Games like Bacteria
Remember how minimalist and relaxing Bacteria felt at its best? These games could fill that gap nicely.
Auto Cell: Game of Life
Auto Cell run in a two-dimensional grid world. Each grid can be regarded as a small life. It has two states: survival or death.
Minimalist, Relaxing
85% of 71 Steam reviews are positiveFreeNo Game No LIFE
"No Game No LIFE" is a puzzle game that erases cubes that increase and decrease according to the rules of "Conway's Game of Life".
Minimalist, Relaxing
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Little Cells
Launch colorful cells to create chains reactions and survive the microscopic chaos. Match colors to eliminate threat and cure this deadly infection before it spread.
Minimalist
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Cell HD: emergence
Based on a 3D version of mathematician John Conway's "Game of Life," the game puts the player in a biological world that is uncannily alive.
Minimalist
63% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Containment
Containment is a turn-based, minimalist strategy game about managing the growth of bacteria. Use antibiotics to keep their power under control as you work towards containment.
Minimalist, Relaxing
83% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Microcosmum: survival of cells
A real-time strategy about microorganisms, played out in a calm, colorful microscopic world. Send your cells drifting across the level, absorb weaker neighbors and grow, and outmaneuver every rival on the board. Simple to learn, oddly soothing, and surprisingly tactical once the field fills up.
Minimalist, Relaxing
80% of 1,119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99LifeGameSimulator
How the extremely complicated universe made with simple 16 particles? This life game will be short explanation of that. Simple rule to the complicated results.
Minimalist, Relaxing
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Changes
A puzzle game about pushing stories out of living stones that evolve every time you move.
Minimalist, Relaxing
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Plankton
Minimalist style game : plankton simulation, an electronic pet generated by math codes. Under your care it will slowly grow up and evolve.
Minimalist, Relaxing
76% of 82 Steam reviews are positive$0.99biorhythm
You are bacteria, lost in the human bloodstream. Explore, fight, and uncover the mystery of your new home to the beat of the heart.
Minimalist
92% of 50 Steam reviews are positiveFreeAutomata Empire
Seize power and build an empire of fuzzy cellular automata monsters! Herd hundreds of mindless subjects to smash your rivals' castles and steal their territory in this RTS inspired by Conway's Game of Life.
Minimalist
67% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Lifecraft
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!
81% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$22.99
Cheaper than Bacteria
Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated.
53% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$0.76
oO
"oO" is a hardcore minimal arcade game.
89% of 839 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.99
Reflex
A plain little puzzle game about clearing every shape off the screen.
87% of 999 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$0.99
THE 2048
THE 2048 is a fun, simple and very addictive game. You need to combine tiles with numbers to reach the number 2048! Break your brain and be happy!
88% of 94 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$0.74
Oik
Remove blocks so the blue one lands on its platform and stays there for three seconds.
90% of 1,639 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Unalive
Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities.
72% of 299 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$0.74
Byte Family
Overcome obstacles and restore the cyber world ByteFamily, eliminating the system virus, unlocking new game modes and gaining new skills!
85% of 140 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.74
Tetropunk
The classic arcade is back in a new style! It's time to prove that you are one of the best!
73% of 252 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$0.74
Sizeable
Resize objects in tiny 3D dioramas to reveal what is hidden inside them, one relaxing puzzle at a time.
97% of 3,206 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$6.99
Oh No! Bugs!
Oh No! Bugs! Is a casual arcade game where you squash bugs by pushing blocks. Play solo or with friends, locally or online!
80% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Hidden gems like Bacteria
Pathogenic
You are the disease. Pathogenic is a fast roguelike shooter set inside a human body: hunt cells, rip out their organelles and graft them onto your…
93% of 5,147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 655$9.99
Simultree
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.
86% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Bombe
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once. You write small rules for spotting bombs and clearing squares, the game checks the logic and…
95% of 383 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Can't Live Without Electricity
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
94% of 231 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Growth
Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of…
90% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Thrive
Grow a microbe into a species, choosing every adaptation as your alien world changes around you.
92% of 1,726 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$4.99
Lifecraft
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…
81% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$22.99
Life on the Edge
Life on the Edge is an educational tower defense game. You play as a cell struggling to survive waves of bacteria and the COVID-19 virus.
88% of 102 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Understand
Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules.
90% of 835 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$3.99
hexceed
Read the numbers, mark the hidden dangers, and clear colorful hex grids one calm, careful step at a time.
89% of 2,782 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31Free
Delete
You clear 3D figures of red squares by reading the numbers and reasoning your way through, one shape at a time.
95% of 1,604 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Tap from lifeless rock to humans, dinosaurs, Mars and beyond.
89% of 28,553 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,045Free
Newest games like Bacteria
Substrate: Emergence
Grow fluorescent cell colonies in a living evolution sandbox. Guide mutations, breed new strains, and outcompete rival labs for territory.
89% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Bacteria Buster
Bacteria Buster is a fast-paced petri-dish cleanup game. Swat bacteria, upgrade your tools, deploy six Nano Robots, and develop four automatic…
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Bloody Grids
A Minesweeper-style puzzle where the mines bite back. Read the numbers, work out which mutated creature is weaker than you, and eat your way toward…
86% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
Pathogenic
You are the disease. Pathogenic is a fast roguelike shooter set inside a human body: hunt cells, rip out their organelles and graft them onto your…
93% of 5,147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 655$9.99
Simultree
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.
86% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
胞-胞实验室 Cell-Cell Lab
Cell-Cell Lab is a grid-based puzzle game! Fangfang, a cell born from a secret experiment, will use its unique fusion ability to cooperate with…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Survivor Cells
Discover the beauty and fragility of life in Survivor Cells, a unique survival game against viruses and bacteria, which strategically combines the…
76% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Lifecraft
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…
81% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$22.99
Growth
Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of…
90% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
HYNPYTOL
They're coming. There's no hope. Still, you're a HYNPYTOL.
98% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Metavaxx
The world's first minesweeper shooter. Identify infected cells, peacefully clear your way around them... or shoot 'em down and face the consequences.
87% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
FUNG
UNLEASH THE LIVING PIXELS - Nurture your mesmerizing slime mold and dive into the depths of a radiation-soaked realm, harnessing its energy.
100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$4.99