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77%44777% positive reviews, Mostly Positive across 447 reviews·Nature · Open World
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Plant a tree, watch the forest grow. Wild Souls is a chill ecosystem sim with no time pressure, inspired by Don't Starve and Zoo Tycoon. Build your own world like you would a garden, experiment which animals and plant species can live together, manage and balance the populations, write YOUR stories.
Plant a tree, watch the forest grow. Wild Souls is a chill ecosystem sim with no time pressure, inspired by Don't Starve and Zoo Tycoon. Build your own world like you would a garden, experiment which animals and plant species can live together, manage and balance the populations, write YOUR stories. You start as a Souls Keeper : a being with the power to gather the souls of recently deceased animals and plants. Those souls can be offered a new life, in a new body. But which body ? You decide. Decide which species you're gonna choose to build your own world, plan ahead, improvise, experiment. As you learn the specific needs of each species, you'll get closer to a perfectly balanced ecosystem : follow the bloodines of the creatures you added, watch their offsprings grow, and witness the stories of their lifes. A mysterious guide will show you the way

Plant a proud willow by a river. It may die, put down by a beaver or the thunder. Or survive long enough to become the elder of a massive forest, shelter to many forest-dwellers animals... What will it's story looks like ?
Seasons will change the look of the landscape :



Fire is a dangerous hasard, animals will flee before it, but some may not be that lucky...

Wild Souls is in its early stage of development. Wild Souls will be in early access for quite a time (several months at least), and will continue to get updated (new species, less bugs) a long time after it's "final" release. It's an ambitious project made by a solo dev that I don't want to rush, or let un-updated shortly after it's release. If you decide to start the adventure, you and your feedback will be very welcome in the discord community !

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