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 948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
Games like SquareLife
Looking for that same replayable and minimalist spark as SquareLife? 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.
Replayable, Relaxing
88% of 1,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$17.99Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
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.
Replayable, Minimalist, Relaxing
53% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$0.76Gridworld
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.
Replayable, Minimalist, Relaxing
85% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99Ecosystem
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
76% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99Species: 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.
Replayable, Relaxing
73% of 975 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99ANLIFE: 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.
Replayable, Minimalist, Relaxing
83% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99The 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.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
96% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$9.99Planetary 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.
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
94% of 948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99Equilinox
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
93% of 2,608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99Birthdays 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!
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
63% of 903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99Evolution
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).
Replayable, Minimalist
48% of 111 Steam reviews are positiveFreeVilmonic
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!
Replayable, Relaxing, Colorful
71% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hidden gems like SquareLife
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 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$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 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
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
Deisim
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
93% of 885 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Tiny Life
In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household.
88% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.24
Sipho
Sipho is an action survival game with an intricate building system. Grow your own creature and take over the local ecosystem.
83% of 342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
Creature Crafter
Design creatures from body parts, watch them come to life, and explore open worlds with friends.
86% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$7.99
Ecosystem
Seed a simulated ocean with random creatures and watch evolution do the rest.
76% of 610 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 1,726 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$4.99
The Sapling
Design creatures and plants, release them into one world, and watch what evolution does with your creations.
88% of 1,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$17.99
Newest games like SquareLife
Dinosaur
Create your own island without limits. Populate your island with dinosaurs, choose from over 50 species.
67% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Neofold
The infinite creature-collector where each pet is uniquely yours, generated live by your GPU.
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$3.19
Paralives
Design every room, create your characters and settle into a colorful town at your own pace.
89% of 20,799 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 606$39.99
OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing.
81% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
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 7,140 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 238$9.99
Plentiful
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works.
90% of 87 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$7.99
Simultree
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.
86% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Creature Creation Station
A creative sandbox playground. Create characters, watch them play together, and easily share your creations with friends!
100% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways.
83% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
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 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$14.99
Life Choices
Shape Your Life, Shape Their Stories!Life Choices is a fun and thought-provoking social simulation game where every decision you make shapes the…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99