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Games like Ecosystem

Games like Ecosystem

A relaxed underwater sandbox about guiding creatures through an emergent evolution simulation, with a loose, experimental feel and dozens of hours of play.

Equilinox
A relaxing nature sim about shaping ecosystems, balancing species, and evolving wildlife, with roughly 15 hours of sandbox play for reviewers.
2018-11-23
- Strategy
- Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

Sandbox

Point-and-click

Educational

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ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution

A relaxing single-player evolution sandbox where AI block creatures develop quirky, physics-driven movements.

2026-02-11

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Aquarist

A relaxing single-player sandbox sim about building and managing aquariums, with satisfying fish-care and decorating, lasting roughly 17-30 hours for reviewers.

2024-03-29

Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Educational

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Aquarium Designer

A casual single-player simulation where you design, build, and stock custom aquariums to order, offering a short, relaxing job-sim experience (median reviewer playtime ~4 hours).

2021-10-21

Third person
Indie
Simulator

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Sipho

A single-player underwater action-survival game about evolving a creature to take over an ecosystem, with adventure and sandbox modes.

2023-09-30

Action
Science fiction
Survival
Strategy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Megaquarium

A cozy public-aquarium sim that mixes tank design, fish care, staff and economy management, and guest satisfaction, with a puzzle-like feel and modding community.

2018-09-13

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Business
Sandbox

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Life Below

A single-player underwater city-builder about restoring coral reefs through resource management and research, offering a relaxing yet occasionally tricky campaign of around 18 hours.

2026-05-26

Strategy
Fantasy
Simulator

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Creatura

A single-player evolution sandbox where you gene-edit and breed microorganisms into unique aquarium/terrarium lifeforms, with deep but poorly explained systems.

2021-03-31

Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Earthtongue

A gentle single-player sim of tending a strange miniature ecosystem of fungi and bugs, where limited influence and balance management unfold over roughly 7 hours.

2015-04-27

Science fiction
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

An open-ended single-player simulation sandbox where you can tinker with DNA or watch evolution unfold.

2017-05-12

Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Microcosmum: survival of cells

A casual action-strategy game about surviving as a single-celled organism in a microscopic world, with light RPG progression and a roughly 8-hour playtime.

2015-07-24

Action
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Birthdays the Beginning

A quirky, open-ended world-creation sandbox where you shape terrain and climate to evolve prehistoric life, with reviewers logging roughly 40 hours.

2017-05-09

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Open world
Sandbox