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The Sapling

12 December 2019

Simulation

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The Sapling is a simulation video game, released on 12 December 2019 on Linux, PC.

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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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Released6 years agoDecember 2019

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Steam news

The latest announcements posted on the game's Steam page.

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30 June 2026The 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 ab

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25 June 2026Wright-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:

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16 May 2026Patch 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 j

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