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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!

Planetary Life is a early access, god game and sandbox game developed and published by Sotenbox.
Released on August 15th 2025 is available only on Windows.

It has received 515 reviews of which 483 were positive and 32 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Planetary Life into these genres:

Early Access God Game Sandbox Simulation Science Nature Procedural Generation Relaxing Management Life Sim Colony Sim Cute Resource Management Funny Family Friendly Education Atmospheric Space 3D Colorful

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: 2.8 GHz Dual Core or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

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Sept. 2025
This game is like SimEarth, SimLife, SimAnt, and Spore all rolled into one. Adding intelligence and civilizations would only make it better, and it's pretty good as-is. The cellular stage added a lot of depth, it's now possible to custom create all life - plants, organisms, and fungi, from the building blocks. Some of the explanation of how each cellular component contribute to the whole organism would be nice, but experimenting with all-mitochondria or whatever and seeing what happens is half the fun. Once you get a few plants and animals created, exporting them and importing them into a different planet and save is easy. Atmospheric composition is mostly "have enough oxygen for things to live" at this stage, but the framework appears there for a more complex implementation later on. As far as I can tell, animals must breathe oxygen, alternate metabolisms aren't possible. In the same theme, some evolutionary options aren't available until mouths or lungs evolve, making my dream of giant, filter-feeding flying mollusks just a dream for now. Overall, this is a great game, and I've found it well worth what I paid for it. I'm excited for future updates!
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Aug. 2025
10/10 game 50,000 years of evolution resulted in: 1. The entire archipelago of my planet being a battleground for that elephant thing from Eternal Cylinder and a legless air-breathing fish. 2. The south pole being filled with blind immobile skeleton-less filter feeding worms bigger than people. 3. A lizard with cat ears.
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Aug. 2025
This game rules. It's basically everything I wanted spore to be, to be honest. Just fantastic. Probably the best god game on the market right now, no exaggeration!!
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Aug. 2025
A lot of people will say this is like Spore, but to me it feels more like SimEarth with some Spore elements. Clearly the game was heavily inspired by both and it does a great job merging the concepts together. I'm incredibly excited to see where this game goes and what kind of updates we might get. This is the kind of game I've been waiting for for at least 15 years.
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Aug. 2025
I loved everything, especially how you can enter the cell-stage, what I don't exactly like is the predator and prey system. I feel like anything that is a herbivore with lower stats than a carnivore (or something like that) should try running away. It's really not great seeing predators just eat everything to extinction. Other than that great game! I'd love to see what happens in the updates and hope my suggestion gets taken into consideration development-wise.
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Planetary Life is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.

Planetary Life is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.79€ on Steam.

Planetary Life received 483 positive votes out of a total of 515 achieving a rating of 8.71.
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Planetary Life was developed and published by Sotenbox.

Planetary Life is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Planetary Life is not playable on MacOS.

Planetary Life is not playable on Linux.

Planetary Life is a single-player game.

Planetary Life does not currently offer any DLC.

Planetary Life does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Planetary Life does not support Steam Remote Play.

Planetary Life is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Planetary Life
11.79€ Visit Store
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Sotenbox
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Sotenbox
Release 15 Aug 2025
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