Substrate: Emergence
90% positive of 32 Steam reviews
- Released
- 2026
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Platforms
- Steam
Made by Petri Dish Games LLC.
About the game
Grow fluorescent cell colonies in a living evolution sandbox. Guide mutations, breed new strains, and outcompete rival labs for territory. Every cell has its own genome, so no two experiments play out the same.
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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