Earth Simulator

Earth Simulator is a god game in which you shape a planet, guide civilizations and follow humanity’s history. You can create continents and change the climate, winds, ocean currents, sunlight and CO₂, then settle the world with people and watch tribes grow into nations and cities. Start from scratch or use a version of Earth built from real elevation and climate data. You can also leave the map and explore its cities in first person, talk to inhabitants and join wars.

Shape the planet

Raise islands and mountain ranges with a brush, steer winds and currents, and change sea levels. Your actions have consequences: moving mountains can redirect rain and turn forests into steppe or deserts, while melting polar caps can flood coastal cities.

You can aid civilizations with rain, blessings and inspiration, or challenge them with volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, meteors, plagues and droughts. The natural world includes more than 35 animal species linked by food chains. Grazers follow pasture, predators hunt them, and people hunt and tame animals; if grazers disappear, predators lose their food source.

Guide history

Lead humanity through eight eras and more than 50 discoveries, from the first campfire to spaceships. Tribes become nations and villages grow into cities, whose appearance changes as the eras advance.

Peoples name their lands and seas, retain their cultures and faiths, make alliances, wage wars, introduce reforms and experience revolutions. Each nation has a ruler, and rulers belong to dynasties you can follow through family trees across generations. A chronicle and detailed statistics record what happens.

Walk the world

Step down anywhere on land to explore a nation’s streets in first person. What you encounter reflects what that nation knows: people ride camels and oxen where horses have not been tamed, carts do not appear before the wheel, and weapons become available with their discoveries. You can talk to locals, trade, take quests, work at docks or railways, and captain an airship. You can also break the law and flee the police before your wanted level reaches five stars.

Transport spans the eras, including riders, caravans, carts, cars, steam engines, maglev trains, sailing ships, container ships, airships, planes, helicopters and tanks at military bases. You can ride any of these vehicles yourself.

Fight wars

Wars play out on the map as fleets clash at sea and armies meet at borders, rather than as numbers in a table. You can enter any battle, from clashes involving knights and crossbowmen to muskets and broadsides, tanks and rocket launchers. Missile and nuclear strikes leave ruins and radiation, and can bring nuclear winter.

Scenarios and tools

The game includes 13 scenarios, natural disasters, nuclear weapons and nuclear winter. A built-in add-on editor supports creating maps, scenarios, animals, models and balance changes, with Steam Workshop support.