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- $11.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Verified
- 2025
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The closest matches to Ecosystem: Planetary Life, The Sapling, Creatura, Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution, and Thrive. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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- Released: 2024
- Developer: Tom Johnson
- Price: $19.99checked Nov 4
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 78% of 472 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Casual
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Build and balance custom ecosystems
- Creative freedom in species design
- Design creatures with neural networks
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Contemplative
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Why this: Shares ecosystem simulation with Ecosystem.
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Why this: Shares ecosystem simulation and resource management with Ecosystem.
About Ecosystem
The closest matches to Ecosystem: Planetary Life, The Sapling, Creatura, Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution, and Thrive. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Ecosystem is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planetary Life, The Sapling and Creatura — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and contemplative, and single out its ecosystem simulation and neural network driven evolution. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Ecosystem: 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!
Is Ecosystem worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 78% of 472 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $19.99 (checked Nov 9).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 12 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 11 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Build and balance custom ecosystems
- Creative freedom in species design
- Design creatures with neural networks
- Emergent combat and predation behaviors
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“It started out with a really promising concept, but once you jump into the game it quickly deteriorates. The controls are abysmal, there's no gameplay loop at all. The game really just has no point, and I usually love sandbox games.”
“The mechanics of this game are amazing and engaging for me, but it's actually impossible for me to load my saves. It takes a very, very long time just for the tiniest bit of loading progress. I literally finished an entire Better Call Saul…”
People who play it also play: Planetary Life, The Sapling, Creatura
Frequently asked about Ecosystem
Can I run it?
Does Ecosystem run on Steam Deck?
Ecosystem is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Ecosystem cost?
Ecosystem is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Ecosystem?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ecosystem are Planetary Life, The Sapling, Creatura.
Who developed Ecosystem?
Ecosystem was developed by Tom Johnson and published by Slug Disco.