Games Like Planetary Life

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: God Game 25.9% ★, Science 20.6% ★, Life Sim 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Nature 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, scientifically-grounded simulation of evolution where you design organisms and watch them adapt to a changing environment.

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 34.1% ★, Science 27.1% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Management 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a rigorous simulation of natural selection where you can observe how genetic mutations affect the survival of your created species.

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 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Science 14.6% ★, Life Sim 8.2%, Nature 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the complex interplay of evolution and environmental pressures, allowing you to watch creatures develop unique traits through natural selection.

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 39.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Life Sim 9%, Procedural Generation 6%

Why You'll Like It: It excels as a sandbox god-game where you can manipulate geography and watch civilizations rise and fall across a living, breathing world.

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 31.8% ★, Sandbox 15%, Nature 13.4%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Education 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This open-source project focuses on the microscopic and early evolutionary stages of life, perfectly capturing the 'cell to civilization' progression.

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 32.3% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Nature 15%, Education 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation focuses on the evolution of digital creatures with unique brains and genetics, mirroring the life-sim aspects of the seed game.

Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.

Why similar: God Game 31% ★, Science 25.5% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Nature 12%, Education 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly interactive physics sandbox that allows for complex chemical and biological reactions, perfect for players who enjoy experimenting with nature.

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 22.3% ★, God Game 21.3% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Life Sim 9.6%, Nature 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It serves as a highly detailed life-sim where you can cultivate flora and fauna, managing the genetic evolution of your own custom ecosystem.

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: Science 26.8% ★, God Game 23.7% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Space 9%, Education 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the macro-scale planetary simulation experience, allowing you to manipulate gravity, climate, and celestial bodies on a cosmic level.

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: God Game 28% ★, Science 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Space 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The classic experience of guiding a species from a single cell through to space-faring civilization remains a cornerstone of the evolution-sim genre.

The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

Why similar: Science 50.5% ★, God Game 18.1% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Education 8.4%, Space 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a satisfying, incremental look at the history of life on Earth, from single-celled organisms to complex civilizations.

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 30.5% ★, Sandbox 21.6%, Nature 14.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Relaxing 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing nature simulation where you manage ecosystems and evolve new species to maintain a balanced, thriving 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 33.6%, Procedural Generation 21.3%, Relaxing 15%, Resource Management 10.7%, Family Friendly 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on restoration, its core loop of manipulating climate and terrain to bring life back to a barren planet mirrors the seed game's environmental themes.

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 61.8% ★, Sandbox 22.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Cute 4%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to manipulate the environment to foster the evolution of life, from ancient bacteria to dinosaurs and beyond.

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 32.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Nature 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This god-game focuses on using powerful giants to shape the planet's terrain and influence the development of the human civilizations living upon it.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: God Game 35.3% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that focuses on the development of a civilization, requiring you to manage resources and planetary conditions to ensure their survival.

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 24.4% ★, Science 15% ★, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Life Sim 6%

Why You'll Like It: It uses machine learning to simulate the movement and evolution of life, offering a unique technical perspective on the life-sim genre.

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: God Game 18.5% ★, Science 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Nature 8.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges you to manage the evolution of a species by adjusting environmental factors, focusing on the management side of life-sims.

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 27.4% ★, Science 20.7% ★, Nature 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Education 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This artificial life simulator lets you breed and evolve pixel-art creatures in a sandbox environment where survival is dictated by your design choices.

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Resource Management 14.2%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the industrial and environmental transformation of a planet, appealing to those who enjoy the terraforming aspects of the seed game.

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 70.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 4.1%, Nature 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: The original title offers a strategic take on god-games where you must carefully balance the growth of nature and human settlements.

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 48.2% ★, Simulation 27.1%, Sandbox 24.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale simulation that lets you watch the rise and fall of empires across a galaxy, focusing on procedural generation and history.

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: Science 30.9% ★, Nature 18.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Education 12.5%, Resource Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: An ecosystem-focused simulation where you must balance the needs of a civilization with the long-term health of the planet's environment.

Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Why similar: God Game 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Life Sim 11.8%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused god-game that allows you to directly interact with your world and influence the growth of your followers.

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 27.5% ★, Science 24.7% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Life Sim 10.2%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy life-sim that tasks you with guiding the evolution of your own species through resource gathering and adaptation.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: God Game 38.8% ★, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Life Sim 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the early stages of human development, requiring you to manage the environment and resources to survive.

A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!

Why similar: God Game 41.3% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Nature 8%, Space 7.3%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that combines creature collection with god-game mechanics, allowing you to influence the development of life on a space-faring scale.

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 35.8% ★, Science 18.3% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Nature 12.1%, Simulation 6.6%

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 42.5% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Life Sim 14.5%, Nature 11.7%, Simulation 10.6%

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Why similar: God Game 30.8% ★, Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Relaxing 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical simulation that allows you to inhabit and manipulate everything from subatomic particles to entire galaxies, capturing the scale of planetary life.

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 21.7%, Nature 20.7%, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 8.9%

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 25.9% ★, Science 16.9% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Nature 9%, Education 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, nature-focused simulation where you manage the survival of various animal species within a forest ecosystem.

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 21.2% ★, Science 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist life-sim that focuses on the cellular and nature-based interactions of a procedural world.

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 53.4% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 4.4%

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 38% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Space 10.7%, Relaxing 9.6%

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 21.6% ★, Science 18.7% ★, Nature 11.3%, Life Sim 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: God Game 30.1% ★, Sandbox 23.9%, Space 17.5%, Relaxing 9.5%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

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 25.4%, Life Sim 19.3%, Procedural Generation 11%, Simulation 9.4%, Family Friendly 9.3%

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 27.5% ★, Nature 16.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Relaxing 9.2%, Resource Management 7.8%

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 34.5% ★, God Game 21.2% ★, Education 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Relaxing 5.8%

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, God Game 18.9% ★, Management 17.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Family Friendly 9.5%

Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Why similar: God Game 38.6% ★, Sandbox 22.7%, Simulation 17%, Space 15.9%, Funny 4.6%

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 36.8%, Simulation 21.6%, Sandbox 19.6%, Management 11.4%, Relaxing 10.6%

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 24.5% ★, Science 22.9% ★, Life Sim 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Nature 11%

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: God Game 42.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Science 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 10.6%

The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.

Why similar: Science 28.9% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Education 11.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Space 9.5%

A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

Why similar: Nature 28.5%, Sandbox 24.2%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Relaxing 12.1%, Simulation 7.2%

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 29.5% ★, Nature 17.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Management 8.1%

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 20.3% ★, Science 17.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Nature 8.8%, Procedural Generation 7.4%

Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.

Why similar: God Game 31.2% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Nature 12.1%, Life Sim 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%

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 30.8% ★, Nature 15%, Sandbox 13.8%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Management 10.6%

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 41.3% ★, Nature 15.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Resource Management 8.1%

Kselebox is a sandbox game, which means you can do whatever you want in it! You can build a rocket and go to explore the vastness of space. Or maybe you want to build a huge car? No problem! Players can save their buildings and then publish them to the Steam Workshop.

Why similar: God Game 45.2% ★, Sandbox 20.7%, Simulation 9%, Relaxing 8%, Cute 5.8%

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: God Game 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Life Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Why similar: God Game 41.3% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Management 12.8%, Relaxing 7.9%, Simulation 6.4%

Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.

Why similar: God Game 51.4% ★, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 17.2%, Relaxing 8.2%, Atmospheric 3.5%

A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Life Sim 23%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Funny 8%

Ready to become a mad scientist? Synthesize, evolve, and command an army of unique creatures in your own lab. Manage your laboratory, master genetic essences, and dominate the battle arena in this deep creature collection simulator!

Why similar: Science 37.1% ★, Life Sim 17.5%, Management 14.6%, Relaxing 10%, Simulation 8.7%