Spring
Winter cover recedes, the canopy returns to green, and the growing year begins again.
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A living prehistoric world
EvolveFirst Age
Survive a world that keeps changing.
A real landmass built from 50 cm micro-voxels, its size chosen when you create the world and bounded by ocean rather than an endless procedural treadmill. Fell trees, divert water, read the weather, and grow food before winter closes in. You begin with nothing but the landscape, the wildlife, and what you can make with your own hands.
A Place With An Edge
One landmass, not an endless treadmill
Every world is finite by design. Its size is fixed the moment you create it, anywhere from a small island to a landmass well over a hundred kilometres across, and natural ocean marks where it ends rather than a wall or a loading screen. A place with real edges is a place worth learning, crossing, defending, and eventually calling home.
4–131 kmWorld size, chosen at creation
OceanMarks every border, not a wall
One seedThe same island every time you load it
Every size is square and ocean-bounded, generated once from your world's seed — the same island, in the same place, for as long as that save exists.
The in-game map: generated from the world itself, pannable and zoomable, with your position always marked on it.
A Living Year
Survival changes with the seasons
The calendar isn't just a colour filter. Weather actually changes the land, what grows depends on that, and every season leaves you prepping for the next one.
Summer
Plant, water, and build a food reserve while the warm season keeps the land productive.
Autumn
Deciduous trees turn at different times as the last reliable harvests warn that winter is close.
Winter
Rain becomes wind-driven snow. Cover builds on exposed ground and foliage, most crops stop growing, and frost kills anything still standing in the field.
In active development
Farming
From wild food to a winter store
Farming isn't a separate system bolted onto survival, it grows straight out of it. The rain that chills you standing out in the open is the same rain watering your field, and the winter that shuts the valley down is what stops your crops growing too.
Twelve sown crops make up the First Age farming roster. Each one only grows in its season, and winter frost kills everything still in the field except evergreen holly — which is poisonous.
A field reads the world around it
Rain
Sky-exposed farmland drinks from passing weather.
Nearby water
A river or pond can passively irrigate a close plot.
Watering can
Fire clay into a vessel and carry water where the land is dry.
- 01
Choose the wild
Keep a wild bush for renewable berries, or destroy it for a chance at species-specific seeds.
- 02
Till and sow
Work dirt or grass into farmland with a stone hoe, then sow a seed into the prepared ground.
- 03
Follow the water
Rain, nearby water, and a fired-clay watering can all feed the same farmland moisture.
- 04
Harvest the season
Crops climb through visible stages in season. Berry and leafy plants keep producing; roots, grain and gourds come up in one pull. Leave them standing into winter and frost will take them.
What grows when
Growth only advances in the seasons marked below. Out of season a crop pauses; once winter frost sets in, every plant except poisonous holly withers where it stands.
| Crop | Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter | Frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blueberry Crop | Idle | Grows | Idle | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Raspberry Crop | Idle | Grows | Idle | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Carrot Crop | Grows | Grows | Idle | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Emmer Wheat | Grows | Grows | Idle | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Onion Crop | Grows | Grows | Idle | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Cranberry Crop | Idle | Idle | Grows | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Elderberry Crop | Idle | Idle | Grows | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Cabbage Crop | Grows | Idle | Grows | Idle | Dies at -5°C |
 Turnip Crop | Grows | Idle | Grows | Idle | Dies at -5°C |
 Blackberry Crop | Idle | Grows | Grows | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Pumpkin Crop | Idle | Grows | Grows | Idle | Dies at -2°C |
 Holly CropPoisonous | Grows | Grows | Grows | Grows | Survives winter |
A Simulation, Not a Stage
Nothing is just scenery
The world runs on interacting systems, not scripted set dressing. Your choices actually leave marks on it, and sometimes that means watching something you built come down.
Trees fall
Cut through a trunk and the whole tree gives way, leaving grounded wood to recover.
Water seeks openings
Break into the edge of a pool and water moves into the space you exposed.
Structures need support
Shelter is built from ordinary world blocks. Remove the wrong support and the structure collapses.
Exposure reaches your body
Rain and wind build up wetness and cold if you're stuck outside. A solid roof is what actually keeps the weather off you.
The Core Loop
From nothing to a home
- 01
Spawn with nothing
Pick up your first stick and stone.
- 02
Knap a tool
Strike stone into blades, axes and points.
- 03
Make fire
Warmth, light, and a way to cook what you gather.
- 04
Gather & hunt
Forage the wild and read the movement of prehistoric animals.
- 05
Build shelter
Raise mud and wood walls before night and cold set in.
- 06
Put down roots
Till, sow, harvest, and build a reserve for winter.
Character Conditioning
Your body is the character sheet
There's no experience bar and no skill tree. Three physical traits build up from what you actually do and eat, and fall off if you stop, and between them they set how much you can push yourself and how much punishment you can take.
Strength
Grows from sustained, genuine physical effort. It raises how hard you can push before you're spent.
Toughness
Builds from good nutrition and time spent healthy. It sets how much your body can absorb.
Weight
Tracks what you've actually been eating over time. Only neglect moves it — death never touches it.
Death costs you something real
Die, and a share of the strength and toughness you've earned above a fresh spawn gets knocked back, never all of it, and never your weight. A long-lived character has something real to lose, and a real cost to earn it back, without a full wipe.
A life-history graph on your character sheet tracks the whole arc, death markers included.
Work in progress
Prehistoric Wildlife
Dinosaurs live here too
They're participants in the simulation, not background decoration. Herds and predators don't just circle their spawn point, each species has its own home range and actually moves through it, so a herd you passed an hour ago may be grazing the next valley by the time you come back. Herds flee together, packs share alarm, and every hunt is a real choice between coming away with meat and materials or ending up as someone else's meal. These renders are still in development, straight out of the game's creature prototype pipeline.
Raptor
Ceratopsian
Sauropod
Trex
Gallimimus
Spinosaurus
Dilophosaurus
Stegosaurus
Tribes & Territory
Plant a totem. Claim a homeland.
Evolve is a shared, persistent world from day one, you can play it alone, but it's built to be played with, and against, other people. A tribe's totem claims the surrounding land, and while it stands, only members of that tribe can build, break, or reshape anything inside its boundary.
Turn wilderness into home
Claimed land gives your tribe protected ground for shelter, stores, farms, and everything needed to endure the seasons together.
In PvP, land is gold
A valuable claim makes your totem a target. Rival players will test its borders, and wild dinosaurs are already stalking the world beyond them, so you'd better be ready to defend what's yours.
The First Age
Start with stone. Build a life.
Progress is physical: knowledge, tools, shelter, and a home that exists in the world rather than on an upgrade screen.
Shape tools by hand
Knap stone into working edges, then assemble the tools that unlock shelter, hunting, and cultivation.
Fire changes everything
A flame gives you warmth, light, cooked food, and fired clay, and it's really where everything else starts.
Read a living ecosystem
Animals herd, flee, hunt, share danger, and actually go somewhere. Approach a herd from the wrong direction and the whole group may react.
Your world remembers
A deterministic landscape streams in around you inside real, ocean-bound edges, and preserves the home you carve into it.
Coming soon on Steam
Wishlist Evolve - First Age to get notified when Early Access begins. I'm still building in the open if you want to see how the world takes shape.