- #1 Planet Zoo
97% matchVery Positive91% of 97,434 reviews2019
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Simulation 56.4%, Animals 24.4% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Casual 4.3%
- #2 Jurassic World Evolution
96% matchVery Positive87% of 55,268 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Dinosaurs 41.5% ★, Simulation 38.4%, Strategy 18.6%, Casual 1.5%
- #3 Ecosystem
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 634 reviews2024
Dev: Tom JohnsonPub: Slug Disco
Windows
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: Science 59.8%, Simulation 27.2%, Strategy 13%
- #4 Natural Instincts: European Forest
96% matchMixed45% of 299 reviews2021
Dev: DreamStorm StudiosPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
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: Science 41.3%, Education 28.4%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Casual 5.7%
- #5 Equilinox
94% matchVery Positive92% of 3,020 reviews2018
Dev: ThinMatrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Simulation 67.3%, Indie 17.8%, Casual 14.9%
- #6 Prehistoric Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive90% of 6,664 reviews2022
Dev: Blue MeridianPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.
Why similar: Science 28.1%, Dinosaurs 21.2% ★, Education 20.1%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 8.8%
- #7 Birthdays the Beginning
93% matchMixed64% of 986 reviews2017
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Simulation 58.5%, Dinosaurs 41.5% ★
- #8 Wildlife Park 3
92% matchMixed59% of 525 reviews2014
Dev: b-alive gmbh
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!
Why similar: Simulation 42%, Strategy 20.7%, Animals 19.6% ★, Casual 8.9%, Indie 8.8%
- #9 Creatura
91% matchMixed67% of 232 reviews2021
Dev: Koksny.com
Windows · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
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 49%, Simulation 20%, Education 19.4%, Indie 6.1%, Casual 5.4%
- #10 Planetary Life
89% matchVery Positive94% of 919 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Science 56.4%, Simulation 22.3%, Education 21.3%
- #11 Let's Build a Zoo
90% matchVery Positive89% of 4,098 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Simulation 61.8%, Strategy 24.8%, Animals 11.4% ★, Indie 2%
- #12 Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
91% matchMixed45% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated. Seed a world, walk away, and come back to species neither of us designed. Watch populations boom, bust and go extinct. Best left on a second monitor.
Why similar: Science 34.4%, Animals 19.9% ★, Education 19.2%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #13 Eco
89% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 49.3%, Education 30.8%, Simulation 19.9%
- #14 Niche - a genetics survival game
88% matchVery Positive86% of 5,225 reviews2017
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.
Why similar: Education 53.6%, Simulation 29.3%, Strategy 17.1%
- #15 The Sapling
87% matchVery Positive89% of 1,980 reviews2019
Dev: Wessel Stoop
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Science 46.9%, Education 19.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Dinosaurs 13.4% ★, Casual 3%
- #16 Megaquarium
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,770 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Why similar: Simulation 58.1%, Casual 16.4%, Strategy 14.2%, Indie 11.3%
- #17 Terra Firma 2
84% matchVery Positive92% of 191 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
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: Science 44.9%, Simulation 30.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Indie 9.4%, Casual 3.9%
- #18 Parkasaurus
85% matchVery Positive93% of 3,119 reviews2020
Dev: Washbear Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Why similar: Dinosaurs 42.3% ★, Simulation 39.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Casual 5.3%
- #19 Preserve
84% matchVery Positive93% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Grindstone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Simulation 52.2%, Strategy 32.3%, Casual 15.5%
- #20 Wildlife Park 2
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 561 reviews2014
Dev: b-alive gmbh
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.
Why similar: Simulation 46.9%, Strategy 26.2%, Indie 14.2%, Casual 12.7%
- #21 Two Point Museum
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,230 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: Simulation 57.2%, Strategy 28.3%, Casual 14.5%
- #22 Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 985 reviews2022
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.
Why similar: Simulation 50.8%, Dinosaurs 49.2% ★
- #23 Reus 2
81% matchVery Positive94% of 2,295 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Simulation 50.2%, Strategy 38.2%, Indie 11.6%
- #24 Biotope
83% matchMixed43% of 220 reviews2019
Dev: MBL Development
Windows · Mac
Biotope will be the most detailed and realistic aquarium simulator on the market. Biotope makes it possible to create complex aquarist ecosystems and simulate realistic life cycles of plants and fish.
Why similar: Science 38.6%, Education 32.2%, Simulation 23%, Casual 6.3%
- #25 Zoo Simulator
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 195 reviews2024
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
In Zoo Simulator, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!
Why similar: Education 39.5%, Simulation 34%, Indie 9.1%, Strategy 9%, Casual 8.3%
- #26 Dino Nest
79% matchVery Positive94% of 270 reviews2022
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
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: Simulation 37.8%, Dinosaurs 33.6% ★, Strategy 20.7%, Indie 8%
- #27 Plentiful
78% matchVery Positive93% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.
Why similar: Simulation 49.8%, Strategy 25.3%, Indie 14.2%, Casual 10.7%
- #28 Jurassic World Evolution 3
76% matchVery Positive93% of 13,266 reviews2025
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
Why similar: Simulation 41.2%, Dinosaurs 38.6% ★, Strategy 20.2%
- #29 Terra Firma
77% matchVery Positive94% of 603 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
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: Simulation 68.5%, Strategy 31.5%
- #30 Mesozoica
82% matchMostly Negative22% of 588 reviews2018
Dev: Underdog Interactive
Windows
Mesozoica - A full featured dinosaur theme park tycoon simulator in which you focus on the construction and management of your dinosaur wonderland. From choosing your starting company to your prime attraction, everything lies in your hands.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 32.9% ★, Simulation 32.6%, Strategy 17.2%, Indie 8.8%, Casual 8.5%
- #31 Terra Nil
76% matchVery Positive87% of 8,729 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Strategy 74.1%, Casual 25.9%
- #32 DinoSystem
78% matchVery Positive89% of 335 reviews2015
Dev: Daniele Ferraro
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
DinoSystem is a top-down ecosystem and survival simulation. Shape a prehistoric island as a god, or survive inside it as a human while animals, weather, water, terrain and your own body change over time.
Why similar: Simulation 44.7%, Dinosaurs 42% ★, Indie 13.3%
- #33 Crazy Plant Shop
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 288 reviews2014
Dev: Filament Classic
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Crazy Plant Shop, players learn about genes and inheritance by breeding zany plants! Special requests from mysterious customers require players to understand dominant and recessive traits and how genetic traits get passed through generations. Use profits to acquire new breeds, purchase shop upgrades, and acquire new customers!
Why similar: Education 32.1%, Science 29.5%, Strategy 17.5%, Casual 10.5%, Indie 10.4%
- #34 Save the Earth
77% matchVery Positive81% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: GameFirst
Windows
Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.
Why similar: Education 42%, Simulation 30.5%, Strategy 17.5%, Casual 9%, Indie 1.1%
- #35 Zoo Simulator: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version. In Zoo Simulator: Prologue, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!
Why similar: Simulation 45.9%, Education 20%, Strategy 18.9%, Casual 12.2%, Indie 3.1%
- #36 Thrive
73% matchVery Positive92% of 1,731 reviews2021
Dev: Revolutionary Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 48.2%, Education 26.8%, Simulation 21.1%, Casual 3.9%
- #37 Biomisland
74% matchVery Positive90% of 111 reviews2022
Dev: Remi Song
Windows
BIOmISLAND is a relaxing minimalist nature builder game. Visit randomly generated islands and restore nature at your own pace using diverse plants at your disposal.
Why similar: Strategy 57.2%, Casual 31.6%, Indie 11.3%
- #38 Aquarium Designer
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,214 reviews2021
Dev: Sigur StudioPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!
Why similar: Education 45.5%, Simulation 35%, Casual 10.5%, Indie 9%
- #39 Crest - an indirect god sim
75% matchMixed65% of 375 reviews2018
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Simulation 46%, Strategy 26.1%, Indie 15.2%, Casual 12.7%
- #40 The Universim
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,640 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Simulation 43.6%, Science 30.6%, Strategy 25.8%
- #41 Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife
71% matchVery Positive90% of 418 reviews2024
Dev: inDirection GamesPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
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: Animals 67.3% ★, Strategy 21.7%, Casual 11.1%
- #42 Earthtongue
74% matchVery Positive90% of 210 reviews2015
Dev: June StringsPub: junestrings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Simulation 80.5%, Indie 19.5%
- #43 Academia : School Simulator
72% matchVery Positive86% of 3,073 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Education 41.6%, Simulation 38.4%, Strategy 20%
- #44 Imagine Earth
72% matchVery Positive82% of 967 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Science 80.5%, Strategy 19.5%
- #45 Treeplanter: Plant real trees🌲
69% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Henry DriverPub: Future Friends Games
Windows · Mac
🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree! 🌲 Create and enjoy a peaceful, interactive woodland throughout the changing seasons.
Why similar: Education 50.5%, Simulation 36.2%, Casual 9.9%, Indie 3.4%
- #46 Among Ripples
73% matchMixed68% of 1,446 reviews2015
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Control a pond's ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is a meditative ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the pond and see how they interact.
Why similar: Simulation 64%, Casual 18.1%, Indie 17.9%
- #47 PolyPine
68% matchVery Positive96% of 399 reviews2025
Dev: Cloudberry PinePub: IndieArk
Windows
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: Simulation 69.3%, Casual 16.3%, Indie 14.3%
- #48 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,004 reviews2018
Dev: Quasar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Science 49.7%, Simulation 32.1%, Education 9.7%, Strategy 4.3%, Indie 4.2%
- #49 Dinosaur Park – Primeval Zoo
70% matchMixed69% of 214 reviews2022
Dev: upjers
Windows
It’s a sensation: A real t-rex has just hatched from an egg – in YOUR dino zoo game! Create a fantastic animal world teeming with prehistoric creatures and wow your visitors. In this dino game, you’re the proud owner of a dino zoo with numerous attractions.
Why similar: Animals 32.6% ★, Dinosaurs 26.7% ★, Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Casual 7.1%
- #50 Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
67% matchVery Positive88% of 289 reviews2025
Dev: Venugopalan Sreedharan
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Science 49.8%, Education 30.3%, Simulation 19.9%
- #51 The Bibites: Digital Life
66% matchVery Positive96% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Omnia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 46.8%, Education 30%, Simulation 20.1%, Casual 3.1%
- #52 Nature Game System
67% matchVery Positive85% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: North Star Digital GamesPub: North Star Games
Windows · Mac
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: Science 57.8%, Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 15.4%, Casual 7%
- #53 ZooKeeper
69% matchMixed69% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: ▲ Pyramid GamesPub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Become a Zoo Keeper, manage and build the zoo of your childhood dreams! Take care of the animals and create ideal conditions for them. Grow your zoo, add extraordinary species and prepare amazing attractions for visitors.
Why similar: Education 44.4%, Simulation 35.6%, Strategy 20.1%
- #54 Block'hood
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,258 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: Simulation 46.7%, Education 22.8%, Strategy 19.4%, Indie 11.1%
- #55 Synergy
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Simulation 61.8%, Strategy 38.2%
- #56 Beetle Uprising
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: Iocane Games, LLCPub: Disco Slug
Windows
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: Science 47.4%, Education 22.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Casual 4.2%
- #57 Zoo Park
70% matchMixed57% of 313 reviews2014
Dev: ExcaliburPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Care for over 40 different animals from all four corners of the Earth whilst running a professional programme of rescue, rehabilitation, research and conservation.
Why similar: Simulation 69.6%, Strategy 30.4%
- #58 Heliopedia
67% matchVery Positive88% of 214 reviews2021
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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: Simulation 100%
- #59 Growth
65% matchVery Positive90% of 327 reviews2023
Dev: VoodooDuckPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Simulation 50.8%, Strategy 32%, Casual 11.2%, Indie 5.9%
- #60 Vilmonic
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: Bludgeonsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Science 47.1%, Education 26.9%, Simulation 20.7%, Casual 5.3%