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PolyPine

A forest simulator where you grow trees and create habitats for animals, plants and insects. Click on animals to make them poop, hunt, dig, cut and twerk! Start with a few basic seeds and attempt to grow a thriving ecosystem.

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March 31, 2025
1 year and 124 days ago
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About the Game

Create your own cozy forest!

Plant Seeds and Watch Them Grow

Experience the full lifecycle of trees: seed, sapling, adult tree, dead tree and fallen trunk. Each step creates a different habitat for other plants and animals.

Fill Your Forest with Animals

Each animal has specific habitat needs you have to fullfill before adding them. Squirrels need trees, butterflies need flowers etc.

Click Animals to Make Them Poop and More

Clicking on animals trigger different behaviors that influence the forest ecosystem: Moose poop, fertilizing the soil. Voles eat tree roots, damaging the tree. Foxes hunt other animals.

Adapt to the Terrain or Terraform It to Your Needs

Create forests in diverse terrains including hills, lakes, mountains, fjords and wetlands. Terraform the terrain if you want even more control.

Survive Natural Disasters

Forest fires, storms and bark beetle swarms affect the forest in various ways. Can you use them to your advantage and create a thriving ecosystem?