Ecosystem on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

Ecosystem is a colony sim, automation and simulation game developed by Tom Johnson and published by Slug Disco.
Released on November 08th 2024 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 521 reviews of which 412 were positive and 109 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.59€ on Steam with a 30% discount.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or higher
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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Jan. 2025
This game is exactly as advertised and titled, a game where you can create your own little underwater ecosystem. You can create your own ocean currents. You can add plankton that float along these currents. You can add plants and coral that reproduce and expand across the ocean floor. You can add fish who forage, hunt, reproduce, mutate, play, and display a whole host of other unique behaviors. You can create massive underwater caves and mountains, flatten the ocean floor, or create deep valleys and cliffs. You can add various types of sediments and substrates, which certain plants need to thrive. You can create your ecosystem at the deepest depths of a trench, or at the shallow waters adjacent to a beach, and everything in between. And SO MUCH more. This game gives a truly impressive amount of creative freedom. It is not fast paced, it is not stressful, the interface is fairly user friendly, and the tutorial does a great job of teaching you what you need to know as well. I really only have 2 gripes with this game: You can't add boulders/rocks and the music diversity is severely lacking. Overall, if you're somebody who enjoys relaxing god-simulators, terrain building/editing, evolution and/or genetics, then I think you will find this game enjoyable as well. I wish I could compare this to another game but I really can't think of one, it is truly unique and worth a try if you like any of the things I listed above.
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Dec. 2024
I am having a surprising amount of fun with the game; though, a game is it less of and more like a Sandbox Simulation watcher. The fun things: Eldritch Horrors trying to figure out how the heck to move in the ocean Its rather majestic when it all runs together Lots of control over the environment and creatures Environment is voxel based so you can make some REALLY cool environments DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA The Unfortunates: Performs kinda butts when too many creatures figure themselves out; significant drops in FPS Creature creation could be a lot better and more straight forward. Feels like you're flailing just as much as the creatures you make Creature Randomization is... too random. Even Mutations seem too random and don't really assist in the evolutionary adaptation of the environment; they just make it harder on the poor things that already struggle. My Hopes: I hope the dev(s) keep it going because this is already an incredible simulation and really fun to mess with in the background. They really do need to consider better controls for creature creation, or adjust how the creator determines limbs/fins.
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Nov. 2024
This is not a typical video game, think of it more like a science experiment. Like other Artificial Life games Ecosystem requires immense patience and is intended to be left in the background. Small changes can have drastic effects so focus primarily on observing and/or terraform your area FIRST and watch how life evolves in what you setup. Always save before you make a change so you can revert to when you made that change, that way you can even "fork' your save into multiple different outcomes without having to start all over!
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Oct. 2024
Love it. Been watching this stupid species for 39 generations now they got up to over 200 population at one point before a predator species hunted them to near extinction. They are currently at a healthy 40 population.
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May 2024
Absolutely fantastic evo sim that provides just enough guardrails to keep creatures functional, but still permitting just enough chaos to end up with interesting stuff (and you can take all the guardrails off!). Only gripe would be the performance, and how clunky the creature editor is. As a Creatures fan that has tried every evo sim I can find--this isn't perfect, but it's damn good stuff.
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Ecosystem
7.5
412
109
Online players
10
Developer
Tom Johnson
Publisher
Slug Disco
Release 08 Nov 2024
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