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2015PC85 % positive1.99 €

Gridworld is an abstract evolution simulator where you watch virtual creatures on a two-dimensional grid compete for food and evolve through natural selection.

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  • Cosy, great for unwinding
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The closest matches for Gridworld are Sandboxels, TheoTown and WorldBox. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Gridworld special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sandboxels

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2021PC98 % positive0.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Gridworld: a sandbox with your own goals, a cosy mood to unwind and a relaxed difficulty.

Sandboxels is a browser-based falling sand simulator where you mix over 500 elements and watch heat, electricity, density and chemical reactions interact. There are no goals, just relaxed, free-form experimenting and destruction.

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TheoTown

Sandbox with your own goals

TheoTown is a relaxed city-building simulation where you grow your own metropolis step by step. You plan roads, neighborhoods and infrastructure and watch your city come alive.

WorldBox

Sandbox with your own goals

A pixel-art god sandbox where you shape worlds, watch civilizations rise, and intervene with miracles or disasters. The appeal is the emergent chaos as kingdoms form, wage wars, and collapse.

Chunky Orbits

Sandbox with your own goals

A relaxed gravity sandbox where you toss boulders into space and watch them pull on each other and orbit. There are no goals, just experimenting and wonder.

SimCity

Gameplay comes before story

Will Wright's genre-founding city builder: you lay out zones, roads and power and watch your city thrive or struggle with budgets, crime and disasters. An open-ended sandbox with no fixed goals that launched a whole genre.

SimCity

Gameplay comes before story

The founding city-building simulation: you zone land, lay out roads and infrastructure, and watch your city grow or struggle with traffic, crime and disasters. An open-ended sandbox with no fixed goal.

Tilt Brush

Sandbox with your own goals

Tilt Brush is a VR app where you paint freely in three-dimensional space with glowing brushes, stars, light and fire. It's less a game than a relaxing creative tool with no goals or pressure.

Mindshow

Sandbox with your own goals

Mindshow is a VR animation studio where you puppeteer characters with your own body movements to record short animated films. The results can be shared, making it a creative sandbox rather than a traditional game.

StepX

Sandbox with your own goals

StepX is less a game than a simple music-making toy: you click notes onto a grid, pick instruments and tweak tempo, volume and key. You can import and export your creations.

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