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 World Climate Lab
Loved how relaxing and minimalist World Climate Lab can get? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
Terra Firma 2
Sculpt mountains, set the rain, nudge tectonic plates, then let nature take over. Terra Firma 2 simulates rivers, erosion and whole ecosystems on maps up to 16,000 km², and you can watch it all unfold at your own pace. A god game where the weather does the work.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
92% of 231 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$19.99Universe Sandbox
A physics-based space simulator where you play with the universe itself. Build solar systems, nudge planets out of orbit, boil oceans, spin Jupiter apart and watch a supernova unfold. Real gravity, real science, and no consequences except the ones you create. Calm stargazing and total cosmic mayhem, both at your own pace.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
96% of 28,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 470$29.99Earth 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
92% of 236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$4.99Planetary 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 948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99SpaceEngine
A 1:1 scale simulator of the entire Universe, built on real astronomy. Fly from Earth's surface to a black hole billions of light-years away without a single loading screen, land on procedurally generated worlds, and speed up time to watch a thousand moons tick through their orbits. No objectives, no fail states: just you, the stars, and a lot of quiet.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
96% of 16,266 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 220$29.99Gaia Maker
Gaia Maker is a planet-wide simulation game of terraforming, based on real physics and geology. As the planet's overseer, wield advanced technologies to reshape barren planets into life-filled worlds. Foster animal life, cultivate civilizations, or destroy them. Their fate is in your hands.
Relaxing, Replayable
95% of 37 Steam reviews are positiveFreeFlowScape
FlowScape is a sandbox where you paint nature scenes instead of building them the hard way. Pick one of 20 landscapes, brush down trees, houses, dragons and critters from over 300 models, then turn the sun, layer in birdsong and water, and frame the shot. No goals, no failure, just a quiet hour that turns into three.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric
83% of 1,229 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Exploration Pro
Start building Today! Create your ultimate fictional world! Enjoy this addictive endless world builders.
Relaxing, Replayable
$9.99Spaceflight Simulator
Build rockets from real-world parts, launch them, and find out the hard way why landing is the tricky part. A 2D space sandbox with honest physics, the whole Solar System to reach, and no punishment for exploding. Trial, error, one more rocket.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
96% of 9,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 148$14.99Absolute Sol
A physics sandbox of our Solar System. Fly the planets, change orbits, and watch Earth freeze, boil, or take a hit. Spawn worlds, cross Roche limits, and inspect atmospheres, magnetospheres, rings, and stellar heatmaps.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$6.99World Builder
World Builder is creative tool that will allow anyone to easily create in worlds and landscapes in VR.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing
77% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Watershed
Make it rain anywhere on Earth: a desert, a forest, a mountain range. Watch real terrain fill with rain, rivers find their way to the sea, lakes form in valleys and flash floods rush down dry canyons. A rain and flood simulation sandbox built on real elevation data.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
$16.99
Cheaper than World Climate Lab
Earth Simulator
Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.
92% of 236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$4.99
Exploration Pro
Start building Today! Create your ultimate fictional world! Enjoy this addictive endless world builders.
$9.99
FlowScape
Paint trees, castles and creatures into a 3D landscape, then adjust the light and take the perfect picture.
83% of 1,229 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Spaceflight Simulator
Assemble rockets from real parts and take them from the launch pad to the far reaches of the Solar System, one failure at a time.
96% of 9,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 148$14.99
Absolute Sol
A physics sandbox of our Solar System. Fly the planets, change orbits, and watch Earth freeze, boil, or take a hit.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
World Builder
World Builder is creative tool that will allow anyone to easily create in worlds and landscapes in VR.
77% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Atlas Architect
A creative game where your imagination is your limit.
69% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Heliopedia
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets.
87% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
WorldMaker
WorldMaker is a tool for creative users that allows you to create photorealistic 3D Worlds using drag-and-drop controls.
73% of 106 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Space Crash Simulator
Real-time planetary collision sandbox powered by SPH physics: smash planets together and watch the destruction and its aftermath!
89% of 37 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Hidden gems like World Climate Lab
Earth Simulator
Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.
92% of 236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$4.99
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 948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
Terra Firma 2
Shape mountains, weather and plate tectonics, then let rivers and ecosystems unfold on their own.
92% of 231 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$19.99
Terra Firma
Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation.
93% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Observe
Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.
92% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$7.99
Canvas of Kings
Sketch the paths and plots, and watch hand-drawn houses, forests and walls fill in around them at your own pace.
93% of 839 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$18.99
Archean
Archean is a first-person engineering sandbox where physics does the judging.
87% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Fantasy Map Simulator
Draw a world, seed it with nations, and steer or simply observe as wars, alliances and dynasties shape its history.
89% of 4,263 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$7.99
Fantasy World Manager
Shape a living fantasy realm, then step back and watch heroes, factions and creatures carry on without you.
71% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$13.49
Heliopedia
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets.
87% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Spaceflight Simulator
Assemble rockets from real parts and take them from the launch pad to the far reaches of the Solar System, one failure at a time.
96% of 9,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 148$14.99
Imagine Earth
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade.
79% of 813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Newest games like World Climate Lab
Fantasy World Manager
Shape a living fantasy realm, then step back and watch heroes, factions and creatures carry on without you.
71% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$13.49
Absolute Sol
A physics sandbox of our Solar System. Fly the planets, change orbits, and watch Earth freeze, boil, or take a hit.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Cozy Country
Escape into Cozy Country, a peaceful fantasy landscape creator.
89% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Earth Simulator
Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.
92% of 236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$4.99
Terra Physics & Money
Explore a fully destructible procedural world made of millions of physics-driven blocks.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Skyformer
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones.
79% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Terraforming Titans
Balance a simulated climate, keep your colonists alive, and move on to stranger worlds when Mars is done.
95% of 75 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$5
Starsandisland Modkit
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive
Eden Crafters
Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.
84% of 2,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 351$19.99
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: 2$7.99
Lay of the Land
Mine, build and fight on an island where fire, water and physics reshape everything, alone or with friends.
80% of 1,244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$13.99
Gaia Maker
Gaia Maker is a planet-wide simulation game of terraforming, based on real physics and geology.
95% of 37 Steam reviews are positiveFree