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Bring your drawings to life with eyes, legs, wings, and other parts, then set them loose on the Junk Planet in this sandbox ecosystem sim.
Miss the replayable and hand-drawn pull of EcoGenesis? These games make natural next picks for you.
Equilinox is a relaxing nature game where you build your own ecosystems from scratch. Place plants and animals, keep every species happy, and spend earned points on genetic tweaks that turn ordinary sheep into bouncing rainbow oddities. Gentle music, low-poly cuteness, and a world that grows at your pace.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
Seed a simulated ocean with random creatures and watch evolution do the rest. They learn to swim, hunt, mate and adapt while you sculpt reefs, tune their DNA and track the family tree. Slow, strange and oddly relaxing.
Replayable, Relaxing
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!
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
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.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
As a Keeper sent by the Cosmic Collective, you turn a barren planet into BioEden: recycle debris, wire up solar power and water, clean rivers and soil, then raise dozens of cute animals inside your dome until they can return to the wild. No fail states, just quiet progress.
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
An ecosystem simulation running in your hands. Transform a desertic world into a lush forest. No stress, play at your own pace. This world is at your disposal. Terraform the landscape, add plants and animals. Create your perfect ecosystem.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
Eco Park is a game about ecology and lo-fi hip-hop. Manage a dynamic ecosystem with creatures eating, breeding, and dying in real time. You’ll need to introduce species to increase biodiversity. Keep population sizes under control, or one species might extinguish another.
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
A living prehistoric ecosystem that does not revolve around you. Shape the island as a god, or enter it as a human and survive while animals, weather, water, terrain and your own body change over time.
Replayable
Bring your drawings to life with eyes, legs, wings, and other parts, then set them loose on the Junk Planet in this sandbox ecosystem sim. Breed and fuse surprising new creatures, tackle strange research requests, and recreate the lost ecosystem of Sage’s home planet.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
Shape a dead planet into a living world. Move mountains and seas, tune the climate, then seed cells and watch them evolve into plants, animals and strange chimera of your making. Guide every step or sit back and see what 50,000 years cook up. A calm, colorful sandbox for anyone who ever wanted to play at being a very patient god.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
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.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
Grow a forest from a handful of seeds. Trees live, die and make room for squirrels, moose and foxes, each with its own habitat to fill. Poke animals to set off chaos, survive fires and storms, and shape a cozy ecosystem that keeps growing while you watch.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful

Bring your drawings to life with eyes, legs, wings, and other parts, then set them loose on the Junk Planet in this sandbox ecosystem sim.

Eco Park is a game about ecology and lo-fi hip-hop. Manage a dynamic ecosystem with creatures eating, breeding, and dying in real time.

Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated.

From the back-catalog of Pocketwatch Games, 2005's Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa was the game that started this indie's journey.

Strategy game about genes and animal species. Evolve, reproduce, expand to new territories, survive, and fight to achieve various goals like…

As an entrepreneur from a far away galaxy, raise and breed the exotic creatures of Earth, then sell them back to your home world.

🦕 Dino Park is a cozy idle game about collecting dinosaurs! 🦖 Watch your dinosaurs level up in real time, earning more money for your park.

Watch a simulated 2D world including weather, plants, animals, and humans in this casual sandbox game about nature and life.

Hatch a hand-drawn creature, feed and dress it up, and let it hunt treasures from other planets while you get on with your day.

Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger…


Grow a living pixel ecosystem from a single egg into a colony of 1,000+ Whomers.

Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.

Terraform a barren world, tune its climate and watch the life you seed evolve across millennia, all at your own unhurried pace.

Plant a few seeds, watch a living woodland take shape, and gently nudge the animals that call it home.

Place plants, water and animals to build living biomes, at your own pace and with no pressure at all.

Digital life that actually evolves. Bibites are tiny creatures with neural network brains and genes of their own: set up a world, let natural…

Guide tribes from their first huts to the stars by shaping nature around them, one calm turn at a time.

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

Breed dinosaurs, build sprawling parks and keep the chaos contained, one enclosure at a time.

As a Keeper sent by the Cosmic Collective, you turn a barren planet into BioEden: recycle debris, wire up solar power and water, clean rivers and…

Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?

Seed a simulated ocean with random creatures and watch evolution do the rest.

A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets.

As a Keeper sent by the Cosmic Collective, you turn a barren planet into BioEden: recycle debris, wire up solar power and water, clean rivers and…

Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems.

Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.

Create your own island without limits. Populate your island with dinosaurs, choose from over 50 species.

Build a living pond where every fish has a unique genetic code.

Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works.

Now includes Jurassic, Flight, and Arctic Tundra! Adapt your species to survive where food is scarce and predators lurk at every turn.

Breed dinosaurs, build sprawling parks and keep the chaos contained, one enclosure at a time.

Terraform a barren world, tune its climate and watch the life you seed evolve across millennia, all at your own unhurried pace.

You are an astrobiologist stranded on a lifeless planet. Breathe new life into this mysterious world by gathering plants, animals, and research…

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

Place plants, water and animals to build living biomes, at your own pace and with no pressure at all.