Games like EcoGenesis
EcoGenesis is a 2D black-box ecosystem simulator where you need to craft an ecosystem that can withstand the test of time. You must unlock creatures and balance your environment while driving towards one of the three victory conditions in this turn-based simulation.

Top 12 games similar to EcoGenesis
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Tyto Ecology
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!
CasualIndieSimulation - 2

Reus
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.
IndieSimulationStrategy - 3

Villa's Blinds
Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!
CasualIndieSimulation - 4

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!
CasualIndieSimulation - 5

Terra Firma 2
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.
Early AccessIndieSimulation - 6

Planetary Life
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!
Early AccessIndieSimulation - 7

Sandboxels
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
CasualIndieSimulation - 8

SPORE™
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
ActionAdventureCasual - 9

Vilmonic
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
AdventureCasualIndie - 10

Prehistoric Kingdom
Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.
Early AccessIndieSimulation - 11

Wildlife Park 2 - Dino World
Exciting and thrilling dinosaur-extension for the Wildlife Park univers with 11 different dinosaurs in 9 new missions.
CasualIndieSimulation - 12

Crest - an indirect god sim
Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
CasualIndieSimulation
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