Games Like Sipho

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: Underwater 44.5% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Nature 12.4%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game where you design organisms that evolve through natural selection within a complex, interconnected environment.

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: Sandbox 21.4%, Roguelite 19.4%, Nature 14.9%, Survival 14.1%, Simulation 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing simulation that focuses on the growth and survival of microscopic organisms in an underwater setting.

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: Sandbox 31.6%, Nature 22.2%, Survival 16%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based survival game centers on managing the genetics and evolution of a species to ensure their survival in a harsh environment.

Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!

Why similar: Underwater 56.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Sandbox 6.5%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused simulation where you play as a fish, eating to grow larger and evolving to dominate the underwater food chain.

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 61.4%, Simulation 28.6%, Sci-fi 10%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive creature-building game that allows you to evolve your organism from a single cell into a complex space-faring species.

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 34.3%, Physics 15.1%, Atmospheric 15%, Simulation 13.3%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a complex, simulated ecosystem where you must survive as a creature navigating a dangerous, interconnected world.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Underwater 54.6% ★, Survival 17.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A intense underwater survival game that features modular ship building and complex systems management in a hostile alien ocean.

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: Underwater 48.3% ★, Sandbox 21.9%, Nature 12.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly detailed simulation of evolution and life, allowing you to experiment with genetics and ecosystems.

Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!

Why similar: Underwater 51.4% ★, Nature 14.1%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater strategy game where you protect your colony and manage the evolution of your crustacean followers.

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Action 33.4%, Physics 24.7%, Indie 19.7%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more horror-focused, this game captures the feeling of controlling a growing, evolving biological mass that consumes everything in its path.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Underwater 57.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Action 3.7%, Sci-fi 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential underwater survival experience that emphasizes exploration, resource gathering, and adapting to a dangerous aquatic world.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Underwater 46.3% ★, Building 16.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Nature 7.1%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder set on the ocean floor that requires careful management of underwater resources and infrastructure.

A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.

Why similar: Underwater 45% ★, Roguelite 19%, Physics 10%, Survival 7.7%, Action 6%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite exploration game set in the deep sea that emphasizes survival and adapting to increasingly hostile environments.

You are a lowly egg cell on a journey through a swollen sea of strange and humanoid fish. Prey on smaller life and growing larger and stronger to perhaps someday be born.

Why similar: Underwater 42% ★, Survival 17.6%, Nature 13%, Action 12.9%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D exploration game that captures the eerie, biological nature of underwater life and evolution.

Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper - an action roguelike with tower defense elements. Mine resources in caves, customize your Mech Spider, upgrade different weapons and face dangerous bosses that won't leave you a chance!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 50.1%, Roguelite 22.8%, Action 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines underwater mining and survival mechanics with procedural generation to create a tense, resource-driven experience.

Primordialis is a physics-based roguelike fish builder. Unleash your creativity to defeat creatures using venomous tentacles, electrical shocks, or exploding children. The possibilities are endless. Explore the primordial depths to reveal its secrets and discover what lies beyond.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.3%, Underwater 19.9% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Roguelite 7.9%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that utilizes physics-based combat and exploration, providing a similar gameplay loop to Sipho.

A 2D ecosystem and survival simulation where you can manage the ecology of an evolving island or survive on it as a human, facing realistic survival mechanics and a deep character progression system.

Why similar: Simulation 35.7%, Survival 32.3%, Action 18.6%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival simulation that focuses on ecosystem management and the evolutionary pressures faced by prehistoric creatures.

Dive The Depths is an action-roguelike set beneath the ocean's surface. As a humble diver, you must navigate the world filled with bizarre sea creatures, submerged ruins, and forgotten histories. Can you conquer the depths and unravel the secrets that hidden beneath the waves?

Why similar: Underwater 34.8% ★, Action Roguelike 28.5%, Perma Death 11.5%, Roguelite 11.1%, Physics 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging underwater roguelike that focuses on exploration and survival in a pixel-art 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: Sandbox 38.8%, Real-Time with Pause 29.6% ★, Simulation 21.6%, Strategy 4.9%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure simulation sandbox that focuses on the mechanics of natural selection and evolutionary biology.

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.5%, Sandbox 24.1%, Survival 11%, Strategy 9.7%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action game featuring destructible environments and base-building that emphasizes survival against waves of enemies.

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 39.4%, Building 35.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on biological building and management, allowing players to craft and automate life forms.

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Building 20.7%, Roguelite 16.9%, Physics 11.1%, Strategy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that incorporates creature collection and base-building in an open-world setting.

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.7%, Survival 29.8%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that blends creature collection with automation and base-building in a dangerous, alien landscape.

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: Action Roguelike 27.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Perma Death 12%, Roguelite 11.3%, Nature 9.2%

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 45.8%, Building 17.9%, Roguelite 13.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused survival game that requires building defenses to withstand constant environmental threats.

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: Survival 29%, Nature 23.5%, Simulation 17.8%, Action 12%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tasks you with guiding a lineage through millions of years of evolution and adaptation.

Project Abyss is a deep sea adventure game where you explore as a diver, forced to survive a destiny that goes deeper than anyone imagined.

Why similar: Simulation 34.8%, Action 28%, Survival 20.7%, Indie 16.5%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater action-adventure game that requires players to scavenge and survive against dangerous marine life.

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.5% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Strategy 15.8%, Survival 15.4%, Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features modular ship building and survival management, requiring players to adapt their designs to survive in space.

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 29.3%, Survival 26.1%, Simulation 20.2%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a mother animal and her offspring, emphasizing the biological struggle of life in the wild.

Play as different fish, devour opponents in the ruthless underwater world of survival of the fittest, and evolve your abilities.

Why similar: Underwater 60.9% ★, Roguelite 15%, Survival 14%, Action 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.

Why similar: Underwater 48.6% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 13.6%, Survival 7.5%, Sci-fi 4.8%

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.1%, Sandbox 19%, Perma Death 16.6%, Physics 12.6%, Roguelite 11.7%

Collect food to evolve and fight for your life against enemy cells in this deep underwater, survivor-like, roguelite experience. Unlock parts to customize your character and become your own unique cell.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 71.5%, Action 13.2%, Nature 9.1%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Building 26.9%, Survival 16.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Action 6.7%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.6%, Building 26.3%, Survival 15.7%, Action 8.9%, Simulation 8.7%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.5%, Building 23.2%, Survival 17.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Action 7.7%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Sandbox 33.3%, Survival 19.8%, Simulation 14.9%, Physics 14.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Welcome to the perilous nuclear-contaminated waters, where all creatures are mutating. Start as an ordinary small fish, struggling to survive in this toxic sea. Through continuous evolution and adaptation, you will grow into a powerful ocean monster and ultimately become the sole ruler of this ocean

Why similar: Underwater 40.1% ★, Roguelite 21.4%, Survival 12.5%, Nature 10.4%, Action 10.2%

A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.

Why similar: Building 40.9%, Simulation 24.2%, Strategy 23.6%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 2%

Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG. Explore different interconnected environments, gather materials to create your unique arsenal and build and automate your base.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Roguelite 16.1%, Survival 10.5%, Action 10.3%

Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Action 9.8%, Roguelite 8.1%

IIslands of War is a 2D roguelike where you build floating islands out of blocks and modules. Travel through different realms to various locations to collect powerful items, shop for items, forge your items to become more powerful, and battle the Dark Order.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 43.8%, Building 22.2%, Action 20.7%, Indie 13.4%

Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 17.8%, Action 12.3%, Survival 9.4%

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 29.6%, Sandbox 25.7%, Simulation 15.9%, Action 11.9%, Indie 7.6%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.4%, Survival 23.7%, Simulation 17.4%, Action 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Survive waves! Choose new abilities! Modify your hero in any way you like! Craft a powerful masterpiece, or a horrible concoction of awful ideas! Discover secrets! Sandbox your way to victory! Boost! Survive! Boosted Survivors!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 58.3%, Sandbox 27.2%, Action 10.3%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 1%

Swirl W@tch is a tense stealth-action roguelite that takes place on an over-exploited gas giant. Infiltrate industrial installations, evade or eliminate guard ships, commit corporate sabotage and grow the movement to unlock new gear. Can your actions free this otherworldly world?

Why similar: Underwater 36.4% ★, Action Roguelike 20.6%, Roguelite 14.8%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 6.4%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 43.7% ★, Building 22.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Sci-fi 5.6%

In Enlightenment, you play in a roguelike action-shooter with a fast-paced challenging journey deep into a underground complex called "the Ark". Players will be tested by large varieties of enemies in a procedurally-generated dungeon, and become stronger by learning from the inevitable deaths.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 50.5%, Roguelite 13.5%, Action 10.8%, Survival 8.4%, Perma Death 6.8%

Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?

Why similar: Sandbox 35.8%, Perma Death 19.4%, Survival 15.5%, Simulation 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Building 19.9%, Strategy 18.3%, Survival 11.8%, Physics 10.5%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Building 27.3%, Sandbox 26.1%, Survival 17.6%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 13.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Building 26.5%, Survival 15%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 14%

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 37.5% ★, Strategy 23.7%, Level Editor 12.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 6%

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.

Why similar: Building 36.9%, Sandbox 26.7%, Survival 20.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Nature 3.7%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.7%, Survival 22%, Building 15.4%, Strategy 8.6%, Physics 7.1%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Sandbox 22.2%, Strategy 21%, Simulation 15.4%, Level Editor 10.9%

Cryptical Path is an action rogue-lite that pushes the boundaries of the genre. Play the Architect, build your own rooms, and tame an ever-changing labyrinth you've been summoned in.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 58.8%, Perma Death 13.5%, Roguelite 13%, Action 6.9%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Creatures Inc is an open world survival experience where taming creatures is the key to survival. Explore a hostile world solo or in 2 player online co-op, make impactful choices, upgrade your character, and turn deadly creatures into powerful allies.

Why similar: Survival 22.1%, Simulation 19.2%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 16.9%, Action 15.1%