Gridworld overview

Overview

Gridworld comes from DopplerFrog and is published by DopplerFrog. It arrived on Steam on Dec 24, 2015, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Custom Volume Controls, #category_playable_at_your_own_pace, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Stereo Sound, and Includes level editor. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Gridworld's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 1 players at 13 September 2026 - 02:20:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 38. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 86% positive across 242 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Gridworld is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Gridworld has sold up to 12,822 units and has 238 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $10,111. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Gridworld overview details

Gridworld combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. It simulates a 2D, grid-based ecosystem where virtual creatures struggle to survive, adapt, and evolve through natural selection. Watch them learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete to survive. Let them thrive on their own, or step in with world editing tools and scenarios to shape their fate. Creatures Creatures appear as colored tiles with tiny subcells that represent neurons. You can see them move around, eating food to stay alive and eventually reproduce if they are successful enough. Each has a body and a neural network brain encoded in DNA. Input neurons sense the environment. Signals pass through the neural network. Output neurons trigger behaviors such as moving, rotating, reproducing, eating, or attacking. The Primordial Soup You begin with a world full of food and randomly generated creatures. Most cannot feed or reproduce, and their genes die with them. Eventually, one random DNA combination succeeds, resulting in a creature that can eat and reproduce. It multiplies rapidly, sparking a population explosion and the start of evolution. Genesis Don’t have the patience to wait? No problem, several scenarios with simple premade creatures are available. These let evolution start immediately so you can focus on watching adaptation and natural selection unfold rather than waiting for the first self-replicating creature to appear. Evolution in Action When creatures reproduce, DNA may mutate. Some mutations are beneficial, improving survival. Others are harmful or neutral. Successful mutations s…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Gridworld is listed as a game with $1.99. It supports Windows and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Custom Volume Controls, #category_playable_at_your_own_pace, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Stereo Sound, and Includes level editor, and is associated with Indie and Simulation. SteamPulse's latest observation records 1 players at 13 September 2026 - 02:20:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 38, and 86% positive reviews.

Overview tags

SimulationPixel GraphicsLife Sim2DScienceSingleplayerEducationSandboxIdlerAbstractGod GameCartoonyManagementNatureSurvival

Support and legal notes

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