Sim Earth - The Living Planet (2009)
Story:An entire planet becomes your laboratory in this large-scale simulation game. Players help foster new life and promote its evolution into life forms of higher intelligence. Guide civilization along the path of evolution until it can achieve Exodus, the ultimate goal of settling on another planet. The basic challenge of the game is to maintain a comfortable environment for the life forms by adjusting atmospheric and geological parameters. Small organisms called Prokaryote and Trichordate will grow and evolve into a multitude of life forms. Making a drastic change is a recipe for disaster.Show more
spending hours on my old 286 Radio Shack computer building worlds
watching single cell life blossom
watching the interactions of everything
it was just such a place to spend time
SimEarth was originally released in 1990. I remember playing it at a friend's place as a kid, and while we honestly had no idea how to play it, it was a blast anyway!
This game was one of my gateways into gaming world. It also managed to get me a better grade in geology - not quite sure how I picked up on all the science and history stuff while playing but it worked.
I would spent crazy amounts of hours doing things to try to exterminate life or advance a species. It was just good time and not a game anyone has ever tried to remake