Lifecraft

Automation and survival inside a growing, resource-hungry organism

Pixbits · Released Apr 16, 2024 · Early Access

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 78% of 149
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 10 months ago; Dec 20, 2025
Minimum PC: OpenGL 3.2+ Integrated GPU; 4 GB RAM · 0.5 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Lifecraft?

In this single-player, isometric simulation, you start as a cell gathering resources from primordial broth. You build production structures, generate energy, and move materials to expand the organism, coordinating digestion and circulation while keeping temperature and oxygen balanced. It is in Early Access.

For you if...

+you enjoy planning logistics and balancing competing resource demands
+you like experimenting with biological processes and cellular growth

Not for you if...

−you prefer light management with few systems to keep balanced

What players say

78% of 149 reviews are positive

Players praise the biological take on factory building and its connections to real biochemistry. Recurring complaints concern the awkward interface and unconventional controls, which players say make basic interactions confusing.

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Lifecraft system requirements

Minimum: OpenGL 3.2+ Integrated GPU, 4 GB RAM, 0.5 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Dual Core x64 CPU
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ Integrated GPU, 512MB VRAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

Does Lifecraft have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Lifecraft run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Achievements: 33
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese.

Does Lifecraft use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam