Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated.
53% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$0.76
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Looking for that same relaxing and atmospheric spark as XenoBloom? These games are worth a look next.
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.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric, Replayable
93% of 2,608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99The 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, Replayable, Cute
88% of 1,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$17.99Distant Bloom
From a world in ruins to a world in bloom. This serene management game lets you explore an alien planet where things have gone amiss. Harness the power of plants to restore the environment and build a flourishing community with your crewmates.
Also in Cozy and Farming · Relaxing, Atmospheric, Colorful
72% of 247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99Earthtongue
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.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric, Minimalist
90% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$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, Colorful
94% of 949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99Creatura
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.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
67% of 219 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Cloud Gardens
A quiet puzzle toy about letting nature win. Plant seeds in little scenes of urban decay, scatter junk around them so the greenery spreads, and watch a rusted ruin turn into an overgrown garden. No timers, no failure, just the slow pleasure of making something beautiful out of what people left behind.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric, Replayable
95% of 2,104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99Thrive
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, Minimalist, Replayable
92% of 1,726 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$4.99Intelligent 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.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
53% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$0.76BioEden
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 soil, then raise dozens of cute animals inside your dome until they can return to the wild. No fail states, just quiet progress.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric, Colorful
73% of 114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$21.99Birthdays 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!
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
63% of 903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers
Cultivate unique gardens, timelapse seeds to blooming orchards in seconds, design procedurally generated plants, nurture ecosystems and discover rare genetic traits in wild flora, to create ultimate species, in state-of-the-art botanical simulation.
Relaxing, Replayable
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Cheaper than XenoBloom
Small Living World
An ecosystem simulation running in your hands. Transform a desertic world into a lush forest. No stress, play at your own pace.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Tyto Ecology
Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems.
75% of 416 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Plankton
Minimalist style game : plankton simulation, an electronic pet generated by math codes. Under your care it will slowly grow up and evolve.
76% of 82 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Gridworld
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger…
85% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Plantera
Plant crops, trees and animals in a hand-drawn little farm, let round blue helpers do the picking, and pop the odd rabbit or wolf with a boot.
88% of 4,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99
Qbio
This is a very cute real-time economic strategy game. Grow plants, level up, unlock new buildings.
71% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Space Garden
In "The Space Garden" you can build your own garden across the Universe! Discover, acquire and grow your plants with love as you watch them evolve.
30% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Desk Garden
A tiny garden that lives on your desktop. Buy plots, plant mystery seeds and watch shy sprouts and chatty humanoid blossoms grow while you work or…
84% of 481 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$2.99
Treeplanter: Plant real trees🌲
🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree!
96% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Fantasy Gardens
This is a relaxed plant simulation game. The adjustment parameters can simulate the ever-changing plant growth state.
67% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
GeneBloom
A cozy plant-breeding tycoon where you grow and sell genetically unique flowers while managing a thriving greenhouse.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like XenoBloom
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 949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
Blossom: The Seed of Life
Terraform a dead planet at your own pace, turning red dust into soil where the first plants can take root, alone or with a friend.
87% of 1,066 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$16.99
PolyPine
Plant a few seeds, watch a living woodland take shape, and gently nudge the animals that call it home.
95% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$8.99
Preserve
Place plants, water and animals to build living biomes, at your own pace and with no pressure at all.
92% of 705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.49
Mycelarium
Flick your mycelium through the soil, tap hidden water and unlock strange mutations at your own pace.
82% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 335$4.99
Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife
Summoned by gnomes to revive a lost garden, you lay soil and ponds, plant vegetables, and shape habitats that tempt in frogs, foxes, capybaras and…
88% of 395 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$12.49
The Wandering Village
A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu.
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$29.99
Growth
Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of…
90% of 221 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Wildmender
Bring a dried-up world back to life, one canal and one strange plant at a time, alone or with friends.
85% of 1,812 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$8.49
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…
73% of 114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$21.99
Ecosystem
Seed a simulated ocean with random creatures and watch evolution do the rest.
76% of 611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Newest games like XenoBloom
Mycelarium
Flick your mycelium through the soil, tap hidden water and unlock strange mutations at your own pace.
82% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 335$4.99
Bloom
A puzzle-platformer about an innocent, curious being exploring the planets of Bloom, planting seeds and sprouting flowers with its song. Sing!
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positiveFree
BloomKeeper
Bring life back to a world in ashes by guiding the Pouics, solo or in co-op, through a real-time tactical adventure where every region you save must…
87% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Honeycomb: The World Beyond
Scan strange plants, crossbreed creatures and raise a base on Sota7, a planet that hides a mystery worth your patience.
68% of 237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$29.99
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…
73% of 114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$21.99
Mycelium Conquest
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet.
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Drop and Grow
A short incremental clicker about growing plants by dropping water. Sit back and relax while you restore nature.
91% of 143 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
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 88 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
Petal by Petal
Petal by Petal is a relaxing incremental gardening game where mindful movements are rewarded.
91% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Blossom: The Seed of Life
Terraform a dead planet at your own pace, turning red dust into soil where the first plants can take root, alone or with a friend.
87% of 1,066 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$16.99
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 949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
The Wandering Village
A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu.
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$29.99