: Turn-Based 50.5%, Sandbox 27%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Singleplayer 3.8%

As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Why similar: Education 38.8%, Puzzle 16.1%, Relaxing 14.5%, Family Friendly 14%, Simulation 11.2%

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

Why similar: Education 26.2%, Sandbox 25%, Resource Management 19.9%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.6%

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 36.1%, Family Friendly 18.1%, Funny 16%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Simulation 12.4%

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Resource Management 32.9%, Sandbox 31.6%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 14.4%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Breed budgies and discover hidden colour mutations in this realistic genetics simulator.

Why similar: Nature 58.2%, Simulation 33.8%, Singleplayer 8%

Ready to play some ball? Grab a team, suit up, and climb inside your human! Prep its thrusters, lower the all-terrain wheels, and spin up that flailing magnet-arm. It's time to play Regular Human Basketball!

Why similar: Funny 100%

Experience the wild as a badger sheltering your cubs from harm. On your journey, you will be stalked by birds of prey, encounter perils of the night, cross fierce rivers, escape forest fires and face the looming threat of starvation. Food is to be found, but is there enough for everyone?

Why similar: Nature 30.7%, Survival 19.6%, Family Friendly 14.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Exploration 10.4%

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: Nature 24.9%, Education 23%, Resource Management 15.9%, Procedural Generation 15%, Strategy 7.4%