Games like Thrive

Still thinking about Thrive and its replayable and relaxing tone? These games could fill that gap nicely.

Planetary 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
94% of 948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
92% of 67,348 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 751$19.99
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$17.99
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 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
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
73% of 975 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Multicellular
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$9.99
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Tap from lifeless rock to humans, dinosaurs, Mars and beyond. Cell to Singularity turns 4.5 billion years of evolution into a relaxed cosmic clicker, where every click earns Entropy and unlocks the next fish, lizard, mammal or machine, with real science notes along the way.
Relaxing
89% of 28,541 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,045Free
EvoLife
Create and evolve your own digital lifeforms! Watch or interact as your creations adapt and thrive in a world governed by the laws of physics. Download now and start your own evolutionary journey!
Replayable, Relaxing, Minimalist
83% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
76% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$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.
Replayable, Relaxing
67% of 219 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Evolution
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 positiveFree
Intelligent 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, Relaxing, Minimalist
53% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$0.76

Cheaper than Thrive

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

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

$0.76

Gridworld

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

$1.99

Plankton

Minimalist style game : plankton simulation, an electronic pet generated by math codes. Under your care it will slowly grow up and evolve.

$0.99

Tyto Ecology

Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems.

$3.99

Mycelarium

Flick your mycelium through the soil, tap hidden water and unlock strange mutations at your own pace.

$3.99

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…

$2.99

Earth Simulator

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

$0.99

evolution for beginners

Evolution For Beginners is an evolution simulation where you can create and cultivate your own species by only using evolutionary mechanics.

$3.49

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.

$3.99

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!

$1.99

Plague Inc: Evolved

Spread a pathogen across the globe, mutate it faster than humanity can fight back, and watch your strategy play out differently every run.

$2.99

Gaia

An incremental game with non-standard counting about creating life. Because there's nothing special about base 10.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Thrive

Planetary Life

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

$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…

$9.99

Simultree

Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.

$6.99

Strange Seed

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

$14.99

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

Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar

Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration.

$14.99

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

Sipho

Sipho is an action survival game with an intricate building system. Grow your own creature and take over the local ecosystem.

$17.99

Ecosystem

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

$19.99

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.

$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…

$22.99

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