Substrate: Emergence
Short description
Grow fluorescent cells that create mesmerizing emergent chaos. Simple mechanics hide deep complexity as cells evolve survival strategies through synergistic interactions. Catalogue successful lines and culture them to develop your own unique biology. Engineer an advantage and dominate the substrate!
- Developer
- Petri Dish Games LLC
- Publisher
- Petri Dish Games LLC
- Release
- Thu, Sep 24, 2026
- Price
$12.99
$7.79
40%
best price ever- Reviews
- 23
- Positive
- 96%
- Followers
- 1,067
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $12.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
32 data points since Aug 4, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Lowest recorded price: $7.79 on Sep 28, 2026. That is the current price.