pan·gaia
pan·gaia is a whole-Earth sandbox fresh outta 1999. Sculpt your planet's climate, balance its ecology, design the perfect species for a niche, and maybe, lead them to sapience. Or... hurl meteors at them.
The top results based on the latest update are Mini Zen Garden [Score: 0.8], Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution [Score: 0.8] and Gridworld [Score: 0.7] The top rated games you can find here are Equilinox [SteamPeek Rating: 7.1] ranked #14, The Sapling [SteamPeek Rating: 6.7] ranked #13 and Reus [SteamPeek Rating: 6.1] ranked #18 Also don't forget to check the newest releases Terra Firma 2 [Release date: 2025-10-27] ranked #15, Proto-GO-a [Release date: 2025-10-08] ranked #22 and Planetary Life [Release date: 2025-08-15] ranked #16 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Sandboxels [SteamPeek Rating: 6.0] ranked #12, The Sapling [SteamPeek Rating: 6.7] ranked #13 and Equilinox [SteamPeek Rating: 7.1] ranked #14.
pan·gaia is a whole-Earth sandbox fresh outta 1999. Sculpt your planet's climate, balance its ecology, design the perfect species for a niche, and maybe, lead them to sapience. Or... hurl meteors at them.
Create your own mini zen garden in this calming sandbox game. Decorate your beautiful garden with a minimalistic set of objects. Share your garden with others, sit back, and relieve your day’s stress.
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.
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.
Woodland Empire is an anti-citybuilder; a natural take on the typical city building game. Instead of building roads and power lines, you'll control the wind, rain and sunlight to help your forest grow. Employ the help of woodland creatures to manage, upgrade and grow your empire.
Explore and create parametric creatures
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.
A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Create physics-based sea creatures and discover evolution through surprising challenges! Control, test, and share your creatures made with our flexible building system! Evolution is full of quirky surprises, can you be more creative than nature it self?
Transform barren land into a thriving ecosystem in this relaxing building game. Recycle trash, grow plants, and reintroduce wildlife to create a self-sustaining world.
Plentiful is a Human Terrarium — Sculpt the land, redirect rivers, and grow food as you nurture your tribe. Guide your people through a perilous Stone Age and protect them from nature’s whims.
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
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.
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
A simple black hole simulator.
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!
Design an ecosystem and watch your creatures evolve through millions of years by means of natural selection. See them fight for survival and produce offspring which share their genes… occasionally mutating to form monstrosities! What will your creature’s final-stage of evolution be?
Enter the world of tiny, virtual protozoa. Take control of one in free play to just explore or attempt to outlast another in a variety of custom boards. The controls are simple, but in the spirit of experimentation you'll have to figure them out on your own by playing...
An artificial life simulation about a robot cultivating ecosystems on the moons of a ruined planet. Grow fantastical plants and animals, facilitate their evolution, and gather resources while discovering the secrets of this strange world.
Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!
Equilibrium combines god-game, resource management, and planetary simulation. Minimise atmospheric pollutants, and keep global temperatures hospitable for human life. Or let dirty industry run rampant and produce a blazing hot tomb world. We're not your boss, it's up to you.
Welcome to Anima mundi! Build an ecosystem, populate your planet, & immerse in the lives of its creatures as they grow and evolve. Each planet holds unique species. Will you be able to uncover the mysteries of each one?
Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration. Unique gameplay for each species! Currently featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and other iconic creatures. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles coming soon!
MiniEco is a cozy top-down nature sim that combines laid-back idle gameplay, hands-on ecosystem management, and a hint of god-like power. Nurture or disrupt evolving species, shape their habitats, and watch as thousands of organisms adapt—or clash—in real time.
Free editor app to design plants for 🍀Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers🍀
Lawns are wild. Parks are buried in weeds. Streets are littered. The world needs a hero, and that’s where you come in. As the Landscaper, it’s your job to turn disorder into beauty. With your weed whacker, pressure washer, and trash vacuum, you’ll trim, scrub, and restore every space to perfection.
Take on the role of God and create your own world as you see it!
Build the island of your dreams - either by hand or using procedural generation tools. Create cozy islands while completing objectives to unlock new items & tools. Adjust the quantity of bridges, the maximum height of the terrain, and meticulously tweak configurations to create unique island worlds!
A cozy nature simulation meets card-based strategy.
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
Explore microscopic messengers of time inspired by micropaleontology and plankton research! Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology? Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!
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