Planetary Life

94% positive of 930 Steam reviews

Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Sotenbox.

About the game

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!

Tagged by players

God Game
Science
Colony Sim
Life Sim
Nature
Procedural Generation
Sandbox
Management
Resource Management
Relaxing
Space
Cute

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Planetary Life

94% positive of 930 Steam reviews

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Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Sotenbox.

About the game

Tagged by players

God Game
Science
Colony Sim
Life Sim
Nature
Procedural Generation
Sandbox
Management
Resource Management
Relaxing
Space
Cute

What players say

Recommended
I’m fucking recommending this game. Easily. The best part of Planetary Life is honestly just watching life evolve. You can start with one tiny blob, fungus, plant, whatever, fast forward a few hundred years, and suddenly the population has doubled or tripled depending entirely on the environment you made. That’s what makes it cool. You can have a hot-ass planet where life barely survives, or an ice planet with one…
14 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.
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Recommended
The game is completely fine, but I feel like devlogs should be more habitual, I am not asking an update to the game every month, but at least know what's going on, last devlog was almost 2 months ago, and the one before that also almost 2 months, it's not much to ask for a monthly report of what's going on even if the update takes like 4 months to come into effect. (TLDR: Just more devlogs)
4.5 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I enjoy this game, but I feel like it lacks major depth and optimization. As someone who just finished taking an astronomy class, some of the features within the game have missed opportunities that I would love to see. First off, I believe there needs to be major expansions to the planet generation, creature generation/ecosystem interactions, and star generation. The creatures don't feel that interesting to me.…
15 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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