
Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated.
Looking for that same replayable and relaxing spark as Tiny Wilds Simulator? Give these games a try when the craving hits.
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, Minimalist
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, Cute
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, Cute
Plant a tree, watch the forest grow. Wild Souls is a chill ecosystem sim with no time pressure, inspired by Don't Starve and Zoo Tycoon. Build your own world like you would a garden, experiment which animals and plant species can live together, manage and balance the populations, write YOUR stories.
Replayable, Relaxing, Cute
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
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, Minimalist
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, Cute
Watch a simulated 2D world including weather, plants, animals, and humans in this casual sandbox game about nature and life. Start meteor showers, spawn new animals, or just let things play out naturally. It's like a screensaver you can play.
Replayable, Relaxing, Retro
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, 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, Retro
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, Relaxing, Minimalist

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

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

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

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

Perfect for relaxing, background running, or anyone fascinated by tiny ecosystems.

EcoGenesis is a 2D black-box ecosystem simulator where you need to craft an ecosystem that can withstand the test of time.

Wildlife Planet is a Simulation & Idle game with the theme of wildlife and nature.

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

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

Shape an empty island into a wacky ecosystem. The game puts you in the role as a stranded spirit, with the power to give and take life.

Don't touch grass. Become grass!

Strategically place animals, unlock upgrades, and master the art of ecosystem management. Are you ready to shape the balance of nature?

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.

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

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

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

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…

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

Design creatures and plants, release them into one world, and watch what evolution does with your creations.

Become iconic animals and fight for survival in the The WILDS.

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

Guide a family of soft, cat-like creatures through genetics, hunger and wild islands, one careful turn at a time.

Shadow Stalk Studios is an indie company creating Untamed Kingdom. We want to create a space for everyone to enjoy and explore with friends.

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…

Build creatures from a handful of traits and set them loose.

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.

🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree!

Seeds & Sparks is a pixel god-sim about living ecosystems and tribes.

Nestled at your screen’s edge, a tranquil idle world unfurls as you go about your day.

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

Don't touch grass. Become grass!

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.