Niche - a genetics survival game on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

Niche - a genetics survival game is a puzzle, adventure and turn-based strategy game developed by Stray Fawn Studio and published by Stray Fawn Publishing and WhisperGames.
Released on September 21st 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Polish.

It has received 4,987 reviews of which 4,311 were positive and 676 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, Windows® 8, Windows® 10
  • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia® 8800 GT / AMD® 4670 or faster
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Macintosh® OSX 10.8+
  • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia® 8800 GT / AMD® 4670 or faster
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+
  • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia® 8800 GT / AMD® 4670 or faster
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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Dec. 2024
I love this game so much and it is one of my childhood favorites. i used to watch siri play it all the time. still love it to this day and i give it a 10/10
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Nov. 2024
This fuels my autism in every conceivable way. If you like animals, biology, genetics, and chaos get this game you wont regret it.
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Sept. 2024
According to simple models, animals may be expected to make optimized decisions, such as when the benefits of moving to a new area outweigh the risks, or how to act in intraspecific competitions. It's not quite always like that in real life, which is the only excuse I have for how bad I am at this game. I make more bottlenecks than a glass factory.
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Sept. 2024
Please direct me to any other games with both genetics and survival mechanics, it's such a natural pair that should really be seen more.
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June 2024
I tried the game on the first day, and I found it a bit repetitive and not too exciting. I gave it another try on the second day and spent 4 hours on a 300 day journey where my little creatures went from cats to fish to birds to bats to horrible abominations that eventually got their babies eaten by a bird too many times and died of starvation.
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Niche - a genetics survival game
8.4
4,311
676
Online players
37
Developer
Stray Fawn Studio
Publisher
Stray Fawn Publishing, WhisperGames
Release 21 Sep 2017
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