Thrive
Grow a microbe into a species, choosing every adaptation as your alien world changes around you.
92% of 1,727 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$4.99
Games like EvoLife
Chasing that minimalist and relaxing feeling you got from EvoLife? Browse these games for your next favorite.
Thrive
Start as the first spark of life on an alien planet and steer your species across billions of years. Build your microbe from real organelles, hunt or photosynthesise your way to survival, and watch rival species evolve against you. A calm, science-driven evolution sandbox where every run plays out differently.
Minimalist, Relaxing, Replayable
92% of 1,727 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$4.99Ecosystem
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.
Relaxing, Replayable
76% of 611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99The Bibites: Digital Life
Digital life that actually evolves. Bibites are tiny creatures with neural network brains and genes of their own: set up a world, let natural selection do its thing, and watch new species, predators and parasites emerge. Or skip evolution and engineer your own lifeform. An aquarium, a science lab and a god game in one.
Relaxing, Replayable
96% of 229 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$9.99Gridworld
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.
Minimalist, Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
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.
Relaxing, Replayable
73% of 976 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99The Sapling
Design your own plants, algae, fungi and animals, then set them loose in a world together. Add random mutations and watch evolution fill every niche, or shape the planet yourself, ice ages included. A calm, creative ecosystem toy from solo developer Wessel Stoop.
Relaxing, Replayable
88% of 1,988 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$17.99Planetary Life
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.
Relaxing, Replayable
94% of 949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99Multicellular
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?
Replayable
62% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Evolution
Evolution is a real time simulation of the evolutionary process. Creatures have DNA that defines their structure, traits, how they see the world around them, and how they react to it. Each creature is unique, most die quickly, some die a little slower, and others survive (some just like rocks, they usually die too).
Minimalist, Replayable
49% of 112 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSubstrate: Emergence
Grow fluorescent cell colonies in a living evolution sandbox. Guide mutations, breed new strains, and outcompete rival labs for territory. Every cell has its own genome, so no two experiments play out the same.
Relaxing, Replayable
89% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$9.09ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
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.
Minimalist, Relaxing, Replayable
83% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99Lifecraft
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!
Replayable
81% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$22.99
Cheaper than EvoLife
Gridworld
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger…
85% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
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$9.09
Cellings
Cellings is a creative sandbox game taking place in an abstract procedural world full of various species.
95% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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
Biosys Inc
Biosys Inc. is a biology simulator that takes you to a new planet where you will be responsible for the process of abiogenesis.
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
evolution for beginners
Evolution For Beginners is an evolution simulation where you can create and cultivate your own species by only using evolutionary mechanics.
67% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$3.49
Plankton
Minimalist style game : plankton simulation, an electronic pet generated by math codes. Under your care it will slowly grow up and evolve.
76% of 82 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Eon of Life
Eon of Life is a game in which you guide the evolution of a creature for as many million years as you can survive!
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Evolution of Species 2: Online
Welcome to the world of microscopic creatures! Help your creation evolve from an inconspicuous inhabitant of the microscopic depths into a unique…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Sparkle 2 Evo
Guide a tiny aquatic creature through a surreal deep, choosing what it eats and what it becomes.
72% of 1,528 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
PHYSARUM: Slime Mold Simulator
PHYSARUM is a sandbox simulation game. Simulate the real world slime mold Physarum polycephalum by generating millions of living particles.
90% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Hidden gems like EvoLife
Planetary Life
Terraform a barren world, tune its climate and watch the life you seed evolve across millennia, all at your own unhurried pace.
94% of 949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
The Bibites: Digital Life
Digital life that actually evolves. Bibites are tiny creatures with neural network brains and genes of their own: set up a world, let natural…
96% of 229 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$9.99
Strange Seed
Eat DNA, grow new body parts and fight your way from forests to volcanoes as the build you design.
85% of 456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$14.99
ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways.
83% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
Ecosystem
Seed a simulated ocean with random creatures and watch evolution do the rest.
76% of 611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Thrive
Grow a microbe into a species, choosing every adaptation as your alien world changes around you.
92% of 1,727 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
The Sapling
Design creatures and plants, release them into one world, and watch what evolution does with your creations.
88% of 1,988 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$17.99
Equilinox
Fill a low-poly landscape with plants and animals, balance each ecosystem, and unlock genetic quirks that make your creatures wonderfully strange.
93% of 2,608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Space Simulation Toolkit
Build tiny worlds from atoms, tweak their rules, and see what happens.
80% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.77
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Tap from lifeless rock to humans, dinosaurs, Mars and beyond.
89% of 28,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,045Free
Evolution Board Game
Predators lurk, food is scarce, you must adapt - or go extinct.
81% of 349 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Newest games like EvoLife
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$9.09
SquareLife
Build creatures from a handful of traits and set them loose.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
Eat, grow and stitch together absurd animal abilities into a new chimera every run, in a fast and funny pixel ecosystem that keeps you on your toes.
77% of 7,144 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 232$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
ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways.
83% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Eon of Life
Eon of Life is a game in which you guide the evolution of a creature for as many million years as you can survive!
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Strange Seed
Eat DNA, grow new body parts and fight your way from forests to volcanoes as the build you design.
85% of 456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$14.99
Planetary Life
Terraform a barren world, tune its climate and watch the life you seed evolve across millennia, all at your own unhurried pace.
94% of 949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
Infinite Blue
Discover an immersive ocean Eco-Sim where you can be almost any animal under the sea!
64% of 373 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Sandboxels
A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.
94% of 1,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$0.99
Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration.
87% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$14.99