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Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I have mixed feelings about Species: ALRE. On the hand, I do love this janky little evolution simulator and have put over 200 hours into it. Messing with the landscape, experimenting with parameters such as global and regional temperature, seasons, fertility, gravity and so on,…”
— a player, Steam review · 249 hrs played“fun game, you can make some truly hideous creatures in this game”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“this game hasn't recieved an update in more than 3 years and it crashes constantly, need i say more?”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
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0.14.2.6
0.14.2.6 Changelog Added localizable strings and tooltips for emotion names, descriptions and adjectives. Added localizable strings for a large number of AI routine names, as utilized by the thought l
0.14.2.4 Experimental
Changelog Tentative fix for a creature teleportation bug associated with pouncing attacks. Main menu buttons are now localizable (they don’t look quite as good as before, but it’s not too bad). Fix a
Where to next? - 0.15.0
Lately I've been moving towards fatigue, sleep, temperature and exposure to the elements all needing to be much more important survival needs than they are right now. Let's put all of these mechanics
0.14.2.0 released to experimental
0.14.2.0 is now live on the experimental branch. This update does not include any gameplay changes, but instead enables the creation of localization mods and introduces new music. See the blog post he
0.14.1.14
0.14.1.14 Changelog * Fix a memory leak introduced in 0.14.1.12 that was causing an escalating series of freezes, ultimately leading to the game becoming non-responsive.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Simulation · Sandbox · Early Access · Science · God Game · Experimental · Indie · Real-Time with Pause · Singleplayer · Relaxing · Management · Strategy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.speciesgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista or higher Processor: 2 GHz processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Shader Model 3.0