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Games like Game of Life: Time

If Game of Life: Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grid Realm, Bridges & Docks and Alien Land — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Game of Life: Time: See the trajectory of Conway's Game of Life through time in a 3D perspective. Create cells, destroy cells, randomly generate cells, and observe the evolution of cell groups on the timeline!

2024IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDWindowsby Pixel Fox Games
Game of Life: Time — Steam game cover

Players who liked Game of Life: Time also play

Steam players who put hours into Game of Life: Time also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Grid Realm

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    A lightweight city-building game with LowPoly style. No complex management or resource systems here—just pure and simple building. Choose your favorite buildings and create your ideal city according to your preferences.

    2026SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Bridges & Docks

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    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!

    2024IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Alien Land

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    Bombing!! is a creative graffiti sandbox where every inch of the environment can be painted.

    2021IndieSimulationCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Atlas Architect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    A creative game where your imagination is your limit.

    2021SimulationCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Mini Zen Garden

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Please Fix The Road

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it's probably not hard to guess... you're fixing roads! Your road repair doesn't have to be beautiful, it just needs to get the job done! Your mom will like this game too!

    2022IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Awe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Game of Life: Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.

    2015IndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Game of Life: Time at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Game of Life: Time.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Game of Life: Time on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Game of Life: Time.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game of Life: Time.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game of Life: Time.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game of Life: Time.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game of Life: Time.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game of Life: Time.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Game of Life: Time

How much does Game of Life: Time cost?
Game of Life: Time is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Game of Life: Time?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Game of Life: Time are Grid Realm, Bridges & Docks, Alien Land.
Who developed Game of Life: Time?
Game of Life: Time was developed by Pixel Fox Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Game of Life: Time.

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