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 25.9%, Nature 19.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep scientific simulation that allows you to guide a species from a single cell through complex evolutionary stages.

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%, Funny 16%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Simulation 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based simulation that features a complex genetics system for breeding and raising bizarre, evolving creatures.

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 21%, Education 15.1%, Relaxing 8.9%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: An advanced simulation that uses real-world evolutionary principles to let you observe the development of digital life forms.

To survive, you must guide your species through a constantly changing world. Compete with strange creatures for food and territory, and find your niche through careful evolutionary choices. The real question is not if you can survive, but for how long.

Why similar: Nature 25.8%, Sandbox 21.9%, Survival 19.3%, Exploration 9.4%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creature evolution and survival in a changing environment, mirroring the core genetic gameplay of Niche.

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 23.9%, Sandbox 21.9%, Education 20.4%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Relaxing 7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to design your own ecosystem and watch how your custom flora and fauna evolve over time.

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 32%, Nature 24.7%, Relaxing 17.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing nature simulation where you manage ecosystems and evolve new species to maintain environmental balance.

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%, Sandbox 19.9%, Resource Management 17.6%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Relaxing 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game where you can create and evolve life forms within a complex, self-sustaining underwater 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 21.2%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed life-simulation sandbox where you can cultivate and evolve your own unique species from scratch.

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 26.5%, Survival 25%, Exploration 13.1%, Adventure 10.9%, RPG 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes the long-term evolutionary progression of a lineage of primates.

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

Why similar: Nature 24.5%, Education 21.4%, Survival 16.4%, Family Friendly 9.6%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a realistic animal survival experience that includes family management and the passing down of traits to offspring.

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 23.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, 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 desolate landscape.

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 29.6%, Survival 17.7%, RPG 12.6%, Resource Management 12%, Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival management with turn-based strategy, requiring you to manage a group of characters with unique 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: Turn-Based Strategy 23.1%, Board Game 15.4%, Nature 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Puzzle 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A nature-themed puzzle game that focuses on building and maintaining balanced, thriving biomes.

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 35.3%, Survival 23.8%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 11.7%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a mother animal and her cubs, emphasizing the emotional and strategic aspects of nature survival.

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 32.4%, Board Game 25.4%, Education 21.5%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A digital adaptation of the popular board game that centers on adapting species with specific traits to survive in a competitive ecosystem.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Turn-Based 27.3%, Survival 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Roguelike 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game that shares Niche's focus on careful decision-making and managing limited resources in a hostile environment.

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 19.1%, Board Game 14.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game about managing the survival and evolution of a colony on a hostile planet.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Survival 45.9%, Exploration 22.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that features a complex, simulated ecosystem where you must learn to survive as a creature in a harsh world.

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 28.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Board Game 11.3%, Survival 11%

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

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 27.2%, Nature 20.6%, Sandbox 18%, Resource Management 8.6%, Relaxing 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to act as a god-like figure, guiding the evolution of creatures through environmental manipulation.

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%, Strategy 13.2%, Relaxing 12.9%, Simulation 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you manage the expansion of nature and animals across a hex-based map.

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 38.8%, Resource Management 20.1%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep animal management and genetic manipulation mechanics within a park-building framework.

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 19.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Relaxing 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite simulation that tasks you with evolving a creature to survive in an increasingly hostile environment.

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 22%, Board Game 15.6%, Puzzle 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful, nature-themed strategy puzzle game that focuses on building landscapes and managing resources.

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 24.6%, Survival 15.8%, RPG 14%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A nature-focused survival game where you cultivate a garden and manage the surrounding ecosystem to thrive.

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 31.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.7%, Adventure 8.4%, Roguelike 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based adventure game that emphasizes character traits and strategic decision-making during exploration.

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 15.6%, Survival 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Roguelike 11%

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 22.1%, Nature 20.4%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Relaxing 11.6%, Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-strategy game that revolves around cultivating a garden and understanding the patterns of nature.

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 14.5%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Resource Management 10.9%

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Education 22.7%, Nature 22.2%, Sandbox 19.3%, Resource Management 14.8%, Survival 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A collaborative survival game where players must manage an entire ecosystem to prevent global catastrophe.

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 34.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Strategy 16%, Survival 6.3%

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 70.6%, RPG 15.2%, Funny 14.2%

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%, Puzzle 14.2%, Sandbox 9%, Relaxing 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 35.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.9%, 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 wilderness setting.

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 35.6%, Resource Management 20.4%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Relaxing 8.5%

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 41.6%, Simulation 32.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Singleplayer 7.9%, Survival 7.1%

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 24.4%, Nature 17.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 10.4%, Roguelike 7.7%

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 22.5%, Nature 17.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Relaxing 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A nature simulation that lets you observe and influence the lives of wild animals in their natural habitat.

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 27%, Board Game 21.3%, Nature 19%, Resource Management 11.5%, Relaxing 7.7%

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

Why similar: Resource Management 26.2%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 20.7%, Sandbox 20%, Funny 4.6%

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 37.1%, Sandbox 20.8%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 18%, Singleplayer 4.3%

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%, Simulation 29.7%, Strategy 17.3%

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: Nature 27.9%, Sandbox 22.8%, Resource Management 17%, Survival 16.7%, Strategy 8.1%

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 36.8%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 20.2%, Relaxing 18.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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 12%, Funny 9.6%

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 11.5%

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: Nature 26.7%, Sandbox 22.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Family Friendly 9.5%

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 28.2%, Simulation 27%, Resource Management 26.9%, Funny 12.6%, Strategy 3.8%

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 19.4%, Turn-Based 18.7%, Board Game 14%, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Survival 7.8%

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 30.8%, Survival 19.6%, Family Friendly 14.8%, Adventure 10.7%, Exploration 10.5%

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 56.5%, Strategy 22.3%, Simulation 21.2%

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

Why similar: Education 25.9%, Sandbox 24.9%, Resource Management 20.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 8.7%

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 25.8%, Nature 20.6%, Survival 14.8%, Family Friendly 10.9%, RPG 9.1%

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 37.6%, Resource Management 30.7%, Puzzle 16.8%, RPG 11.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%

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%, Procedural Generation 20.4%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 6.4%

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 50.1%, Sandbox 27.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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: Nature 28.1%, Education 28.1%, Sandbox 22.5%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Simulation 9.2%

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 34.2%, Board Game 26.1%, Nature 15.9%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 8.1%

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 38.7%, Puzzle 16.1%, Relaxing 14.6%, Family Friendly 14%, Simulation 11.3%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.1%, Resource Management 27.7%, Simulation 22.5%, Relaxing 10%, Strategy 7.7%