Gridworld.

If you have taken the stroll (as many of us have) down the colony Sim road, the procedurally generated games road and sometimes to a lesser extent, the idle game road and found you enjoy the casual style, self drivin stories and natural events that occur because the natural way things randomly happen. You may find something special in gridworld.
One thing I love about these games is seeing how my colonists deal with a problem and fortify themselves to protect against the future. I have a hand in that but with gridworld, it is not a colony you are building for your colonists, it is the colonists being built. And the outcomes are amazing.
Half a game, half a science experiment and all fish tank.
You start with a Petrie dish filled with random and useless AI that functions as well as your unemployed brother in law. Over time however, through random mutations and natural selection, they begin to develop neutrons and a complex Dna code that dictates their behaviour. They become intelligent by themselves (as much as a cockroach) and that may not sound impressive on its own but to watch it happen and end up with a colony of unique one of a kind AI bugs that has through thousands of generations evoled, you feel a sense of amazement and pride. And when you realise you can keep evolving them, take some and place them in an empty colony, set up an aquarium for them to evolve into, you realise the value of this $1 game.

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