Cell to Singularity: Evolution 9+

Man, this is probably the best game i have ever played. It is a very good way to learn. I also like that you put it in different languages because I put it in French and it actually was pretty interesting to look at the words. I am super exited for the beyond. Maybe try making it wher you can colonize Venus of Mercury of maybe a moon on Jupiter like Europa.

So for an idle game it’s good, the progression happens at a good rate and there are very few ads all of which are optional so if you are just looking for a fun idle game this is a good option.

However I’ve seen people talking about how they are using it as a tool to learn or teach evolutionary history and honestly I really suggest going elsewhere, because the way this game has chosen to lay out the sequence of events is confusing in some areas and flat out wrong in others.

For example, I’m not sure why they chose to have features that fish have coming off of the fish bubble when those features arose first, leading to the evolution of species we categorize as fish, or why they separated jellyfish from corals when they are the same group? Or why they used a picture of tiktaalik for lungfish? Or why they left out a lot of major points in the evolution into fish like the development of a distinct head and jaws and what not. Really the evolution from flatworm to fish is missing many important milestones and animal groups, and the fish group itself should have been broken up a lot considering how diverse fish are. And don’t get me started on how they chose to organize every animal group after fish. Going straight from tetrapods into mammals with reptiles being an unrelated off branch? Really it should have been tetrapods branching off into anapsids, diapsids, and synapsids, then synapsids developing into mammals and reptiles off of diapsids, with turtles perhaps coming off of anapsids depending on what current theory they are following. There are many more examples like that but I’m just listing the most glaringly obvious ones.

I’m also unsure of why they have the mesozoic blocked off in it’s own chain but perhaps it’s just so that they can go more in depth into a popular time period. If this is the case, I wish they’d do this for other groups of animals like fish.

The descriptions that accompanied the adaptations were a nice touch but felt lacking as I felt some sequences of events in evolutionary history weren’t adequately explained. For example they didn’t explain how the mitochondria isn’t an organelle that evolved, but was a bacteria that was swallowed by an archaebacteria and formed a symbiotic relationship.

I’d like to note that I’ve only made it to the beginning bubbles of the mammal and reptile area so far, so this review is based on that and I am unable to comment on the accuracy after that point. So it’s worth observing the rest of the tree with a critical eye.

In short its a fun game but disappointing to a a biology nerd who was expecting a better representation of earth’s history.

Worm. Becomes symmetrical worm. Then becomes symmetrical worm with spine. Get for worm. Fun game