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Games like The Sapling
Wessel Stoop · 2019 · 89 % positive of 1,494
24 games that play like The Sapling and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Creatura, Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution and Equilinox.
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At a glance
What games like The Sapling have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Sapling: Sandbox (18 of 24), Science (10) and Nature (10).
- They came out between 2008 and 2026, 13 of them after The Sapling (2019).
- Best rated by Steam players: Cloud Gardens (95 % positive of 2,214).
- Equilinox both plays and looks like The Sapling.
By gameplay
Plays like The Sapling
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Creatura
67 % positive of 213
Shared: Life Sim · Sandbox · Science
Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
74 % positive of 958
Shared: Sandbox · Science · God Game
Equilinox
92 % positive of 2,949
Shared: Sandbox · God Game · Nature
Ecosystem
78 % positive of 534
Shared: Life Sim · Sandbox · Science
Thrive
92 % positive of 1,327
Shared: Sandbox · Science · Nature
Birthdays the Beginning
63 % positive of 939
Shared: Sandbox · God Game · Simulation
Grow: Song of the Evertree
81 % positive of 2,402
Shared: Life Sim · Sandbox · Nature
Earthtongue
89 % positive of 206
Shared: Sandbox · God Game · Nature
PolyPine
95 % positive of 190
Shared: Sandbox · God Game · Nature
Gridworld
84 % positive of 224
Shared: Life Sim · Sandbox · Science
SPORE™
92 % positive of 66,120
Shared: Sandbox · Science · God Game
Tyto Ecology
75 % positive of 429
Shared: Science · God Game · Nature
More matches
- Blossom: The Seed of Life88 % positive of 1,144
- Eco81 % positive of 13,212Shared: Sandbox · Science · Nature
- Cloud Gardens95 % positive of 2,214Shared: Sandbox · Nature · Procedural Generation
- Kasi96 % positive of 179Shared: Life Sim · Sandbox · Simulation
- Bonsai75 % positive of 305Shared: Simulation · Casual · Indie
- Simultree87 % positive of 148
- Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator76 % positive of 1,261Shared: Sandbox · Nature · Simulation
- DinoSystem88 % positive of 313Shared: Simulation · Dinosaurs · Survival
- Garden In!87 % positive of 383Shared: Sandbox · Nature · Simulation
- Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar90 % positive of 253Shared: Life Sim · Sandbox · Science
- Natural Instincts: European Forest48 % positive of 274Shared: Sandbox · Science · God Game
- Saurian60 % positive of 1,753Shared: Simulation · Dinosaurs · Open World
By look
Looks like The Sapling
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Tenderfoot Tactics
83 % positive of 251
AER Memories of Old
85 % positive of 7,377
Equilinox
92 % positive of 2,949
Penko Park
98 % positive of 578
Paper Beast - Folded Edition
83 % positive of 187
Viridi
91 % positive of 9,320
Blind Trust
52 % positive of 1,462
OrbusVR: Reborn
76 % positive of 1,195
Paradise Marsh
95 % positive of 475
Garden of the Sea (VR)
93 % positive of 666
Virtual Virtual Reality
91 % positive of 644
Museum of Other Realities
90 % positive of 424
More matches
- Beasts of Maravilla Island88 % positive of 438
- Mulaka90 % positive of 180
- Animal Fight Club80 % positive of 288
- Smushi Come Home99 % positive of 2,211
- Hyperbolica82 % positive of 1,259
- Shape of the World78 % positive of 389
- Crest - an indirect god sim65 % positive of 373
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds88 % positive of 87,012
- That Dragon, Cancer89 % positive of 1,478
- The RPG Engine83 % positive of 290
- Of Life and Land87 % positive of 263
- Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends89 % positive of 23,690
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.