Vilmonic - Evolve Pixel Life

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3.7
109 reviews
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Everyone
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About this game

Don't be fooled by the SUPER CUTE look, Vilmonic is a deep and complex ARTIFICIAL LIFE SIMULATOR!

Vilmonic is a living virtual world.
Your goal is to bring life back from the brink of extinction...
Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms whose pixels and color have meaning. Experiment with natural selection and artificial selection. Craft tools, construct buildings and change the environment. Uncover the secrets of the past as you dig up ancient tech and fend off the mindless haywire zombitons.

Evolving genetic code generates each creature's pixel-art body.
The shape, or morphology, of each animatroid or fungol is determined by its genes. Genes control the bending of internal bones or branches. Pixels cover the bones to create the shape of the body. The shape of the body and the number of different pixels determine the physiology of the life form.

Pixels and body shape determine biological function.
Hydration, nutrient use, movement, perception...
Each life form has a metabolism that processes hydration and nutrients at a rate determined by the metabo gene. The larger the life form (the more pixels in its body), the more hydration and nutrients it will need each metabolic cycle. Surface area determines how much hydration each life form evaporates. The more wrinkled the body is, the more surface area there is.

Simple graph-shaped brains create emergent behavior.
Fear, aggression, attraction...
A simple set of rules, derived from genes, controls the behavior of each animatroid. Animatroids have external sensors (motion/scent/water) and internal sensors (hunger/stress/thirst). Animatroids' brains have attraction/repulsion relationships between these sensors. It is these relationships that determine each animatroid's behavior.

Natural selection and breeding are the only way to evolve your life forms.
Unless you "cheat" with genetic engineering...
Your animatroids and fungols will evolve over many generations into new species. The genetic code of each life form is passed down to its offspring during reproduction, with a chance of mutation. Evolution is a slow process. To speed things up, try crafting and drinking a lot of sugary beverages. Toxic waste can also be useful (and dangerous!) It can cause drastic mutations in offspring.

Use observation and experimentation to learn the hidden rules of the world and its weird biology.
You must work from within the world to change the world, you have no godlike powers. Spread dangerous toxic waste to increase reproductive mutation rates. Drink sugary beverages to speed up time and get a better view of the process of evolution.

You are not totally alone.
There are others like you, but they don’t care about you or your important task. The uncaring, haywire zombitons are everywhere! They’re violent, selfish, and love to build their own cities. Figure out how to live with them, or risk their wrath!
Updated on
Jul 23, 2020

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
97 reviews
Sarah Bumpaous
April 7, 2022
I was looking for something like Creatures for android, and this comes pretty darned close. The critters don't seem to have personalities the way Norns do, but they have a similar decision making process, needs, genome, etc. Even the food you grow for them has genes and can grow into different species. Very interesting! I might pick up some of the in app purchases just 'cause they're so cheap.
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Phoenixfire 447
August 22, 2020
it's an awesome game and it's facinating I love how they're like the real world the people that are helping others ate theain character and the haywire zombitons are other selfish people, I love it but there are some suggestions 1.Can you add a double-tap-and-hold to continue using equiptments, 2.Add more tools, and 3.Can you please add a sandbox mode for experiments, and thats it thank you love the game!😊
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Bludgeonsoft
August 23, 2020
The "double-tap-and-hold" is a good idea! More tools and construction materials are planned (and life forms), and I have designs for a map-editor (essentially sandbox mode?) and maybe a gene editor... Join the discord if you have more ideas! https://discord.gg/vilmonic
gororge lester
May 29, 2022
Quite overpriced however the paid for features aren't mandatory to get an enjoyable experience menus are a bit cluttered and overlap and the crafting is tedious the controls are are a bit odd but considering this is the closest I've seen so far to someone making a game out of genetic algorithms it does that job well.
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What's new

Minor bug fix for exporting your avatar.