Released Sep 24, 2026 Early Access $12.99 Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Substrate: Emergence

By Petri Dish Games LLC

Exploration Creature Collector Roguelite Colony Sim Sandbox God Game RTS Strategy Simulation2DCuteTop-Down

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Substrate: Emergence is a game tagged Exploration, Creature Collector and Roguelite by Petri Dish Games LLC, released Sep 24, 2026. It has 32 Steam reviews (Positive). The Steam games most like it include Natural Instincts: European Forest, Fosoria and Fungarium: Mushroom Menagerie.

Grow fluorescent cell colonies in a living evolution sandbox. Guide mutations, breed new strains, and outcompete rival labs for territory. Every cell has its own genome, so no two experiments play out the same.

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Natural Instincts: European Forest 66% match · Exploration, Sandbox, God Game
Fosoria 63% match · Exploration, Colony Sim, Sandbox
Fungarium: Mushroom Menagerie 61% match · Creature Collector, Colony Sim, God Game
The Glorious Colony 60% match · Exploration, Colony Sim, Sandbox
Nest Rivals 59% match · Exploration, Colony Sim, Strategy
The Neeblarium 58% match · Creature Collector, Sandbox, God Game
Stardeus 58% match · Exploration, Colony Sim, Sandbox
Spirit Stream 57% match · Exploration, Creature Collector, Colony Sim
Fwoofs 57% match · Creature Collector, Colony Sim, Sandbox
Fractal Evolution 56% match · Creature Collector, Colony Sim, Sandbox

Steam data

Everything Steam lists for Substrate: Emergence · record updated 21 hours ago

Steam store

Overview

App ID4248790

Release dateSep 24, 2026

Last change number40219633

Last record update21 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: Petri Dish Games LLC
Publisher: Petri Dish Games LLC
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked 22 hours ago
Links: Discord Website YouTube

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English	Yes
French	Yes
Italian	Yes
German	Yes
Spanish - Spain	Yes
Bulgarian	Yes
Czech	Yes
Danish	Yes

All 29 languages

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
Dutch	Yes
Finnish	Yes
Greek	Yes
Hungarian	Yes
Malay	Yes
Japanese	Yes
Korean	Yes
Norwegian	Yes
Polish	Yes
Portuguese - Brazil	Yes
Portuguese - Portugal	Yes
Romanian	Yes
Russian	Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes
Spanish - Latin America	Yes
Swedish	Yes
Thai	Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes
Turkish	Yes
Ukrainian	Yes
Vietnamese	Yes

Windows Linux

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Single-playerFamily Sharing

Prices

Price · US$12.99

On sale0 of 41regions right now

Lowest seen · US$12.99Oct 23, 2026

Checked2 hours agoin 41 regions

Costa Rica₡CRC

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Patches

Build	Branch	Updated
26193141	experimental	Oct 25, 2026
26193141	snapshot	Oct 25, 2026
26167637	snapshot	Oct 24, 2026
26151546	public	Oct 23, 2026
26094701	experimental	Oct 21, 2026
26016052	previous	Oct 17, 2026

Packages & DLC

ID	Name	Games	Price (US)
1487219	Substrate: Emergence	1	$12.99
90036 Bundle	🧬 Genome Guardian 2 × Substrate Emergence 🦠	2	$18.70

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
4248791	— English	Windows	245.3 MB	138.3 MB	5171246319429879523
4248792	—	Linux	259.0 MB	141.6 MB	5236022483900911836

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	26151546	Oct 23, 2026	Open
experimental Experimental builds	26193141	Oct 25, 2026	Open
snapshot Snapshot of active hotfix branch	26193141	Oct 25, 2026	Open
previous Previous Stable Version	26016052	Oct 17, 2026	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Substrate Emergence

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
Substrate-Emergence.exe		Windows	Windows
LINUX/Substrate-Emergence.x86_64		Linux	Linux

Space per player190.7 MB

Filesup to 10,000

Save locations7

Root	Path	Pattern	Systems
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All
gameinstall	SavesDir	*.sav	All

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Update history

Oct 25, 2026 · 16:21 #40219633
- depots.4248791.manifests.experimental.download ~~141804768~~ → 145065936
- depots.4248791.manifests.experimental.gid ~~3267997356629799160~~ → 2403680695758855627
- depots.4248791.manifests.experimental.size ~~253891839~~ → 257244571
- depots.4248791.manifests.snapshot.download ~~145056784~~ → 145065936
- depots.4248791.manifests.snapshot.gid ~~4613539609453742846~~ → 2403680695758855627
- depots.4248791.manifests.snapshot.size ~~257226856~~ → 257244571
- depots.4248792.manifests.experimental.download ~~145230768~~ → 148524352
- depots.4248792.manifests.experimental.gid ~~4150718199150769614~~ → 1423250839611860865
- depots.4248792.manifests.experimental.size ~~268184287~~ → 271636283
- depots.4248792.manifests.snapshot.download ~~148512752~~ → 148524352
- depots.4248792.manifests.snapshot.gid ~~619449066932210690~~ → 1423250839611860865
- depots.4248792.manifests.snapshot.size ~~271589000~~ → 271636283
- and 6 more

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Substrate: Emergence

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Americas 10

Europe 5

CIS 4

Asia-Pacific 15

Middle East & Africa 7

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