Games like Planetary Life

Still thinking about Planetary Life and its colorful and relaxing tone? Browse these games for your next favorite.

The 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, Cute, Replayable
88% of 1,988 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$17.99
Birthdays the Beginning
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!
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
63% of 903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
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.
Relaxing, Replayable
92% of 1,732 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$4.99
Heliopedia
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!
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
87% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Ecosystem
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: 1$19.99
Earth Simulator
Build a planet from scratch or start with the real Earth, then watch humanity grow from tribes to spaceships. Sculpt continents, steer the winds, send rain or meteors, and step down from the heavens to walk the streets of any city you made.
Relaxing, Replayable
93% of 242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$4.99
SPORE™
Grow one species from a tidepool cell to a starfaring civilization, shaping its bodies, huts, trucks and starships along the way. Five short stages keep changing what you do, and your earlier choices follow you forward. It is bright, silly and easy to pick up.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
92% of 67,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 718$19.99
Species: 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 positive$19.99
The Planet Crafter
You land on a dead red planet with one job: make it livable. You gather ore, build machines that add heat, pressure and oxygen, and watch puddles become lakes and moss become forest. Slow, calm survival crafting with a payoff you can see from orbit.
Relaxing, Replayable
96% of 70,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,524$23.99
Equilinox
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.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
93% of 2,608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
WorldBox - God Simulator
WorldBox is a pixel-art god simulator and sandbox where you paint continents, settle humans, orcs, elves and dwarves, then watch kingdoms rise, sail away, rebel and fall. Shape traits, cultures and laws or erase it all with lightning, plague and Crabzilla. It rewards tinkering, watching and retelling what just happened.
Colorful, Relaxing, Replayable
95% of 52,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,082$19.99
Creatura
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.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
67% of 219 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Planetary Life

Thrive

Grow a microbe into a species, choosing every adaptation as your alien world changes around you.

$4.99

Heliopedia

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

$4.99

Earth Simulator

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

$4.99

Equilinox

Fill a low-poly landscape with plants and animals, balance each ecosystem, and unlock genetic quirks that make your creatures wonderfully strange.

$9.99

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

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

$6.99

Plentiful

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

$7.99

Earthtongue

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…

$4.99

DinoSystem

A living prehistoric ecosystem that does not revolve around you.

$7.99

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…

$9.99

Planeta

Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish!

$0.99

Creature Crafter

Design creatures from body parts, watch them come to life, and explore open worlds with friends.

$7.99

Reus

Raise mountains, plant forests and keep your tiny humans happy as their greed grows.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Planetary Life

Earth Simulator

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

$4.99

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…

$9.99

Terra Firma

Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation.

Free

Strange Seed

Eat DNA, grow new body parts and fight your way from forests to volcanoes as the build you design.

$14.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

Plan B: Terraform

Turn frozen wasteland into green, living terrain by moving water, resources and people across a calm hex-grid planet.

$11.99

Reus 2

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

$24.99

ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution

A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways.

$13.99

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49

BioEden

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…

$21.99

Creature Crafter

Design creatures from body parts, watch them come to life, and explore open worlds with friends.

$7.99

Ecosystem

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

$19.99

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