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Darwinia
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Darwinia is one of my favorite games of all time. So it gets an obvious reccomendation from me. There is a lot going on with Darwinia and I've never played anything like it. It's one of those types of games that is really hard to describe, and you can only really understand…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“I played this game when it first came out. That is how I found Introversion Software. I have multiple disks and the Collectors edition I think it was with Multiwinia as well. I have a Darwinian keychain that has lived on my vehicles keys through 3 vehicles. I have the foam…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“This review is for my experience of Darwinia as played in 2020 Darwinia is the 3rd game I ever purchased on Steam, like 15 years ago or something. I really enjoyed the game back then. It's a casual type RTS. It had an interesting art style for the time as well. Steam did not log…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-05 via SteamCharts.
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Latest official news
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Darwinia 2.4.1
Mission difficulty is respected again. Your chosen difficulty setting now correctly applies to all normal missions (cutscenes and tutorials excepted). Spirit collection fixes. Spirit Receivers reliabl
Darwinia 2.4.0-16 hotfix release
Bug Fixes Fixed language table corruption after loading a mod. Improved user experience when attempting to load a corrupted mod. Updated ANGLE to pull in some upstream bug fixes.
Darwinia 2.4.0-9 hotfix release
Bug Fixes Fixed a crash on startup for some users caused by the renderer attempting to use an unsupported color format. Fixed mouse scroll wheel not working on macOS and Linux. Fixed shader compilatio
Darwinia 2.4.0 release
Gameplay Grenades and Triffid Eggs now bounce off buildings (with sound effects) Anthills: smarter about objectives. Ants are sent to clusters of spirits rather than individual distant spirits, and an
Darwinia 2.3.3-45 hotfix
This update contains a major bugfix for the 2.3.3 release. Major changes: Fixed broken music playback. Known issues: macOS: On MacBook Pro 14"/16" with 120Hz displays (or in fact any Mac with > 60Hz d
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Indie · Tactical RPG · Shoot 'Em Up · Wargame · Real Time Tactics · Puzzle · PvE · RTS · God Game · Arcade · Strategy · Surreal (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | http://www.darwinia.co.uk/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
OS: Windows 10 or later Processor: Intel Core i5 (Westmere) or better Memory: 4GB of RAM Graphics: 4GB of VRAM Graphics API (ANGLE): Direct3D 11+ or Vulkan 1.2.160+ Graphics API (OpenGL): OpenGL 3.3+