It depends on what you're after.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $13.49.
- Graphics: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Crashes: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 232 player reviews · updated 5 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 159 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
- At the moment I'm using an integrated graphics chipset and I can run this game smoothly; there's a bit of stuttering and slowness here and there when I have a lot going on in my tank at once but it's a game in beta, unoptomized, and i'm running it on a computer that could probably be overpowered by an old potato.
The gameplay loop is engaging, there's plenty of customization, and once you get the ability to safely edit genes as long as you know what you're doing, it's engaging enough to feel like you're actively participating in the vivarium's evolution despite it still being up to your passive decisions and the natural succession taking its course overtime.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $13.49.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
If you liked this one
Reviewed games that overlap most with this one.
No recommendations for this game yet.
This game doesn’t overlap enough with games Crit has reviewed.