Planetary Life

Planetary Life is a sandbox simulation about shaping an uninhabited planet into a habitat for life. You use tools to alter its mountains, seas and climate, then introduce organisms and develop them into creatures, plants and intelligent beings. You can help them or leave them to survive on their own.

Shape the planet

Tectonic plates form mountains and seas, while you adjust the planet’s climate, core heat, volcanic activity and atmospheric gases. You can also manipulate rainfall, clouds and surface albedo to change the climate. Core heat and volcanic activity shape the terrain through volcanoes.

Create life and ecosystems

In the cell stage, you combine different types of cells to create life forms, from single cells and multicellular organisms to macroscopic creatures and plants. You can develop creatures from simple organisms toward intelligence and design and expand them in search of a balanced ecosystem. Maintain the balance between fauna and flora to avoid species extinctions.

Explore your planet

You can walk around your planet in first person and view your creations.

Civilizations

When creatures become sufficiently intelligent, they will organize into tribes and later develop into civilizations. You can manage and help them compete for technology as they seek to conquer the planet. This feature is not available in Early Access.