The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Very Positive
1,840 Steam reviews
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Only one creature outlived the others and it had divergent evolutions just to evolve into a carnivore to hunt the herbivores
fun
I liked that It is fun, What I didn't like is my animals always evolved into insects
so good
If Spore and Equilinox had a baby
its good
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Cool animals and stuff
Clear as mud. I've tried to get into this game multiple times and have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing by scenario 2. Googled it, searched the forums, searched the guides, searched Youtube, and none of the advice, even from the dev, makes any sense. And yet I have dozens of other evolution games way more complex than this that I play no problem. Also, I hate games that force you to play scenarios to unlock all the sandbox options. I bought an evolution sandbox to play in the evolution sandbox. I should be able to do exactly that when I want to. I'd learn the game ten times quicker if I could actually experiment on my own terms instead of being railroaded into some stupid puzzle games.
非常具有潛力的模擬進化類遊戲
開發者也很勤於跟玩家溝通，並試圖把許多生物特徵給放進來
目前關於生物本能的這一塊尚較為粗糙一些，以至於複雜本能像是有性生殖比較難以實現
建議剛入手的玩家先將自己設計的生物都設為無性繁殖
1. this game is only created by one person.
2. Don't let the simple graphics fool you.
3. it is fun to create documenterys on your little ecosystem
i like. its alright
i would recommend but i do have a common issue in sandbox that my aquatic creatures keep flying over land. its like 1% of the population but the creatures are so common that i see it
This game is pretty interesting and has a ton of potential—imagine Spore, but done with way more care and zero publisher meddling that crippled the original. In The Sapling, you actually get to build a whole planet: plants, animals for land, sea, and air. You can skip time, watch your species thrive or flop, and if they die out? Just hop back in the editor, tweak 'em, and give 'em a fighting chance. It's super satisfying experimentation early on.
I do recommend it, but honestly, only grab it on sale for now. At its current stage (early access as of 2026), it's got bugs, crashes a lot, framerates tank once too many species crowd the screen (though the organism cap in the ESC menu helps a ton), and it often freezes the longer you stay in a session. Optimization and graphical improvements would be huge for future updates—if the devs are reading this, please prioritize stability! The crashing and performance dips hit hardest for folks without a beast rig.
I'd love to see more animal parts, better customization options, part scaling/morphing, all that good stuff... but making the game more stable and crash-happy should come first so more people can actually play and enjoy the magic.
Otherwise, I love this game—even with its quirks. It has so much heart and potential; I hope to sink way more hours into it once it's smoother. Keep going, dev!
lags all the time
pretty fun game, but prone to crashes
Игра очень интересна. Но пожалуйста добавьте русский язык!!! Хоть какой ни будь.
It is very enjoyable if you're a person interested in evolution and biology...speaking about the game itself, it's very wide so to speak, as there's a lot of options of what to do every time you play (scenarios, daily challenge, etc)
definitivamente es un juego con mucho potencial pero tiene 3 problemas principales el primero las herramientas para moldear el mapa son muy incomodas de usar segundo esto puede que sea algo inprogramable pero los animales si bien si evolucionan son anatomicamente iguales me refiero a que son todos el mismo animal pero con una boca distinta o otra aletas pero escensialmente son lo mismo es como ese meme de un show mas del hechicero tierno que son todos el mismo personaje pero con distinta ropa y el tercero y mas importante el juego actualmente y desde hace ya algunos meses es completa y totalmente injugable ya que los animales simplemente no evolucionan pregunte en el discord oficial y dijeron que era un problema con la forma en la que el juego detecta a las criaturas pero sin importar el motivo el juego se trata de ver evolucionar a tus criaturas y si no evolucionan simplemente es injugable por la ultima razon no recomiendo paranada que lo compren pero si lo arreglara creo que seria un solido 8/10
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Short but honest review: It's not only a promising successor to Spore (2008) but it genuinely has GREATER potential. Don't let my first words diminish the fact that it has now established itself as its own amazing evolution game with its own fresh mechanics even in Early Access. In the first given scenario, you don't start on creating animals, you start on creating their food source. You have to factor in the quality of the environment to be able to create a species that can survive, then live, then thrive in it.
I'm still trying to grasp the basics of producing a functioning ecosystem, there's some trial and error as your species can go extinct if it cannot survive. It's extremely fun. Wessel Stoop please don't stop on The Sapling!
Even if it has some jank here and there, a lot of helpful features that could be implemented, I haven't experienced this level of wonder with any other currently developing evolution sim.
It was a really fun game
fun to wach
butiful game with active updates and a bunch of content
there arent games like this out there and its awesome
perfect evolution sim f0r my fellow nerds, animations and game mechanics are PERFECT
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1. make an ugly creature, 2. it survives no matter what, 3. your simulation is plauged with them and now no other creature can survive
every time i try to make a new species it either dies off in 100 years, or i can only place it in a very small area
Um jogo incrível, mas com alguns problemas, o jogo é bom e tem um propósito bom e que nunca vi em nenhum outro jogo, porém, é muito travado e ás vezes dá algumas travadas irritantes, além do fato que eu quando completei o primeiro cenário no jogo eu recebi a conquista que tinha completado todos os cenários quando completei apenas o primeiro, mas no geral é muito bom
Enjoyable
é muito bom, já joguei por 15 horas. mas não entendo porque não tem um the sapling demo.
This game has a long way to go before its on the level of spore. I think the main thing it needs a "test" run section in the animal creator so you can see how it moves before bringing it into the world.
aunque con bugs, este juego tiene mecanicas y ajustes increibles
The game is really fun but it crashes a lot.
fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bit glichy though
9/10 very good simulation game, the game runs well on my pc but i just wish i could take full advantage of my high end pc more, specifficaly by having adjustable entity rendering distances. other than that thought this is a very well thought out game with all of it's unique mechanics and it is very obvious that it was made by someone who actually cares about this game.
realy fun however if on a normal laptop would recomend low detail and small world
Please add a way for animals and other life to appear on it's own when there is an established ecosystem.
Tiene muchisimo por mejorar pero tiene potencial
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нету русского языка
Games basically dead
I'll edit this review if my opinion changes in the future, but the game has been in development since 2019 and I'm a bit surprised by how unpolished it remains. Of course, huge kudos to the dev for continuing to work on it, I think the devlogs are amazing, however I could not recommend the game in its current state at full price.
- The tutorials are confusing and tedious. For example: It's very easy to get stuck on the second one, because the leaf you have to evolve is out of view in the ui, and the arrow which you have to click to see it isn't very noticeable. They feel more like a challenge runs/puzzles and don't properly prepare you for sandbox mode.
- If the creatures you make keep dying out, good luck figuring out why. There is a system in place which will show you if a creature should be able to survive an environment, but there is, as far as I can tell, no way to know otherwise why a species didn't make it. Spamming different designs, without being able to figure out why they keep dying out gets frustrating after a while.
- The behaviours don't seem to work? I might be doing something wrong, but even if I keep them as simple as "if see food walk towards food", my creatures seem to survive way better without them.
- Large maps, once populated, become unplayable on laptop.
- However, playing on small maps to avoid poor performance introduces a layer of additional difficulty as your organisms are simply more likely to die out when there are fewer resources and less room to diversify.
- The game is still very buggy. Especially the camera.
- The creature bodyparts clip weirdly and some deform the body mesh. Similar problem with the plants, some leaves just clip out of the main body of the plant in a way that looks unintentional. Both feel like they should be an easy fix.
The game has potential and I really want to love it, but it's just kind of frustrating to play right now.
The game is genuinely less functional and significantly more janky now than it was 1 year ago.
great game and the owner listens to the community. i hope he keeps working on this game long term
Its a nice little sit back and watch as your creations do what they need to survive and reproduce
fun
my brother plays it alot and i cant play doom on our acount
i like being god.
Probably one of the best in the sporelike genre of games. It has a perfect balance of your own creations and the games twist on it. Highly recommend to anyone who has been searching for a fun evolution sim to chew on.
Games is really fun but im still trying to figure out what to do
good game
this game is fun i reccomend it to anyone who likes evolouton
Lots of bugs and crashing is common but has tons of potential
yes this is a good game but theres a new kingdom witch is the eukaryotic kingdom pls add this pls
PLAY IT YOU CAN MAKE AN AUTISTIC LIL CREATURE
I Like It Pacasso
im to dumb to under stand how to make the video game work cuss my things die really fast. not a bad game but i dont know how to play so thats why im putting a bad review.
[b]TL;DR[/b] [i]A praise-worthy attempt at trying to fill the gap Spore left vacant nearly 20 years ago, but still has a substantial way to go before it can be called Spore's successor. But hey, at least The Sapling DOES have the [b]potential[/b] to one day reach that level, and I sincerely hope it WILL reach the level of its own great potential, and not fall into mediocrity and obscurity. But only time will tell.[/i]
I've been waiting a long time for a successor to Spore to come around and do the formula right. For an indie game with no publisher's financial backing to be the one trying to tackle such a complicated concept may be foolish, but I do love an underdog going against incredible odds. And to its credit, there's a great foundation for that successor game. Unlike Spore's attempt (which was to just have the game be like five different genres put into one game, and have all of them be mediocre), The Sapling actually allows you to make not only animals, but plants/trees/algae/fungi, and have them all evolve passively over time. I said that Spore's problem was being an evolution game where you're always in control of it, and that it (ironically) needed to be more of a God game. The Sapling went that route, and it clicks for me in a way that Spore never, ever did for me.
However, while I think there's currently enough for me to lean on the Recommended side, there's also a number of things The Sapling needs to improve on during its Early Access period before I can give it a real, general recommendation.
1 - Trees need to be reworked. Trying to make big trees feels like you're having to actively fight the game. They use up so much energy - and leaves, while they generate energy, have a cap on how much energy they can produce. Sure, you can put 20 leaves on a tree, but anything after the first couple are just decoration. Plus, adding branches to a tree counter-intuitively results in more energy consumption, which the leaves don't compensate for due to the energy production cap! So tall trees with bark and branches are impossible. According to The Sapling, foliage like Southern Live Oaks simply cannot exist. Hell, I'd say most trees IRL can't exist by The Sapling's laws.
2 - There needs to be a clean-up function for trees and creatures. For example, say you make a plant. You hit okay, go to place it in the game and, uh-oh, there's nowhere on the map where it can survive. So you click the "redesign" button, make some changes, go back to the game, and now you can place it. Unfortunately, the original plant that can't survive is still in your list of plants (along with the redesign). You cannot delete it (you can make them extinct, but they don't disappear from the list); it is in that world forever it seems. Same is true of animals. I hate that you're stuck having to sift through a bunch of fauna and foliage you made eons ago and never even placed in the world but can't get rid of them. There really needs to be a way to remove previously made objects if there are no living members of that species.
3 - The world editor needs an overhaul. Building the world is a chore, and is unintuitive in a way that is hard to succinctly explain in text ... but once you try and use it, you're going to say, "Wow, this might be the worst terrain editors in a game." Another thing that needs to be added is [strike]the ability to place groundwater and soil softness manually. It's dumb when you've struggled to make your world, only to realize your mountains aren't rocky, and your swamp area that's partially underwater has no groundwater - all because that's where the game automatically placed those things.[/strike] [b]UPDATE:[/b] [i]There actually IS a way to manually control those, the game just doesn't tell you it has that feature. Although I stand by my feelings that the game could be more clear about it, I also concede that I should have been able to intuit it how to use that feature, so I'll chalk this one as at least partially my fault for not realizing it was there.[/i]
4 - The plant and animal design feature needs a MAJOR overhaul. Now look, to expect a tiny indie game like this to have the same level of polish and production value as Spore is utter foolishness and not based in reality. The fact that the dev(s) have made this game in the first place is truly a noteworthy feat (this ain't some Flappy Bird clone or cheap Unity asset flip; making an evolution simulator is not for the faint of heart) and the fact that it *can* be kinda fun (in a zen garden way) is a remarkable accomplishment.
But with that being said, even understanding the limitations the dev(s) have here and understanding that this is still in Early Access, it's still very hard not to compare and contrast making an animal in The Sapling vs in Spore.
If you've never played Spore, you'll still notice how ugly the actual main body of the creature looks due to the low polygon count; how the mouth you add very rarely looks like its a natural part of the creature; how every part and piece must be connected to an individual body segment or at various specific attachment points, and the difficulty of trying to put all the parts together in a way that looks pleasing due to the attachment point limitation; how the ugly color pallet makes vibrant colors impossible, and the lack of cosmetic customization with patterns and skin/fur style really limits how unique an animal can be.
However, if you've never played Spore but then play it after The Sapling, I guarantee that your immediate reaction will be, "OHHhhhh, so THIS is what the creature designer in The Sapling is supposed to be like!" Once you get a feel for the wide-ranging, freeform and seemingly limitless customization features Spore offers, the limitation of The Sapling's editor be obvious and woefully constricting to your imagination.
And the great irony is that I think The Sapling has more options in terms of mouths and limbs you can choose, but the constraints removes the benefit that variety provides.
5 - There needs to be far more documentation and explanation of how animals actually function. There's a tutorial that "teaches" you how to make asexually reproducing animals without much guidance (which I'm not against), but it doesn't teach you how the mechanics of sexual reproduction works. (Yes, I know what the obvious joke there is at my expense, but once you play the game you'll understand what I mean.) I don't think I've ever gotten animals to reproduce that way - if so, maybe once.
But more than that, maybe it's me and I'm just really dumb, but my animals keep going extinct. They'll be fine for a bit, they'll eat, wander around ... and then they'll just keel over. At best, I occasionally get a message saying it's due to "lack of energy". What does that mean? Why did that happen? What did I make wrong about their biology that caused this lack of energy? Your guess is as good as mine. But then, I'll make an animal in the same way I would the others, and they'll reproduce like rabbits ... and then the creature I make to hunt them and thin the herds end up going extinct from not eating...???
Sure, it's possible I'm just an idiot and I'm missing the large print out that explains in detail what I'm doing wrong, but if it's there, I wish they did a better job of pointing me where that print out is.
6 - One of the worst and unintuitive saving systems that I've seen in a game. I've never seen anything like it, and I don't mean that in a good way. They coded a functioning evolutionary system, but couldn't make a standard sensible save screen like has existed in PC games for over 30 years now???
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There's a valiant and praise-worthy attempt here to make something that could be really awesome ... but this game still needs a lot more time in the oven before it can be considered a worthy (and legitimate) successor to Spore.
very entertaining
good
I love games like this, but for this kind, it is surely not one of the best of its kind.
The new updates just make the game crash more, and the optimization is simply horrible. The evolution depicted is sad and pretty unrealistic. To be precise: I have a total of specs that make my PC cost over 2000 euros, I have an RTX 4090 and 10 CPUs, but even with these specs, the game feels slow and has insanely long loading times, apart from every single bug that occures. The controles are awful, the recent land creation tool is terrible, and the evolution itself depicted in an unprecise and destrective way is the cherry on top.
This game is honestly not fun to play, even tough I have a considerable amount of hours in it because of the hope in new updates and the mission to play. This game is not worth the money. For a game like this in the development process, I'd pay not even 5 euros.
Listen here, Wessel, creator of this game: before creating a game, learn to program in a decent way! If you want to create a game that's enjoyable, you'll need a great team of people. This is not a game to develop alone.
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though im still learning the newest update, but out of every game i could be playing i would rather play the sapling :)
After some updates stuff doesnt evolve anymore in the freaking evulution sim
Der neue Sandbox Map-Editor ist eine Katastrophe.
Unter dem alten Sandbox System wurden wir bessere Planten generiert als jetzt.
Es ist nicht möglich einen Planten generieren zu lassen, der halbwegs Tiefe Ozeane und Kontienente OBERHALB der Wasserlinie hat.
Ich kann diese selber zeichnen aber diese Planeten sahen bisher immer aus wie Augenkrebs.
Viel zu kantig keine flüssigen Übergänge in der Ozeantiefe, Kontinente meist flaches Land. Beim versuch Berge zu erstellen bekommt man eher Säulen.
Es fühlt sich alles zu ungenau an.
Lasse ich den Generator die Kontinente erstellen kann ich nur ALLES random generieren lassen. Wieso kann ich nicht wie vorher bestimmte Parameter vor einstellen und darum den Generator generieren lassen?
Die Sandbox war für mich der größte Spass an dem Spiel.
Diese ist jetzt aber total kaputt für mich, mit dem letzten Update.
Ich habe keine Lust eine Stunde einen Planeten zu erstellen mit dem ich dann, wenn ins Spiel geladen doch nicht zufrieden bin.
Dieses Problem hatte ich vorher nicht.
Carnivore eat more animal but no carnivore plant exist
very fun to just sit and watch how my little ball creature evolves. the updates have been consistent and i cant wait to see what new things well get in the future!
Great game, and it gets better all of the time.
If you want me to say something about the game except funny creauteres go change and be funny and i love it, then uhhh go watch the devlogs instead. My only problem is whenenver I open a new display area (animal/fungi/plant editor or the actual enviroment) I have a black screen for acouple of minutes.
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rlly fun and good, would like more animal/plant parts and more customisble worlds however. still 10/10 however.
I've only played this game for five hours, and I was really expecting to enjoy it, based off of what I've seen in the youtube videos. But the game is so horribly glitchy that it is simply not worth it's 18 dollar price tag. Mechanics wise sure, I can imagine 18 dollars being worth it, assuming the game wasn't so bug ridden.
The UI is the worst offender, a lot of it ends up bugging out half of the time (for example, in the creature list in Sandbox, I keep getting "1/0" page texts, completely empty pages, and pages that don't update the page count, etc)
And in the Clade graph/viewer there is literally always a completely empty page at the end and scrolling through that UI is horribly unintuitive. And sometimes the creatures would completely visually freeze and only start moving again when I hit the play button.
Some editors have a discard button while others don't, there's no way of deciding against placing a creature/plant/fungus/etc without entering its editor and hitting discard, sometimes just you clicking the discard button would cause the game to think you placed something down, hence causing it to clog certain UI menus with creations you never even placed down.
One time all the UI except for the pause menu just stopped working completely (the black background disappeared and my clicks went through the UI) and I had to reload in order to fix it.
The game has a timeskip feature which lets you skip forward in time, which is awesome, but also, since you for some reason can't jump instantly to a creature's information panel from clicking them, you have to go through the creature list and find it, and that is also assuming you CAN find it and it doesn't go extinct during that brief time between switching menus, AND assuming you have the patience to look through the list as there is no search function for who knows why.
The editor is one of the worst sporelike editors I've ever had to use, primarily because placing parts is extremely finnicky, sometimes I've gotten that subplacement menu to appear on a completely different part of the creature while the actual part is placed in a different spot, many times I was just completely unable to select the eyes without removing the mouth first. The terrain editor suffers from the same problem of not being able to click certain mountains because a much bigger land mass is in the way. Speaking of terrain, there are no presets so you have to just keep hitting randomize until you get an actually inhabitable world, or make one yourself from scratch which somes with its own problems when you just want to see things evolve. Speaking of evolution, it's unreasonably difficult to get anything to actually evolve onto land starting from the sea, even if you search for the best possible planet and already make creatures that are halfway there.
And, do yourself a favor and do not play the Scenario mode. Just. Do not play it. Trust me on this one, it only takes you getting distracted for about half a second for something to go extinct, and you not being able to progress anymore due to the absolutely horrible unlock system. Seriously it's clear that the scenarios were not made with it in mind and it was added later (Which, it was)
This game is good, eventually, at points. But it is not worth 18 dollars, not right now.
This game is very cool, however it can be very laggy at some times
Not much to do at the moment, gameplay is quite boring. I understand it is in early access however, so perhaps come back after it fully releases.
Tiene una cantidad de bugs extraordinaria , le falta ser pulido y hay mecanicas incompletas que no encajan bien con el juego, como la de diseñar el planeta. hay partes del editor que en la evolucion aleatoria casi nunca las usa. en varias partidas me ha pasado que al abrirlo por el año 5000 no me deja y se congela en negro sin posibilidad de entrar, el juego en 3 años es basicamente el mismo con algunos cambios , pienso que aunque es duro se pudiera haber trabajado mucho mas al igual que arreglado bugs despues de sacar las actualizaciones grandes, ademas de eso la idea del juego me parece perfecta al igual que su banda sonora y alguna cosa mas
awesome
amei
i rlly enjoy this game and when you put one organism in and see it become hundreds its quite nice
sometimes though (cause i play in a laptop from years ago) it can get very laggy when u have been in the same world for a thousand years
A game with great potential made by one guy who touches grass a lot!
this is game really bad there is so much variety and yet everything evolves into the same meta body plan with like 4 body parts. And you cant play for more than 1000 years in game before the game starts lagging or crashing. I want to like this game but is not good right now
I love this game i just think the planets are too small and should be bigger
I really want to like this game but there's several issues.
Most people already mentioned the lagging and crashes so I won't regurgitate.
At the moment it's not possible to make a tree that lets birds sit on them, because trees are too big and can't generate enough energy for some reason. Due to this you never see birds evolve, which sucks.
The creature designer is too restrictive, it's very hard to give something eyes, ears and horns without making their heads way bigger. Horns don't really diversify much either, they just stay pretty much the same.
For some reason the species only stays in their own groups and rarely intermingle, becasue of this it's mostly herbivores or omnivores and carnivores will just go extinct, leading to overpopulation and contribution to the lag. You pretty much have to drop a meteorite or manually delete the creatures just to fix it.
Marine life doesn't change much either. Despite all the different parts, most sea creatures will just end up the same with only different eyes. Overpopulation also happens frequently underwater, where it's just nothing but sea creatures crowding around with barely any space. Algae might need to be changed so it provides less energy.
The game lag so much because of frequent overpopulation of animals and plants, yet there's very little diversity to make an actual ecosystem. Birds don't exist, everything looks the same and the crashing and freezing really kills it for me.
Edit: by everything looking the same I meant the game being only able to load the models of the most populous species.
this is the best game ever!!1!
I'm giving it a positive review because I want to see the game succeed, but the amount of bugs and performance issues with nearly every aspect at the moment is extremely disappointing.
The camera is a hassle to use, saves have issues loading properly, the UI for so many screens glitches.
the best
i love this
cute creatures (they will die in a mass extinction event)
awesome
unable to make a stable ecosystem, plus the controls are very janky
The camera controls are horrible. I do not need to go in depth, everyone knows how strange the movement system is, especially how clunky, sticky, and laggy it is.
I really, really wish I could love and recommend this game, but at the moment I simply cant.
The "evolution sim" part just takes such an insane back seat to the gamifying part. The map is far, far too small to even think about having any kind of stable ecosystem. Creatures just bounce between a few different body parts randomly until one single species takes over absolutely everything, basically forever, but you would never even see that part of it since the game has such a hard time actually loading any models of creatures besides a few of the most populous ones.
Creature cant eat one of the few food types? Easy, it'll just grow a second head because that always works in nature. Every limb just swaps between the others until it soft locks itself into the bottom of the hard coded limb tree. Then suddenly you have a "best" creature that will dominate any and every situation because so many parts do so many of the exact same things leaving no room for smaller niches or areas to specialize into. Fruit isn't just "fruit," same with nuts, mushrooms, etc. It doesn't matter what those things look like, it's what they are made of that force creatures IRL to specialize to eat those things. Digestion is such a massive part of evolution but just isn't even thought about. It's simply "you can now eat x,y, and z!" in the game.
The instincts for how a creature acts are incredibly simplistic and limited. See X then walk away... somewhere i guess. Feel Y hormone and "cry?" Whatever crying means, because as we all know creatures IRL only have one sound they can make that means everything. It's like these were all just an afterthought because someone watched a couple videos, threw them in, and said "Yep! That'll just work itself out as long as they're there!" Plus there are only like 8? slots for having instincts, so if you try to create anything mildly complex you are just shut out once you reach the low limit.
I have come back to this "sim" time and time again trying to be excited about new updates only to find that the game crashes and has to reload itself over and over again and you just cant run anything even remotely long term. The small details of realistic evolution take the farthest back seat possible and instead its just all big picture ideas of what evolution almost sorta kinda resembles. The small "insignificant" details ARE what evolution is, and are anything but insignificant. The more they are ignored the more the game will just suffer. You can't just hard code stats into a bunch of stuff, because that's how you get a pre-defined meta. There's no room for the little evolutionary arms races that happen, it just goes from "bad -> good -> best possible combination"
There can be fun moments, and I know that a crazy amount of hard work has gone into this game, and adding a lot of stuff isn't easy by any means. But if you want to just make a Spore lookalike game then make a regular game. If you want to make an actual simulator of the things that the devlog videos and such allude to, you cant just stop at the big picture ideas and call it good enough. I really have high hopes that this game will take a turn for the better, but I'm just not seeing it on the near horizon.
All in all, the game needs to really go hard into optimizing its own performance and actually making it playable, and then it needs to focus on real details. Right now it just feels like everything important gets glossed over to add in more hard coded structures, then more hard coded structures, then the game breaks, then halfway fix some of the issues and add more more more.
Это самая лучшая игра для создания экосистемы! Из минусов этой игры могу выделить только проблематичность создания планеты-карты для песочного режима, типа, как пример, не показана максимальная и минимальная глубина океанов в редакторе планеты для песочного режима и так далее по характеристикам планеты, но это может быть и мои незнания об создании планеты в редакторе. Но так как это единственная игра подобного жанра, где можно создать экосистему, она для меня лучшая!
Fullscreen on an ultrawide renders the UI incorrectly making the first scenario and the game as a whole unplayable. When i load the game in windowed mode the game freezes.
RTX 4090
7900X3D
64 GB RAM
W11
Starting a new game in windowed mode at least allowed the game to be playable. Will test and see if i am able to load and play a save from a windowed mode game.
its amazing
I don't like it. Every animal I make goes extinct! I cannot keep them alive. They never find food! Please fix this. NOW!!
i feel like a god when i play this
it has some bug here and there, but it is a great game, i have to give it a thumbs up!
Fun, and lots of potential. Very excited to see where this game goes.
