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Sap: School Days
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A whimsical single-player strategy-sim about planting biomes and machines on a grid to grow emergent stories, with very short early reviewer sessions (~6 min).

Growth
A cozy hexagonal-grid strategy game about exploring a procedurally generated world with animal abilities, balancing gentle exploration with challenging navigation.
2023-10-16
- Puzzle
- Strategy

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

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Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife

A relaxing garden-building sim where you restore a wasteland, attract wildlife, and design habitats, with a sometimes-frustrating auto-placement system.

2024-07-11

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
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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Terra Firma 2

A meditative god-game sandbox where sculpted terrain evolves under weather and erosion into living ecosystems.

2025-10-27

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox
Educational

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Planetary Life

A single-player planet and life sandbox sim about manipulating climate and evolving creatures from cells to civilizations, with a playful, experimental tone.

2025-08-15

First person
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Sandbox
Educational

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Fate Tectonics

A compact single-player strategy sim about building worlds piece by piece while managing the Fates' moods to avoid tantrums.

2015-09-09

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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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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Vilmonic

An open-ended artificial-life sandbox focused on breeding pixel-art life forms, crafting, and reshaping the environment, with a toy-like feel and about 6.5 hours of median reviewer playtime.

2018-11-05

Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

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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

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Pandora's Toybox

A roguelite god simulator where you guide a pixel-art civilization across a procedurally generated world, defending it from heretics in a playful, compact strategy loop.

2026-05-14

Strategy
Indie
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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WorldShaper Idle

A calming single-player tile-placement idler where you build worlds by experimenting with tile combos to boost production.

2026-05-18

Strategy
Indie