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2018 · Strange Loop Games · Adventure · Indie

Eco

Enter the world of Eco, a fully simulated ecosystem bustling with thousands of growing plants and animals living their lives. Build, harvest, and take resources from an environment where your every action affects the world around you. An imminent meteor strike threatens global destruction. Can you save the world without destroying it in the process?

Released: 6 February 2018
Platforms: Linux Windows macOS
Genres: Adventure Indie Simulation
Developers: Strange Loop Games
Publishers: Strange Loop Games
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person Third person
Themes: Educational
Engine: Unity
Age ratings: PEGI 3 ESRB E
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 70hmain story205hcompletionist

About

Eco is a wire-frame 3D evolution life simulation game developed by Denton Designs for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was released in 1987 and published by Ocean Software.

The player uses a mouse or joystick to control an insect, which must avoid predators, find food, and then find another insect of the same species and mate with it. The player can then unlock one of several "genes", altering the value of which changes their creature. Some changes are only cosmetic and leave the creature in the same species; others can, for instance, make the initial insect a new species with wings and capable of flight. After unlocking multiple genes the player can become a fast dog-like quadruped, a bird, a scorpion or a humanoid. The game does not end until the player starves, is killed by another creature, or deliberately "evolves" into a plant.