The Sapling

Wessel Stoop

Released
Dec 12, 2019
Platforms
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Positive reviews
89%
1,986 total reviews
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The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!

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  1. Developer post

    The stream is almost halfway! Watch together with the dev in 2 hours

    As you might know, at the moment I'm running a long livestream, simulating evolution 24/7. It's all epxplained in this video: We've been able to follow the planet Wright-2b for almost a week now, and the moving continent (named 'Rupert' by the community) is about halfway its jour

  2. Developer post

    Wright-2b is live!

    Streaming evolution simulation indie game The Sapling, 24/7 for 2 weeks: We started on planet Wright-2b with a simple alga and underwater animal, turned on random mutations, and now we watch what evolves. Introduction to the project: Introduction to the world:

  3. Developer post

    Patch v13.71

    Balancing and fixes for animals Various legs besides the body now have special requirements for the animal to have more than 1 set of limbs, to make them look more natural (already in the previous patch logs, but now it's working) Sessile animals with moving juveniles now actuall