An autonomous biosphere
You do not feed life or command peace and war. Food grows through the nutrient cycle, while alliances and rivalries emerge from ecology and behavior. Drag to move the map; use the wheel, pinch or −/+ to zoom, and select the same object twice to follow it. After the first state forms, use the map button or P to reveal or hide political territory.
Adaptation and new species
The evolution readout names the most advanced visible frontier instead of pretending that evolution has a completion percentage. Primordial cells gain sensing and movement, then branch into composite chains, rings, mats, burrowers, swimmers, gliders or upright forms. Later divergences keep changing their specialization, proportions and anatomy without converging on ordinary Earth animals.
Worlds have their own rules
Gravity, abundance, mutation pressure, day length and cultural potential change with every new biosphere. Local food, terrain, climate, predators and competition continuously shape inherited adaptations; survival pressure does not depend on scripted global interventions.
Life reshapes the world
Before culture, organisms can grow reefs, burrows, colonies, dams, fungal networks and fertile ground. Architecture remains late: intelligent cultures first extract timber, stone, clay, fibers or ore, then build to answer hunger, climate, predators, migration, disease or disaster.
Founder protection prevents an empty opening, but later lineages may still disappear. If the biosphere collapses completely, dormant genes can seed a radically altered descendant.