Substrate: Emergence
89% positive of 28 Steam reviews
- Released
- 2026
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Platforms
- Steam
Made by Petri Dish Games LLC.
About the game
Grow colonies of fluorescent cells that mutate, swarm, and devour each other in a petri dish arena. Propagate a unique biology of your own as you compete against rival labs in a detailed artificial life simulation.
Tagged by players
- God Game
- Colony Sim
- Science
- Creature Collector
- RTS
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sandbox
- Roguelite
- Crafting
- Procedural Generation
- Nature
- Management
What players say
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