Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is a simulation, sandbox and early access game developed and published by Quasar.
Released on September 28th 2018 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 958 reviews of which 716 were positive and 242 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution into these genres:

Simulation Sandbox Early Access Science God Game Experimental Indie Real-Time with Pause Singleplayer Relaxing Management Strategy Real-Time Education Psychological Horror Open World Realistic

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista or higher
  • Processor: 2 GHz processor
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Shader Model 3.0

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2026
I have mixed feelings about Species: ALRE. On the hand, I do love this janky little evolution simulator and have put over 200 hours into it. Messing with the landscape, experimenting with parameters such as global and regional temperature, seasons, fertility, gravity and so on, to see the what kind of weird, wonderful and sometimes downright silly creatures would evolve, or what effects a change in environment has on your existing creatures. It can be quite an interesting and relaxing time, when the game works as intended. On the other hand, this game was clearly never finished and it shows. It's a bit fiddly and janky, as worlds become increasingly unstable over longer periods of time, resulting in an increasing amount of fairly regular crashes and unexplainable extinctions, among other things. This can absolutely ruin the fun you were having with your simulations, and I've had to abandon a number of simulations that had been running for several full days because of constant crashes and general instability. Species: ALRE can absolutely be fun if you're into evolution simulators, but I'd recommend only picking this up on sale, because it's frankly abandonware and not worth it all full price.
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Nov. 2025
Love the game, come back to it occasionally while listening to Evolution podcasts or shows. Creator of this game, we miss you! Hope everything is going well in your world.
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Sept. 2025
The game is dead the website is down for 3 years great game and cool concept tho it just needs updates.
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Aug. 2025
This game is beautiful. I wish the dev was suddenly overcome by the joy of a thousand supernovas, or whichever celestial object would make the biggest explosion the universe could take. Never to fade away. For this creation is worth that in my eyes.
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June 2025
my animals are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and ugly i hate them. dev if you ever update this can you add a function to the rovers where you can make them feed the animals sand just to be mean (i love my abominations even if theyre yucky <3)
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Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.79€ on Steam.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution received 716 positive votes out of a total of 958 achieving a rating of 7.16.
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Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution was developed and published by Quasar.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is a single-player game.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution does not currently offer any DLC.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution does not support Steam Remote Play.

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution 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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Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
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Release 28 Sep 2018
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