Thrive

What players should know

Thrive is a science-inspired evolution simulation from Revolutionary Games Studio. Begin as a microscopic organism on an alien world, gather compounds, avoid predators, and reproduce. Between generations, reshape your species with organelles, membranes, tolerances, and behaviors that affect how it survives. Other species evolve through a population simulation, creating competition across changing biomes. The Microbe Stage is complete and the Multicellular Stage is in active development. Later stages remain prototypes that demonstrate the project's long-term path toward macroscopic life, societies, technology, space exploration, and an eventual sandbox-focused ascension stage. Code license: GPL-3.0-or-later with a dynamic-mod linking exception. Media/package license: CC-BY-SA-3.0 for Thrive project assets, subject to attribution and included third-party notices. Attribution and distribution: Thrive is developed by Revolutionary Games Studio and its contributors. Code is GPL-3.0-or-later with the project's stated mod-linking exception. Project assets are CC-BY-SA-3.0 with included attribution and third-party notices. NeonRoof links to the official download page and does not imply endorsement. Independent catalog listing. NeonRoof is not affiliated with or endorsed by this project's developers. Downloads are provided by the project's official distribution source.

Game modes

Single-player

Languages

English with community translations available through the official project

Controls

Keyboard and mouse; current builds include controller input support for core movement and interface actions

Before you install

Gameplay and presentation