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Terraform a barren planet, seed and design life, then tune its environment and watch species evolve or go extinct.
Released 15 Aug 2025
Terraform a Bare Planet
Build Life from Cells
Steer Climate and Terrain
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!
Developed by Sotenbox · Published by Sotenbox
In this planet sandbox, you shape an uninhabited world into a habitat for life. Change its terrain, seas, core heat, volcanic activity, atmosphere, and climate using the available planetary tools.
Create life by combining cell types or introduce plants, fungi, and creatures directly. Design organisms and adjust their traits, then guide their development—or leave them to mutate and evolve under the conditions you set.
Build and maintain ecosystems as species compete, spread, and sometimes die out. You can fast-forward to observe changes over time and walk across your planet in first person to see its inhabitants up close. Civilization gameplay is not currently available.
Players who enjoy Planetary Life often praise watching populations change over time, especially when they have shaped a world’s climate and terrain and can see how life responds. Reviews also value the choice between actively editing organisms and planetary conditions or letting the simulation run, as well as the room to experiment with unusual worlds and life forms. Some players find the evolution unpredictable or the current range of activities limited.
From an uninhabited planet in space to an ecosystem full of life.
In Planetary Life you will be able to shape a planet in the purest Sandbox Simulation style, playing with its mountains, seas and even its climate, to create the perfect habitat to harbor life.
Control a planet with the multiple tools available. Let the tectonic plates shape the mountains and seas, modify the climate, the heat of the nucleus, the volcanic activity, the gases of the atmosphere, etc... until shaping the home of your creatures.
Add creatures and evolve them from simple organisms to intelligent beings. Design and expand them looking for the balance of a perfect ecosystem.
Help them or let them fight for survival on their own.
Create new life forms combining different types of cells. From single cells and multicellular life, to macroscopic creatures and plants.
Change core heat and volcanic activity to shape your planet terrain through volcanoes.
Manipulate rainfalls, cloud and surface albedo to change the climate.
Build ecosystems. Maintain the balance between fauna and flora. Do not let them break the harmony and avoid the extinction of species.
You can walk around and see from a first-person point of view your planet and your creations.
When your creatures reach sufficient intelligence they will organize themselves into tribes and later flourish into civilizations. Manage and help them in the battle for technology to conquer the planet.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 22 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
