Released Aug 7, 2026 Early Access $15.99 Positive Not counted on Steam profiles yet

World Climate Lab

By World Climate Lab Dev · published by None

SimulationSoftwareSandbox Space Sim Exploration Immersive Sim 3D 1980s 1990'sNatureSci-fiIndie

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World Climate Lab is a game tagged Simulation, Software and Sandbox by World Climate Lab Dev, released Aug 7, 2026. It has 14 Steam reviews (Positive). The Steam games most like it include Solar System Simulator, Super Starship and SimpleRockets.

World Climate Lab is a real-time planetary climate simulator. Import your own terrain or sculpt a world in the topography editor, then watch a living climate emerge from physics: winds, oceans, cloud bands and ice. Every climate is calculated, not painted.

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Solar System Simulator 82% match · Simulation, Software, Sandbox
Super Starship 76% match · Simulation, Space Sim, Exploration
SimpleRockets 74% match · Simulation, Sandbox, Space Sim
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Planet Architect 72% match · Simulation, Sandbox, Space Sim
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A Hole In Space 72% match · Simulation, Sandbox, Space Sim
Absolute Sol 71% match · Simulation, Sandbox, 3D
Battlecruiser Generations 70% match · Simulation, Sandbox, Space Sim

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Everything Steam lists for World Climate Lab · record updated 17 hours ago

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Overview

App ID4875150

Release dateAug 7, 2026

Last change number40102852

Last record update17 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: World Climate Lab Dev
Publisher: None
Steam profile: Not counted yet: Steam is still getting to know this game, so it doesn't add to game counts or achievement totals · checked 18 hours ago

Windows 64-bit

Single-playerFamily Sharing

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Price · US$15.99

On sale0 of 41regions right now

Lowest seen · US$15.99Oct 23, 2026

Checked21 hours agoin 41 regions

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Patches

Oct 14, 2026 World Climate Lab 0.1.10
World Climate Lab 0.1.10 Fixed Worlds no longer freeze over at around 5% of the settle when the first year starts far from balance. Tidally locked worlds no longer get far too much rain under their sun. Big storms now build thick, bright c…
Oct 11, 2026 Climate Model choice (Fast / Detailed) and crash fixes
Climate Model choice on the welcome screen and in Settings. Fast is the model you had; Detailed adds the deep ocean and takes three to four times longer to settle. Settle starts from the world’s own star, tilt and orbit. Cool-star worlds n…
Oct 11, 2026 World Climate Lab 0.1.8 update
Fixed worlds with short years are classed as deserts. Rain was counted per month of the planet’s own year, so a planet that circles its star in a few weeks never reached the thresholds for a wet climate, no matter how much it rained. Rain …
Oct 5, 2026 World Climate Lab 0.1.7
World Climate Lab 0.1.7 ADDED Export Climate Data saves every climate map as numbers rather than colours, for analysis and for other software: temperature, precipitation, rainfall, snowfall, soil water, snow and ice cover and elevation, ye…
Oct 4, 2026 tiny spelling check
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Oct 4, 2026 Hotfix 0.16
World Climate Lab 0.1.6 Added Framed exports can name each climate zone in the key as well as give its code, for anyone who doesn't know the codes. Turn on "Show climate names in the key" in the Export window. Export All Layers saves a pic…
Oct 3, 2026 Stripes Hotfix
Fix for rough maps and long settles no longer grow stripes, and Earth's climate zones match the real world a bit better.
Sep 28, 2026 hotfix 2
Added support for a commonly known laptop bug affecting games, esp in regards to sound. added a flip for drag direction in settings
Sep 27, 2026 Hotfix
Hotfix: Simulation now pauses Stars are once again correctly calculated and fitted to real data tooltip misreading fixed
Sep 26, 2026 World Climate Lab 0.1.2 - The Living Climate Update
World Climate Lab 0.1.2 - The Living Climate UpdateWorld Climate Lab now runs the same kind of physics as academic models run. The primitive equations of a rotating atmosphere, solved on ten levels, with radiation, moisture, cloud, a slab …
Aug 16, 2026 Update - Climate transport, maps, and topography based on feedback
Climate simulation Corrected an equatorial moisture-budget error that allowed small seas and lakes to sustain rainfall across unrealistically large tropical regions. Amongst other model fine-tuning improvements Maps, Satellite view, and ex…
Aug 11, 2026 World Climate Lab 0.1.1 The Living Climate Update
Two intensive days of climate model development and tuning (With lack of sleep), interface polish, localisation, and release preparation have brought the improved atmospheric model into the main build. Climate simulation Improved how moist…

Build	Branch	Updated
26089432	public	Oct 20, 2026

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
4875151	—	All	172.5 MB	122.8 MB	7833298407760764371

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	26089432	Oct 20, 2026	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/World Climate Lab

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
WorldClimateLab.exe		Windows · 64-bit

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Filesup to 0

Save locations0

Update history

Oct 25, 2026 · 01:27 #40102852
- appid removed
- common.ReleaseState added released
- common.releasestate removed

News

Oct 20, 2026 · Community Announcements World Climate Lab 0.1.11: Energy Flow, Red & White Dwarfs and Simplified Chinese
ADDEDWhite dwarfs. Old enough stars now end their lives as white dwarfs: set a star's starting mass and age and watch it cool.Simplified Chinese. The whole game is now available in Simplified Chinese…
Sep 5, 2026 · Community Announcements Requested App Discord
A new Discord for the app has been created. Please come onboard for support or to share your creationsDiscord Community Page

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World Climate Lab

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