Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Eco - Global Survival
Collaborate to build a civilization within 30 days
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Eco - Global Survival launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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A bunker-building survival simulator
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Survive on an island with dinosaurs, then ride on them
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Easily deploy applications at any scale.
2015 · developer.hashicorp.com · its alternatives →
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Build the best computer, from stone tools to your own chips
12d ago · thecomputergame.com · its alternatives →
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Buildstash▲168Hey HN! We just launched open sign up on Buildstash. It's a platform for managing and sharing software binaries. I'd worked across game dev, mobile apps, and agencies - and found every team had no real system for managing their built binaries. Often just dumped in a shared folder (if someone remembered!). No system for versioning, keeping track of who'd signed off what when, or what exact build had gone to a client, etc. Existing tools out there for managing build artifacts are really focused on package repository management. But miss all the other types of software not being deployed that…
2025 · buildstash.com · its alternatives →
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Evoland▲73A short story of adventure video games evolution
2015 · evoland.shirogames.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive ecosystem and evolution simulator written in C and OpenGL, for GNU/Linux. - connor-brooks/ecosim
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Naut▲60Is there life on Mars? Don't wait for Elon to tell you.
2015 · titouanmillet.itch.io · its alternatives →
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BuildBox▲135Make amazing Mobile games and publish them everywhere.
2015 · signup.buildbox.com · its alternatives →
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Reactor▲86Build mobile apps with deep WordPress integration
2015 · reactor.apppresser.com · its alternatives →
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Build your own cloud in just 20 seconds while avoiding bugs
2015 · its alternatives →
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From colonizing Mars to "are we living in a simulation?"
2016 · rss.art19.com · its alternatives →
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Evoland 2▲62An homage to traditional RPGs, travel through time and games
2015 · evoland.shirogames.com · its alternatives →
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Out There▲91A simple, atmospheric FTL-like space survival game
2015 · outtheregame.com · its alternatives →
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Amazon GameLift▲103Deploy and scale games in the cloud in minutes
2016 · aws.amazon.com · its alternatives →
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